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" Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson. "
Idina Menzel
Star
Kid
First
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" Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better. "
Idina Menzel
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Me
Community
" I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows. "
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" Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences. "
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Me
Gold
Great
" I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters. "
Idina Menzel
Pattern
Tend
Playing
" I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though. "
Idina Menzel
Shower
Bad
Mom
" I would love to work with Matt Damon. "
Idina Menzel
Love
Matt
Matt Damon
" Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus. "
Idina Menzel
Music
Speak
Character
" The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming. "
Idina Menzel
Front
Musicians
Intensity
" I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself. "
Idina Menzel
Great
Myself
Performance
" If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in! "
Idina Menzel
Child
Think
Night
" We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you. "
Idina Menzel
Fear
You
Fierce
" I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself. "
Idina Menzel
Myself
Stress
Time
" With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go. "
Idina Menzel
Women
You
Strong
" I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience. "
Idina Menzel
Audience
Onstage
Being
" Nerves are good. They keep you alive. "
Idina Menzel
You
Keep
Good
" I set the bar high because I don't want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don't come along all the time! "
Idina Menzel
Special
People
Opportunities
" The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older. "
Idina Menzel
Women
Theatre
Cool
" My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important. "
Idina Menzel
Grateful
Passion
Parents
" For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. "
Idina Menzel
Learning
Power
Myself
" 'Frozen' definitely isn't about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that. "
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Relationship
Think
Man
" People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?' "
Idina Menzel
Myself
People
Think
" When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York. "
Idina Menzel
New
Warm
New York
" I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now. "
Idina Menzel
Play
I Am
Theatre
" I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends. "
Idina Menzel
Friends
Tour
Like
" They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me. "
Idina Menzel
Me
Fun
Know
" That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself. "
Idina Menzel
Life
Writing
Love
" You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind. "
Idina Menzel
Mind
Innocence
Child
" I'd been a wedding singer through college, but after a few years of doing my best renditions of jazz standards to clinking glasses and the sound of forks on salad, I thought, 'Oh God, if this is all I do, I'll never be able to live with myself.' "
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Doing
God
Live
" Being a role model is about being true to myself. "
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Role Model
Model
Myself
" I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with. "
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Support
People
Men