Comfortable Quote by Amy Sherald

I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and I honestly started performing for my family when I was around three. I would jump up on…

— Erika Jayne

I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was…

— Skylar Grey

I knew from a young age that I wanted to perform. I went to an arts camp called Brookdale Arts Camp, in New Jersey,…

— Melissa Rauch

I grew up in church. That's how most young African American musicians learn how to perform. You could be six years old and playing…

— Robert Glasper

I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always memorized everyone's parts,…

— Carrie Preston

I began working on stage in Atlanta when I was 3, doing a dance act with the Ragamuffins of Rhythm. Later I became a…

— Nipsey Russell

I always knew I wanted to be a performer, and my mother started taking me to dance classes when I was five. My mother…

— Jennifer Lopez

I didn't spend my childhood trying to be a performer; it was a big surprise to me that this was what I was doing.…

— Roisin Murphy

While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

— Hannah Simone

I worked with my parents on the stage in production numbers since I was 4, but I never really gave much thought to being…

— Helen Reddy

From elementary school on up through junior high school, I loved to perform. But I put it all away during high school and college.…

— Lisa Kudrow

I grew up performing in theatre.

— Valorie Curry