Performance Desire Quotes

I knew I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know I would specifically be in film. I actually never thought I would be in film. I always envisioned being on the stage.

I actually have a decent singing voice, and I've never been able to sing onscreen. I'd love to do a musical.

I have really musical parents, and my dad was always encouraging, but the desire to get onstage and perform really did come from me. I'd never push my future children.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

I used to put all my doll babies on my bed with their hands up and I would do full shows for them. I'd even do the screaming and clapping. I was bugging to be a singer.

I only ever wanted to be an actress, not a star.

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

I'm a greedy actor, craving for exciting parts to play.

In general, no engineer hates higher performance.

I am a greedy actor, and I want the best roles to come my way.

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

When I used to listen to the poets in other languages and the kind of appreciation they received, I wanted to be there on the dais and experience that myself.

In New Mexico, my local church did a nativity play, and I was cast as Wise Man #3. Of course, Wise Man #3 had no damn lines. Wise Man #1 had all the lines! I stood there thinking, 'I could do that role so much better!' From that moment on, I knew I wanted to be an actor.

There are so many characters I want to play. I'm greedy about acting.

I wish I was more of a song-and-dance girl. I sang in a show once. I wish I could be in 'Hair.'

I just wanted to perform, to sing, dance and act.

My family is very creative. My grandfather played the guitar in Cuba. My sisters, my mom and two aunts would do harmonies, so I would see them and think, 'I want the attention.'

I told Simon, 'I don't want to play Oscar. I want to play Felix because Oscar is too easy. He gets all the laughs. Felix is a hard part; that's the part I want to play.'

There are different types of art, and you just have to follow where things take you. It helps me with my desire to perform live. That's something that a lot of actors and actresses don't get to experience on a regular basis.

I was always the kid who was putting on plays, and so I have no idea how to describe it. I just have always wanted to be an actor.

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

I don't know how to explain it, but ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to perform.

I always wanted to be a singer first.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

I remember clearly watching a 'Sooty Show' at a theatre and telling my mum I wanted to be up with the puppets, not in the audience.