James Wolk Quotes

I think my entire career path was determined for me when I was 6 years old, watching reruns of 'I Love Lucy' on TV and thinking about making people laugh.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don't mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.

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

My family were symphonic musicians and in the opera. Also, it was my era, the love of radio. We used to listen to the radio at night, close our eyes and see movies far more beautiful than you can photograph.

The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.

As a kid, I always wanted to be Carol Burnett or Johnny Carson. I love to chat and entertain.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

I love to sing more than anything - more than acting, even.

That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

I love the live performances and Las Vegas. I also like making films that are being discovered by another generation. Having been a teen idol of the '60s is great because you realize you left your generation with a smile and good memories.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.

Jazz was my first love.

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real artist, right from the bottom of my toes to the top of my head.

I love every aspect of show business and that includes both the show part of it and the business part of it.

I love the theater as much as music, and the whole idea of getting across to an audience and making them laugh, making them cry - just making them feel - is paramount to me.

When my brother and me got into performing in the late '40s and early '50s, it was a sensational opportunity to learn from our elders. Every show we played had a dancer, a comic, a juggler, a singer, an acrobat. I came to appreciate virtuosity in all forms of the business.

I want to be in a musical. I love music, and just to be able to mash the music and the acting together, it would be just incredible.

I see myself as an entertainer.

I was probably singing before I could talk. Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

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.

Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.