Tavi Gevinson Quotes

Post my graduation, I really thought that acting was something I wanted to do. I simply took a chance and started auditioning, and I loved it.

I miss Broadway! I'm still a theatre kid, don't worry!

I grew up performing and singing. And acting, the idea of it just sort of fell into my lap. And I was a little hesitant at first, but I was like, 'Okay, I'll try it.'

I'd seen a play of 'Richard III' in Coventry when I was 15, which sowed the seeds that you could act for a living.

These opportunities to go on Broadway are the most special thing, and although the idea of doing something for a year or more is daunting, I love it. It's my church and raises my spirit. It's good for my soul.

It's not like I had big dreams to go to California and become an actor. I loved doing my shows at school and community theater, and I probably would have settled in New York because it was closer. I was going to go to NYU.

I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.

I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'

I grew up seeing a lot of theatre, and it was theatre that really seduced me into acting - not film or television.

I never thought about becoming an actor. Even when I applied for university, I didn't choose theater as a major to become an actor.

I saw my sister in this production of 'Whistle Down the Wind' - my sister was a really big theater kid - and when I saw her do that, I was so obsessed. Those were like my first words; I was singing along to the songs. From that point on, I did theater, and then I got into acting in film and television.

I've never seen a show at my high school because I was always in them.

Maybe in another life I would have liked to have been a dancer. But I was a cheeky chappy who wanted to be an actor.

I want people to be obsessed with Broadway and theatre as much as I am.

I love theater and I really wanted to do more theater.

I always wanted to be in Bollywood and the first step towards that was by participating in school plays. I would get awards for my acting and that motivated me to get into Bollywood.

I was clearly brought into the whole thing about acting by my mother. She loved the theater. She had a very pleasant singing voice, which she used to sing for her ladies' club.

If you're in rock 'n' roll, you're not supposed to admit to liking theatre stuff, but I'm a big theatregoer.

I did not come to Mumbai because I wanted to be a star. I came to Mumbai because I genuinely love acting, and it gives me a kick.

Upon graduating from my acting program at The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, I went to my first tap audition. It was for the 1st national equity tour of '42nd Street.'

I started doing amateur theatre and played Rosa Parks at the age of 12 or 13. At 16, I decided it was what I wanted to do.

I first started doing theatre, as my sister did it, so I wanted to do the same.

From about ten, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I started doing vocal shows and stuff.

My grandparents actually, whenever they got the chance, took me to Broadway, but that started when I was in high school, because that's when I realized... At the very beginning of high school, I realized, 'Oh my gosh. Okay, this is a career choice for me.' So yeah, then they always brought me to New York to see Broadway shows whenever they could.