Quotes by Emily Rossum

“Its so funny. Every time I sit down in the classroom, my book bag rings and its my cell phone, and its Joel (Schumacher) or Clint (Eastwood) going, Do you want to do this movie? - and I cant turn an opportunity like that down.”

“I am interested in recording an album because it would be an opportunity to express the feelings I have inside, not playing a character. I just think I have this thing inside me, this need to create and to express feelings whether thats in film, or in music which is an emotional expression as well.”

“I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me.”

“I try to keep myself as sane and as grounded as possible by surrounding myself with normal people, such as all the friends that Ive had from when I was little.”

“I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, thats what will satisfy me.”

“Ive learned to take jobs as an actress that is meaningful to me because Ive never taken a job for the money.”

“I think I kind of came out of the womb singing. I think I was, like, born at the hospital, and, you know, popped out, and was singing. ... Im not sure really how it happened. I cant remember a time when I wasnt singing, or banging a beat on the dinner table.”

“I started working when I was seven and I was working for five dollars a night at the Met.”

“Ive been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. Im trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it.”

“The first time that I got to a set, which was As the World Turns, I said to my mom, God, its so small. Where are all the animals and the horses and the donkeys.”