Whitney houston Quote by Gillian Jacobs

I actually got to go back to where I was born and perform there. I just brought my mom up onstage and was like,…

— apl.de.ap

I watched the MTV Video Music Awards every year, telling myself that one day I'm going to be there, and it's like, finally -…

— Christina Aguilera

I wasn't properly performing in Canada. I was just starting out, and when everyone starts out, they're terrible. I'm sure there are some Kellyanne…

— Katherine Ryan

In 2004, I went onstage for the first time. They put a mike in my hand and pushed me out the door into the…

— M.I.A

I may have gotten my first job from 'Backstage.' I remember going to the Equity offices, and I signed up for an audition. I…

— Colin Donnell

Upon graduating from my acting program at The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA, I went to my first tap audition.…

— Vincent Rodriguez III

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy'…

— Catherine Mary Stewart

My parents used to bring me to Radio City when I was a little girl, so performing there 50 years later was absolutely surreal…

— Wendy Liebman

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So…

— Jerry Hall

I'm a kid who did stock and summer youth theater where we'd put up two shows and you had no rehearsal. I've also understudied,…

— Donna Murphy

Something always made me save myself. Either the Betty Ford Center or going onstage to perform in the theater when many people didn't think…

— Elizabeth Taylor

I got to record at Capital Records, which was especially awesome. You see all those big singers like Ariana Grande, Beyonce: they're all recording…

— Josie Totah