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.

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.

I did radio back in the era when we did radio drama.

By obtaining a sense of its place in the unfolding drama of life, set in an ecological theatre, so we can understand why it has become one of the leading players.

I had an amazing experience working with great people. I had a great family, a typical family with drama in certain areas, and that's pretty much everywhere in everyone's life.

Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.

I was always a drama queen. I remember playing in the kitchen, trying to get my mom to think I was dead and call the police. When she didn't, I would cry. I was always theatrical. I don't think any of my relatives are surprised.

You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama.

Any long work in which poetry is persistent, be it epic or drama or narrative, is really a succession of separate poetic experiences governed into a related whole by an energy distinct from that which evoked them.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion: what is left is theater.

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

For me, football is just a game, not a drama.

The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.

I'm doing music, and we both want to do some drama.

Culture clash is terrific drama.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.

I always feel like an interloper when I do serious drama. It's my own paranoia.

Michigan is two radically different places - the North and the South which makes for good drama and contrast.