Kevin Richardson American Athlete Quotations

I just moved to Florida to seek out opportunities.

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

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

Quite a few movies are starting to film in Florida.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

I did an educational video with National Geographic a year and a half ago, and it will be distributed to a few thousand schools around the country.

They wanted to do a movie about the Backstreet Boys.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Of course we need coal right now, and although there are plenty of alternative fuel methods to investigate, we haven't come up with one yet.

I haven't been to the camp since my father passed away in 1991, but I go back to Kentucky all the time. I want to live there eventually.

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

The current Bush administration was trying to circumvent the Clean Water Act by having the Army Corp of Engineers change the definition of valley fill.

My father worked for the Diocese of Lexington, an Episcopal church - although we weren't Episcopalians - and he ran a summer camp in Eastern Kentucky.