George Bernard Shaw Quotes

There are so many stage actors on TV but you wouldn't know they were stage actors. And film and TV actors are going to the stage as well, so the crossover is great now.

I wanted to be a Broadway star.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'

When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.

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

You know, I love acting.

There's nothing more fun than acting on stage with a live audience and that immediate feedback.

I'd love to do something where I can act and dance at the same time, like on Broadway or in movies.

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

My vision had always been that I was gonna be a stage actor and that was it.

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting.

I've wanted to be an actor ever since I was a little boy.

The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

I started in community theater at 7 years old. I loved being on stage and performing. At the time, I didn't correlate that the stuff I was doing on stage was the same thing that I was watching in my favorite films.

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

Ever since I was a kid, I always wanted to be an actor.

Probably from, like, my freshman year of high school, I had this desire to perform and also be involved in the show business industry.

In Michigan, if you want to act, it's local theater, it's high school theater and it's going to camp and putting on plays in the summer, and I always loved doing that. There was something that just drew me to it.

I knew when I was 10 that I wanted to act full-time.

I love singing as much as I love acting.

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.'

During the fourth year of college, I heard about auditions for a musical for which I got chosen. There after, I continued acting in plays and improved.