I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for me! There is something in my gut that immediately responds. There's no science to it.

I was a little girl with a pot belly and Afro puffs, hyperactive and overdramatic, and I found the theater and I found my home.

I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on.

Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

...and if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along - this is about me now - this is my show.

The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Whatever is the scariest is almost always what I end up choosing.

Theater doesn't bring money in general. That's not why you do it. If you go into theater for money then you've really gone into the wrong business.

Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I kind of couldn't avoid it.

I think for a lot of people that are in performing arts, it's easy to fall into the trap of starting to confuse what's real life and what's not, because to your body it's all real.

A 'good job' can be both practically attractive while still not good enough to devote your entire life to.

It is common knowledge that 87% of the problems of the world are caused by cats. No cats, no problems."Hank the Cowdog

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.

Marriage is one of the most difficult things in the world and unfortunately sometimes they fail.

To be completely honest, I didn't know 'Twilight' was a book.

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

To mock at a soul in pain is a dreadful thing.

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.