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" We had to grow up very fast. There never was a day when there wasn't shouting about the bills. "

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" I'm not a fan of musicals. Never have been. "

" I've had one fall that I kind of hurt my toe pretty badly because I slammed into one of the set pieces. But, you know, you just get up and keep going. The adrenaline's pumping, and you just carry on! "

" I believe there's no reason why we couldn't be entering a new age of musical theater if we continue to nurture young talent, take risks, and give them a playing field. "

" I like my cheese, I like my milk in my coffee, and nobody's gonna tell me any different. "

" It's hard for some parents to give their children compliments. "

" I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations. "

" You have to laugh through hard things, right? How else do you cope? "

" Alongside the iconic 'South Pacific,' I absolutely loved working on 'Bright Star' with Steve Martin and Edie Brickell. "

" To be honest with you, most of the time the ingenue roles are a little bit dull and boring, in my opinion. "

" I wasn't ready for 'Bright Star' to end when it did. "

" Just stay present in the moment, and what will come will come. "

" We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up. "

" We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that. "

" Going to Broadway - then to be invited to the Tonys - I really tap into what that feels like now to fulfill lifetime goals. "

" Originating something is what every actor waits for. Usually, those opportunities are offered to people who already have a name. "

" My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness. "

" I love 'South Pacific.' It's got beautiful music. But there have been so many, you know, renditions of this in high school or college productions. "

" I'm just going to do things that I like to do, sing songs that I like to sing. "

" The first music that came to my ear was gospel... I used to sing 'Amazing Grace' with a very strong southern accent and a vibrato already at five years old. "

" I got married way too young. "

" It's nice to be able to go do what I love and come home - and get in my own bed. "

" My mother had people lay hands on me to cast demons out of me when I was 8. Then two or three times when I was in college. "

" Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake. "

" I didn't know I was going to go into musical theater necessarily. It was never planned. I just kind of fell into it because I knew I wanted to act, and yet I had this opera training... I knew I had a voice. "