I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.
Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand in front of the other, keep your eye on the prize, and then get there. And then turn around and help the other people - because you're already there, so start helping.
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.
People want to go to a musical to be razzled and dazzled, so to have an opportunity to do a musical that feels serious and moving is exciting to me. Especially since people think of me as a silly, funny person, so I like to be able to show that other side of me.
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.
The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges.
I'd like to be like a hummingbird. You see them every now and then. You don't see them everywhere.
Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
If someone is identifying themselves based on their orientation toward a person of the same gender, then that seems to me to be a self-evident disorder.