Dance Quote by Nina Arianda

I didn't really like opera. I liked cheerleading and boys and, later, smoking. So my opera career was cut short when I was 15.…

— Meryl Streep

I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.

— Bruce Beresford

My parents were opera singers and voice teachers, so growing up, I admired musicians and dancers.

— Sandra Bullock

I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.

— Megan Hilty

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 parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their music; I…

— Rick Nielsen

I wanted to be an opera singer since I was a very little girl.

— Nico

Opera was an enormous part of my childhood. My parents were both opera buffs, and they met in the box seat of an opera…

— Daniel Handler

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.

— Christian Lacroix

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager,…

— Matisyahu

Growing up, my dad took me to the opera.

— Ava Max

I was attracted to opera when I was 15 or 16. A very rich man in England bankrupted himself to put on a lot…

— Bernard Williams