Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" Nerves are good. They keep you alive. "

Related Quotes:

" I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater. "

Musical Theater

" Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school. "

" I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write. "

" I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people. "

" I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with. "

" I'm constantly trying to work on the person that I am and work on my shortcomings, and I guess I want people to know that it's ok to be a work in progress, as long as you keep trying to figure it out. But that search and that discovery is what makes life kind of rich, and it's what makes life rich... period. "

" I just enjoy being onstage and relating to the audience. "

" I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters. "

" I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself. "

" My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important. "

" Everybody thinks it's going to be so glamorous, so cool, you're on 'Glee,' you know, a hit show or whatever. "

" You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little - the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind. "

" I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge. "

" Things happen for a reason, and in their own time. "

" For me, 'Rent' was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. "

" Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different sides of my head and just focus. "

" I used to take 40 minutes to warm up before going on stage. If you want to spend time with your child as well as having a career, you have to get up there even if your head's a mess. It's made me more relaxed, and I'm having some of my best shows. "

" I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now. "

" People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?' "

" It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice. "

" We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you. "

" That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself. "

" For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people. "

" I pretty much have no life outside of the theatre. I go home every night, and I put the TV on, and I veg out and order food. "

" I'm more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves. "

" When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York. "

" I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%. "

" As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty. "

" The most successful people are so original. "

" I would love to play 'Funny Girl' or 'Evita,' but I idolize the women who have played those parts. I don't know if there needs to be another version of those shows. "