Laura Benanti Quotes

Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different shows.

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.

I learned to stop saying yes because I then have to back out. I've been trying to prioritize my health.

I didn't love stickers and unicorns and stuff, but just if I were to ride on the back of a beast to work, I want it to be a frickin' unicorn.

I'm not a big weird eater-of-things. I mean honestly I would say like for me, like escargot or sweetbreads is the weirdest thing I've eaten. But I haven't eaten like bugs or... not that I know of.

If we had an audience to play to, the performance would have gotten too big. Sizing our performances to the camera was an important journey for me at least.

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 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 am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

I really do love the Muppets. My sister used to call them the Muffets. She'd be like, "Can we watch the Muffets?" So anything that reminds me of how adorable my sister was, I'm a big fan of.

I don't like the word "brand." When I see people creating a brand, it feels disingenuous.

I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.

I'm such a goody two-shoes, I've never stolen a single thing. I would not be able to handle it. I would not be able to live with the guilt of having stolen something.

My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around us was smoking pot.

I've always wanted to go to Austria.

I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.

For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This is my voice.

Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.

I have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around waiting for the phone to ring - you have to do it for yourself.

I'm such a goody two-shoes, I don't even taste the fruit at the grocery store. Like oh, are these grapes good? I can't even do that. I'm that much of a rule-follower.

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 met a lot of famous people that I just thought were so unbelievable. For me, meeting Julie Andrews was probably the highlight of my life.

Some people have jobs where other people don’t clap for them. I don’t understand that.

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

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

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

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.

Musical theatre is my first love.

Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.

I haven't been trying to be anything other than myself.

My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.

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.