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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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.' "

" 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 think people feel completely stunted without an agent, but there's a lot of auditions to be had without one and a lot to be learned before you take an agent 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. "

" At 'Wicked,' they are really great about letting you make your own choices with the roles. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 'Dogfight' is my favorite thing I've ever worked on. It's such a special piece, and I'm so close to the character of Rose. I loved doing it every night. "

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

" '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. "

" As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. I loved that they each covered the same songs and interpreted them totally differently. I thought that was so cool. They could each paint their own picture of that moment. "

" I loved 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, too. "

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

" 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 teach a lot of young musical theatre actors, and I notice that a lot of them say that they have a harder time connecting the classic repertoire. "

" I have a big persona onstage sometimes, but offstage, I'm super shy. Like, I don't want to perform for people - I'd rather die than sing in a room for someone. "

" I'm good friends with Matt Morrison. "

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

" 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 have a major love for musical theatre, including a lot of stuff I don't get to do very often. "