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" To be honest, being a fat girl, when people are telling you you need to eat, it's the biggest thrill of your life. "

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" As you get older, whatever your struggles may be - how you sound, how you look, how you dress - you grow into yourself a little bit more. You end up realizing the world wants you and not a carbon copy of six other people. "

" If someone puts a character in front of me - no matter what it is, whether there has been a film or not - I want to be that character, not imitate it. There's a difference - a big difference. "

" I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey. "

" For me, I want to say whether or not you believe in God - or a universe of any kind that's watching over any of us - you can have faith that things will go your way as much as you want to, and they won't. "

" We all have fears! Don't lie! We all have fears. "

" Musically, I'm a huge fan of Stephen Sondheim, and I love, love 'Sweeney Todd.' "

" Everyone makes mistakes, and we need to learn to forgive ourselves. "

" My goal is to stay in good health, and every day, I wake up and pray that I do. "

" I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go. "

" There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.' "

" I would have loved to play Atticus in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' There's no music in it, but it doesn't mean I wouldn't want to do it! "

" What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it. "

" I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way. "

" Stevie Wonder was a big influence in my life. "

" I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16. "

" When I was younger, my mother wanted me to look like Claudia Schiffer. I was like, 'We're not even German, but all right.' "

" Women put ourselves through so much. Really, everybody does; it's not a gendered thing. I think all of us are always gonna be tortured by some sense of inadequacy, no matter what. I don't know if there's a way to tell people not do this to themselves. "

" I was successfully hiding from the world on Broadway for about 25 years. "

" I'm an actress who likes to work as much as possible, so I'm very grateful for all these opportunities. "

" We weren't wearing shoes on a full-time basis until prom. "

" Music was always a part of my life. "

" Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist. "

" I used to want to look like every European person that was being held up as a standard of beauty, whether in the industry or in life. Then I just realized that it's not in my genetic make-up. I decided instead to go for the gold in whatever I'm doing and just be as healthy as I can be. "

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" I've always been the biggest bully to myself. "

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" I was born and raised in Hawaii. "