Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Lindsay Mendez

You

Job

Think

Related Quotes:

" I love my body. I love representing people who aren't stick figures, because people aren't. "

" I'm good friends with Matt Morrison. "

" There was so much emotional response to 'Dogfight.' You just heard the audience: They were so horrified. They were sobbing. They were joyful at times. "

" I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school. "

" My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought 'Grease' was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it. "

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

" 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. "

" I loved working on 'Dogfight,' but when I first read it and wrapped my head around the story, I was a little horrified. "

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

" Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I'm also a huge folk music fan - Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world. "

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

" I think I'm the person who keeps friends from hitting 'send.' I've definitely helped people go through emails before sending them. I'm a good proofreader. "

Lindsay Mendez

Friends

Good

" 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'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. "

" I've never been a thin girl. I grew up being - I don't want to say a plus-size girl, but a girl of curves and substance. "

Lindsay Mendez

Never

Say

" 'Dogfight' holds a special place in my heart, and I try to sing the songs whenever I can. "

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

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

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

Lindsay Mendez

Look

Girl

" I've always been afraid to do a solo show. When I go to see the great solo shows of Liz Callaway or Christine Ebersole, they have so many incredible stories to talk about, and their material and lives are so rich. I've always worried that my life was not rich enough. "

" When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice. "

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

" The first time I didn't get called back at an audition, I cried. My mom told me, 'We're doing this for fun, and if it's not fun anymore, we're not going to do it. So if you ever cry again, we're going to stop.' I never cried from then on, and I kept that lesson for the rest of my life. "

" I think it's important to play real people. "

" 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.' "

Lindsay Mendez

Wicked

" I've never been a bridesmaid. "

Lindsay Mendez

Been

Never

" I have a group of fans who pitched in and named a star after me... So. Cool. "

Lindsay Mendez

Who

Star

" I did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical. "

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

Lindsay Mendez

Set

Amazing

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