Jillian Hervey Quotes

That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

I would love to sing. I would love to do a musical, but I wouldn't say that that singing is my strong suit.

I'm not a big sing-and-dance man.

I was a dancer and performer.

I think I'm a dancer in terms of what I do onstage.

I'm a dancer, I'm an entertainer.

Actors are born, good actors are trained. Dancers are born, good dancers are trained.

I am a performer; that's what I like to do.

I danced with the London Festival at Covent Garden. I'm a ballerina by trade; I'm a ballerina who sings by the way.

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.

I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and it's something that carries with me to this day.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

I'm a total performer.

When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.

I'm a performer.

Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.

Dancing is my passion. I started as a dancer.

I'm definitely not a song-and-dance guy, and if you've ever heard me sing, you would understand that, 'No, maybe that's not your thing.'

Once you're in a musical, there is a huge opportunity for that, singing and dancing, 'Aha!' and 'Tada' at the end of the numbers; but it's a different kind of discipline you have to go through to maintain that kind of performance.

I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'

It's something that I've always done. I started singing when I was four years old; that was the first time I took a voice lesson. I would say, maybe from five years on, I sang on stages constantly. That's what I call my natural habitat: It's a place where I feel most like myself and the most confident, the most excited.

I realize that I'm not a great dancer. I've given up the hip-shaking. I don't pelvic thrust anymore. Those were the beginning days of T. R. learning how to dance. But I love it, and I've taken a few choreography lessons. But other than that, I kinda just feel it, I guess.

I started publicly singing when I was eight. Singing was always what I did. I never really acted.