Young Performer Quotes

All those I admired as a young performer had a calmness to their comedy.

From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.

I was five or six when I joined SAG, and Equity I joined when I was nine.

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

I did my first show in second grade. I was a munchkin in 'The Wizard of Oz.'

I've been a diva since I was four.

When I was little, I had concerts on the subway, and old ladies came up to me like, 'You are so good!'

I had been working early in my life in films - since I was 11.

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

I did a lot of magic shows growing up. My dad is a graphic designer so he helped me brand myself and create a logo. So I was just rollin' with the magician crowd for a while. But I was really young, 10 to 13, doing table magic and balloon animals at this Italian restaurant.

The first one I remember singing on stage was 'Somewhere Out There' from 'An American Tail.' I was around 7, and my choir teacher at school asked me if I would sing it. My parents told me that I needed to move around the stage, so for the entire time I just walked back and forth from side to side while I was singing - there's videotape of it.

I always acted in high school. Actually, I started in preschool. I was in a play about Jesus. I went to a Catholic school and played an angel and recited some poem about Jesus. It felt so long to me at the time.

New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.

I did children's theater when I was younger, and then when I was about 14 I started doing theater in New York City.

It's always fun when you don't have to trot your stuff out, especially as a young guy.

I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.

James Cagney as a baby is not my ideal thing.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.