Couple Quote by Julie Andrews

I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge…

— Julie Andrews

My dad would take me downtown, and I'd stand backstage and watch him in the vaudeville pit band. I was 6 or 7. He…

— Joel Grey

I had an idyllic childhood and when my parents bought me a Punch and Judy Show and a ventriloquist's dummy, I'd perform anywhere, anytime.…

— Ken Dodd

My two brothers and I grew up in the theater, going everywhere with my parents when they performed.

— Demian Bichir

I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightclub shows when I was…

— Lainie Kazan

My mother and stepfather were in Vaudeville. And my stepfather was an alcoholic. It was a lot of roller coaster times. But it's all…

— Julie Andrews

I was always performing as a child, and then I was determined to act and sing and dance, so I travelled for miles every…

— Kelly Brook

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

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

— Russell Crowe

My family was going back to England to visit my mother's grandmother, who was very ill. We went up to Liverpool and I met…

— Kim Cattrall

I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I…

— Steve Martin

I was born into a world where a lot of people who came to the house were performers.

— Irwin Thomas