Audra McDonald Quotes

I've always been interested in music. In high school, I did a lot of musical theater, and I loved it.

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

I would love to play Bobby in 'Company.' Also, I would love to play George in 'Sunday.'

I think I'd do pretty good on 'Glee' singing.

My dad was a theater actor, so I would follow him backstage. And my mom was a casting director. The moment I heard the applause and realized it would get me out of school, I was hooked.

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

Well, Mom and Dad are both actors, and I've spent a lot of time watching my mom on stage and a lot of time on set with my dad, so it was very much a part of my growing up.

I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.

I remember seeing my sister in a play when I was very young, and I remember telling my folks, 'I want to do that.'

I was in my first play when I was 6. My older sister was in a high-school production of 'The King and I.' They needed children for a scene, so she brought me in. I had a costume and a couple of serious lines that got a laugh. I loved the feeling.

'Once on This Island' is one of my favorite musicals, so to have the lead in that would be great.

I did drama at school and when I was doubling Xena, one time for my birthday mom and dad bought me an acting course 'cause I've always liked the performance side of anything.

My first audition ever was for 'Bye Bye Birdie' in fifth grade.

I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.

I started in high school and regional theater. Anything that came into town, I wanted to be involved in, because I just wanted to learn.

My brother Trev went to the Professional Performing Arts School in New York, and he used to do his monologues and stuff and rehearse in our apartment. So I used to hear him all the time doing these things over and over and over. And when I was a little girl, I used to soak up everything - like anything anyone did, I soaked it up.

I always knew my mom was a good actress.

I would love to play Lee in 'True West' and Bobby in 'Company.'

The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.