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" There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. "

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" I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old. "

Laura Benanti

Mom

Loving

" It's always fun to play someone who is a little off. Normal is a little boring. "

" For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She Loves Me' broadcast, I try to imagine that I am just singing to each individual. It doesn't change my energy other than being perhaps a bit more nervous. I try to sing to each person and right into their individual heart. "

" I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between. "

" I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes. "

" I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important. "

" I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars. "

" My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old. "

" I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had. "

" I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater. "

" I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'. "

" Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater. "

" Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals. "

Laura Benanti

Musical

Musicals

" I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.' "

" Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page. "

" Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny. "

" I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not. "

Laura Benanti

I Think

Think

" I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There's nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it's an emergency, put your phone away. "

" That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure. "

Laura Benanti

Acting

Walking

" I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap. "

" My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures. "

" I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously. "

" I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator. "

" I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.' "

Laura Benanti

Now

Mom

" I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child. "

" I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job. "

" I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way. "

" If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave. "

" My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke. "

" I always approach every role through a lens of comedy. "