Think of every audition as a chance to perform and you will have fun doing it.

There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.

I was use to wearing things that accentuated and flattered my bust and waist (just shakin' what my mama gave me) and definitely not my thighs.

Try not be resentful or jealous of other people's success. Know that your path as a performer is going to be very different than others. Try your best not to compare.

I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type.

I hardly ever belted; I was a soprano and a comedienne and intended on doing mostly soprano legit roles but my first equity show, to my surprise, was Blues in The Night at The Cleveland Playhouse.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

When you don't get a role, it wasn't meant to be.

My favorite thing to do is transform. The further the character is away from me the more I enjoy it.

I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.

I think any good singer needs to be a good actor. You have to be able to tell the story.

Sufis deny the absolute reality of time, space and physical form. These things are both relative and local. They only appear to be absolute.

This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

If we don't discipline ourselves, the world will do it for us.

Ah tell me not that memory Sheds gladness o'er the past What is recalled by faded flowers Save that they did not last?

Once you start believing that something is possible, you start to let it in to your awareness and it starts to become true to you.

TV does so much these days. It is such a great platform for an artist.

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

I'm not a comedian. I don't do stand-up. I don't tell jokes. I'm a comedic actor, and approach my work that way. The comedy comes through the character.

I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.