I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

Cancer is just a horrible disease.

I believe as human beings we are out of balance, out of synch with the earth.

Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

I am not a tree-hugger and I don't think mine is an extreme point of view.

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.

I sang in church choir all my life, through elementary school, junior high and high school.

I just moved to Florida to seek out opportunities.

My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

At Christmas our house is like a Donnie and Marie Christmas Special.

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

For example, colon cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Every four minutes someone is diagnosed, and every nine minutes someone dies.

We can have technology, prosperity, nice homes and cars, but at the same time we must be conscious of what we are dumping into the water, the air and our food.

If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger.

So if people will pay attention to what I say because of our success as a group, I am going to use that.

We're not saying that you don't need coal, but when you do mine the coal there are responsibilities to it. It may cost a little more, but it is the right thing to do.

The coal mining industry is very destructive and it doesn't have to be.

I have been reading scripts, going to auditions and looking for the right opportunities.

In musical theater you have to be very big and very animated, while film and television are more toned down.

But I would lie on the floor and analyze everything. I'd listen to all the strings and the background vocals on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and try to pick out the different instruments.

I started playing in the band and learned to play piano by ear.

I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

Coal companies have a lot of power in the media, and unfortunately a lot of information doesn't get out.

I've always loved music, not necessarily just the Osmonds.

I remember lying on the floor of the living room with headphones on when I was four or five years old, listening to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.

They wanted to do a movie about the Backstreet Boys.

Once colon cancer becomes symptomatic, nine times out of ten it is too late.

Prior to that I testified before the Senate subcommittee addressing mountaintop removal.

I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.

My grandfather was in a barbershop quartet and my grandmother was in a gospel quartet with her sisters.

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.

Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

My mother keeps things in perspective for me. She makes me realize that the acting I do and love is no more important than what one of my brothers does-he works in a shoe repair shop. If my career ever tapers off, I'll go to college.

In Hungary, acting is a career for which one fits himself as earnestly as one studies for a degree in medicine, law, or philosophy.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

Maybe I can't act, but I know the gimmicks. I studied acting all my life and know what's good for me.

I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.

I'm not acting, but I am acting.

I've done a lot of acting. I'm not saying I'm the greatest, but I'd love to act, I'd love to sing.

I had a bonding problem when I went off and boxed for five years. I was over in Europe and Asia fighting because I wanted to do something different; I was tired of acting. But the thing is, when I was done doing that, I couldn't get a job.

Acting for me is not that quid pro quo.

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.

I read. It's also nice for me to get involved in schoolwork, which is a totally different world than acting. It makes me feel like I am doing things that normal people are doing at my age.