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" When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions become necessary, when they aren't camp, that, to me, is magic. I've done musical comedies and enjoyed them, but subject matter that's deeper and more realistic is always what's appealed to me most. "

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" When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids. "

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" My degree was in opera. "

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" It's really important that I have a personal life. "

" I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act. "

" It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction. "

" I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play. "

" If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground. "

" Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed. "

" I'm proud to be Irish. "

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" To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character. "

" I've been singing since I was nine or ten. "

" We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway. "

" You breathe fast when you're scared. "

" Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character. "

" I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad. "

" My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas! "

" I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it! "

" I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be getting either people to let you do it or finding the right things to do in order to do it. "

" I don't want to be famous for being famous. "

" I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that. "

" By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll. "

" Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow. "

" I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early. "

" I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful. "

" In my special place, room service could only consist of my husband making me a breakfast of eggs, avocados, and hummus. And coffee with milk. "

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" With a revival, you're compared to somebody else. "

" I don't mind talking about my family and how to balance it all. But, in today's world, we should probably be asking both women and men about work and family and how to balance the two. "

" I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen. "

" I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually. "

" Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature. "