Quotes About Passion

I wanted to be a doctor when I was a kid, but I started doing theater in high school because it was a requirement. At first, I was completely irritated. But I ended up loving it.

I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.

I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.

Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.

I've always loved movies, and enjoyed theater and stand-up comedy and I had a knack for writing and performing.

I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.

The theater has kept me alive, and it's allowed me to work at my craft.

It really is like a disease. I just couldn't get away from the theater.

Let's just say that the theater is not for the faint of heart.

My family thought it was insanity for me to go into the theater rather than to get an education.

I think of myself as a theater animal instead of an intellectual animal.

I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw 'Doctor Zhivago' every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.

I would love to do some theater.

I'm married to the theater but my mistress is the films.

All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.

I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think 'Glee' is so powerful.

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

I announced at the dinner table when I was 11 that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. But my goal changed to musical theater after the choreographer Robert Joffrey saw me perform while I was on scholarship at the San Francisco Ballet School.

It's like being a gym rat, but you're a theater rat, and then that becomes your fraternity house. That becomes your extended family.

You just have to stick to it beyond all reason and all sanity; you just keep at it. You have to believe that you've got to be in the theater.

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

I have two passions in my life. One is to raise the awareness of the internment of Japanese-American citizens. My other passion is the theater. And I've been able to wed the two passions.

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.