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" I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired. "

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" With 'Wicked,' I was stepping into a role that I didn't make so that felt like I had more boundaries then I did with 'Carousel.' "

" Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon. "

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" I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there. "

" 'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors. "

" People learn from their mistakes and move forward. "

" I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on. "

" I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend. "

" I've worked with incredible people that have set amazing examples for me. "

" I learned by watching Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand. "

" I don't look like a chorus girl. "

" I loved Judy Garland growing up, and I also loved Ella Fitzgerald. "

" It's been a huge honor to collaborate and create new theatre with new writers and to create theatre that will last after my lifetime. It's been in the most truthful way possible. It's my favorite thing to do. "

" When I was 12, I played Dorothy in my community theatre production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and it was very critically hailed by my school paper! "

" I think, going into a room for an audition, the best thing you can do is represent who you are specifically as an individual and what you can bring to a creative process in a room - as opposed to being worried about 'where you fit' - because that's really their job to decide where you fit. Your job is to just present the best 'you' you can. "

" When you are preparing for a role, you have a script to comb through and the writer's help in telling you about the character, and then you can fill in the gaps. When you are doing a cabaret show, it's very personal. You have the opportunity to share parts of yourself with an audience and figure out how you want to connect. "

" It's nice to be with a male energy as opposed to a female energy. It's very different. "

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" I'm a big Broadway fan and a big MGM fan. "

" I've always had a big voice, but I'm very aware of when you need to belt or go all out like that - when it's necessary and plot driven - as opposed to just screaming to scream, which I hate. "

" I started taking voice when I was six and dance classes every day - I just couldn't get enough. "

" I remember getting notified that I won an award, and I gloated up a storm to my mother, and I was so obnoxious about it, but I said to her, 'Momma, I'm going to enjoy every moment of this because tomorrow, something bad is going to happen.' "

" I knew if I were ever to leave 'Godspell,' which I loved so much, it would have to be for something really spectacular. "

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" I'm good friends with Matt Morrison. "

" I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18. "