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" With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go. "

Idina Menzel

Women

You

Strong

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Idina Menzel

One Thing

Great

" I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder. "

" Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems. "

" The truth is I love musical theater and always have. "

" I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song. "

" It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame. "

" I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life. "

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

" I love my husband very much. I knew it was real true love because I felt like I could be myself around that person. Your true, true innermost authentic self, the stuff you don't let anyone else see, if you can be that way with that person, I think that that's real love. "

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

" All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny. "

" There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person. "

Idina Menzel

Myself

Lots

" I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline. "

" 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. "

" I'm a mom - I'm lucky if I get to shower in the morning. Luckily, nail polish stays on my toes. I've been so bad on the upkeep, though. "

" After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home. "

Idina Menzel

Feel

Work

" I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I've really shared something of myself. "

" 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 always use my husband's cocoa butter stuff. He has amazing skin! "

" Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics. "

" 'Rent,' for me, was a significant time in my life because it was my first break. It was my first professional job. I also met my husband in that cast, Taye Diggs. "

" A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me. "

Idina Menzel

Compliment

Know

" You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go. "

" 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. "

" I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life. "

" They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me. "

Idina Menzel

Fun

Know

" 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. "