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" I'm incredibly hopeful - in many ways, still very naive. I think a lot of that has helped me. My sort of naivete has sort of gotten me in trouble at times, but I haven't stopped myself from doing things. "

Sutton Foster

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Naive

Trouble

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" My brother is about six years older, and I've always looked up to him. "

Sutton Foster

Him

Years

" I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words. "

" It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it. "

" I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas. "

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" I don't deny myself anything - I do whatever I want in the moment - but I feel like moderation is the thing that can really sustain you for the rest of your life. "

" I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots. "

Sutton Foster

Show

Long

" My No. 1 piece of advice, especially for someone who's an actor-singer-dancer - a triple threat, they're called! - people say, 'What's the most important?' I always say acting. Without knowing why you're singing or what you're singing about, it's just noise. And without knowing why you're moving your body, it's just flailing of arms. "

" So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. "

Sutton Foster

Day

Training

" I used to cross-stitch because my mom cross-stitched. "

" I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well. "

" I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I don't really know what my life is right now. It's not what I thought it'd be at 37, and I think a lot of people can relate to that. "

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Sutton Foster

New

Home

" I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid. "

" Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino gave me such a gift with 'Bunheads,' and to give me this gift of going on 'Gilmore Girls' was beyond. It was awesome. "

Sutton Foster

Give

Going

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" I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training. "

" I'm a T-shirts, sweatpants, and jeans kind of gal; I dress really simply and comfortably. But one of the things I love about being an actor is that I get to wear amazing costumes. "

" Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. "

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