Vivica A. Fox Quotes

I haven't appeared on stage in quite a long time and I don't have any immediate plans to do so, but I'm always interested in going back.

I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in 'Big River.'

Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever.

I came up through the theater. I came out of drama college and started working in the professional theater.

The first job I got was this TV job in this show called 'The Unusuals.' Then I did a play called 'Slipping,' and at the same time I was rehearsing another play at Playwrights Horizons, and that kind of snowballed into a bunch of plays.

'Rent' was my first professional job, ever.

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

I'd love to do Broadway or the West End. I'm sure doing eight shows a week is gruelling, but I did a lot of stage shows in Sydney and I love performing live.

I would definitely go back to 'Kinky Boots' because that family, I think, is so wonderful and incredible, and my role and my part were just so fun to play. But I would definitely love to do other shows as well.

Yes, I'd really love to get a chance to tread the boards in the West End, that would be incredible.

My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.'

My aunt Marcia Cope-Hart was in 'Phantom Of the Opera' in San Francisco for quite a few years when I was growing up, so we would go into the city a lot to see her.

I just wanted to be one of those actors who works at the National Theatre the whole time.

I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

My father was an actor, and we have the most important theatre company in Montreal.

I did a production of 'Journey's End,' an RC Sherriff play about World War I, at the Edinburgh Festival. I was 18 and it was the first time that people I knew and loved and respected came up to me after the show and said, 'You know, you could really do this if you wanted to.'

My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.

I'd love to go back and do theater. There's nothing like that instant response and the connection to a live audience.

I have been involved with the Roundabout for over a decade. Every once in a while, they'd give me a call to participate in a reading or offer me a show.

'Grease' was my Broadway debut. That was eye-opening. At the same time, it was very familiar. It was a Broadway show, but it's kind of the same as doing a show in Minnesota. It's the same type of rehearsal process. You are doing 8 shows a week, but I worked at a theatre in Minnesota that did 11 shows a week.

I never thought of myself as a Broadway actress. I'm not really a singer or a dancer.

I did a show back when I was in high school - so I was about 17 - and it was the first time I was on stage. I never even thought about being an actor before that, but after that experience, I knew it was what I wanted to do.

You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'