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" I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad. "

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" I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act. "

" I feel so rich in my emotions and in my life and so grateful when I'm home and so grateful when I'm at work. "

" Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow. "

" I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away. "

" I don't want to be famous for being famous. "

" I think it can be a good idea to know what you do well and use that to open the door for yourself. Once you open the door, close it behind you, and start to make changes. "

" I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful. "

Life Is Beautiful

" The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was the least fun I've ever had, but the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I could not understand her. I could not put my feet in her shoes. I came home every night, and I was depressed. "

" I don't have that many family and friends. "

" Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed. "

" I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early. "

" If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground. "

" With a revival, you're compared to somebody else. "

" Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character. "

" I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually. "

" It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy. "

" It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction. "

" Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them. "

" I never really try to watch the movie of the things I've been in. "

" My degree was in opera. "

" I grew up on a farm. "

" I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play. "

" When you're pregnant, things - at least for me - get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth. "

" I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it! "

" Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature. "

" When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids. "

" I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen. "

" I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards. "

" It's really important that I have a personal life. "