Quotes About Talent

My first love was singing. It was the first thing that really felt like it was a part of me. It's just in my blood. And acting came sort of out of singing because I did a lot of musical theater.

I'm supposed to be a pretty good theater actor.

The talent that I was blessed with was really for the theater.

I wasn't that great in sports. I started doing children's theater and loved it. I thought I had a great thing going with musicals. I thought, 'I can do this. It's fun.' I wanted to go for it, and I thought I'd like to make a living doing this.

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

Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.

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.

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

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 decided at age 9, but I was reinforced at age 13 when a teacher told me I had talent. I can't say she really motivated me because I already knew. I knew I had talent. I went to the Jewish community theater and got in plays there. Then I went for the movies.'

I had no training in the theater. I did not study it but just did it.

I started out to be a painter and was born into the theater.

There was no theater program or anything where I'm from. So junior year in high school I started the theater program.

My wife is my favorite actress. Without question. I have seen more jaws drop in little theaters when people see my wife up on that stage than you can imagine.

There are so many talented actors in Chicago, I have to go see shows when I'm there. A lot of these actors, who I've seen when I'm in Chicago in theaters, are technically amazing and never have an opportunity to showcase it on a bigger medium.

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

Whether you are a star kid or not, it all depends on the actor and how he/she can get the audience to the theatre.

As far as I'm concerned, Cate Blanchett is a goddess, but she's really down to earth. She's got all those Oscars, she's made all those amazing films and she could spend her whole life doing that, but what does she also do? She gives birth to three boys and creates her own theatre in Sydney.

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

I realised that if I wanted to act, I needed to join theatre where I could improve my acting skills first and also show my talent.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

The Old Vic has always been first and foremost an actors' theatre, a home for great talent and memorable performances.