Acting Quote by Linda Lavin

I'd forget the piece just before I went out to do the concerto, the panic was too great. This was not anything that gave…

— Linda Lavin

Stepping back into theatre, a childhood dream, I always felt like I would be onstage. I hadn't imagined myself in a composer role... I…

— Sara Bareilles

I loved music. I played the piano. However I knew there was no way I could have successfully competed in that environment.

— Ashley Bryan

I had to go to an audition for a rather large West End musical set on a Greek island. I didn't realise that you…

— Mel Giedroyc

The first dramatic experience I had of music was when I was five. The electricity had gone out in Georgia, and my mum played…

— Katie Melua

I did it all, singing, the harp, piano. But I was so shy, I'd wake up at six to practice piano because I didn't…

— Jessie Buckley

I loved music and dance, and that was exciting to me.

— Debbie Reynolds

I just wanted to perform. I just wanted to perform in whatever capacity, whether it was acting, singing, dancing, comedy - whatever it was,…

— James Corden

I fell in love with the piano. I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

— Alicia Keys

I did classical music when I was a teenager, but the experience of performing a classical concert felt too frighteningly pristine for me to…

— Jon Hopkins

I do remember realizing one day that I loved plays more than I loved playing concertos.

— John Cariani

I used to be a very serious pianist, and I was one of the snot-nosed classical ones who was appalled by nightmares of Ethel…

— Robert Sapolsky