At 'Wicked,' they are really great about letting you make your own choices with the roles. Lindsay Mendez More Quotes by Lindsay Mendez More Quotes From Lindsay Mendez When you are preparing for a role, you have a script to comb through and the writer's help in telling you about the character, and then you can fill in the gaps. When you are doing a cabaret show, it's very personal. You have the opportunity to share parts of yourself with an audience and figure out how you want to connect. Lindsay Mendez yourself you opportunity character I've never been a thin girl. I grew up being - I don't want to say a plus-size girl, but a girl of curves and substance. Lindsay Mendez never curves girl want When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank you.' Then you read lines where people call you fat, and you call yourself fat or ugly, and it can wear on you. But that's also our dream as actors, to play someone else and give someone else a voice. Lindsay Mendez yourself you women thank-you I love my body. I love representing people who aren't stick figures, because people aren't. Lindsay Mendez who body love people I'm good friends with Matt Morrison. Lindsay Mendez matt good-friends good friends I've never been a bridesmaid. Lindsay Mendez been never I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school. Lindsay Mendez queen i-am girl beauty Being called ugly every day is not easy on the psyche. Lindsay Mendez every-day day ugly easy I think it's important to play real people. Lindsay Mendez think important real people It's nice to be with a male energy as opposed to a female energy. It's very different. Lindsay Mendez very nice different energy Gay men are still men. Lindsay Mendez still gay men I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend. Lindsay Mendez friend best gay best-friend I started taking voice when I was six and dance classes every day - I just couldn't get enough. Lindsay Mendez every-day day voice dance The first time I didn't get called back at an audition, I cried. My mom told me, 'We're doing this for fun, and if it's not fun anymore, we're not going to do it. So if you ever cry again, we're going to stop.' I never cried from then on, and I kept that lesson for the rest of my life. Lindsay Mendez me you time life Even though acting is my job, I do this because I love it, and when the love is gone, I'm not going to do it anymore. Lindsay Mendez job acting love-is love I knew if I were ever to leave 'Godspell,' which I loved so much, it would have to be for something really spectacular. Lindsay Mendez which loved leave something My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought 'Grease' was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it. Lindsay Mendez parents thought fans love I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there. Lindsay Mendez grow myself girl thinking There was so much emotional response to 'Dogfight.' You just heard the audience: They were so horrified. They were sobbing. They were joyful at times. Lindsay Mendez just you audience emotional With 'Wicked,' I was stepping into a role that I didn't make so that felt like I had more boundaries then I did with 'Carousel.' Lindsay Mendez more like wicked boundaries
