Theatre Dreams Quotes

When you're a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

I always thought that it was every performer's dream. That's the epitome of being an artist, being able to express song, dance and acting in a live theatre setting and really connecting with an audience on that level.

Broadway has been my dream since I was 5 years old.

I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to.

I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.

I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

The only thing I wanted to do when I was a young naive kid was to become a New York stage actor.

Yes, I'd really love to get a chance to tread the boards in the West End, that would be incredible.

That was the bat signal for me - 'Rent' changed my life. It took me years before I got beyond that show.

My first ambition was musical theatre, but I realised quite early on that I wouldn't make the grade.

All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.