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. Laura Benanti More Quotes by Laura Benanti More Quotes From Laura Benanti Musical theatre is my first love. Laura Benanti first-love theatre musical My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old. Laura Benanti couple parent years Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had. Laura Benanti wells grateful I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had. Laura Benanti rap musical thinking Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year'. Laura Benanti mother soccer school I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too fast on the outside, but I didn't get to grow up on the inside in the way that you might if you're allowed to fail more. Laura Benanti growing-up world thinking In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who is leading who?" Are the moms emulating the daughters? In which case we're going backwards - that's not how it goes - the mothers teach the daughters how to be. It's a very strange thing to me. Laura Benanti daughter mom mother 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. Laura Benanti shoes followers two I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me. Laura Benanti singing musical television We learn by watching. That's what concerns me a little about the society we're in now because so much of what we're watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason. Laura Benanti becoming self littles I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager - people constantly think I'm like ten years older than I am, which is a little hard on my ego. Laura Benanti teenager years thinking The average age of a model is fifteen years old. It's so crazy to me. And how confusing for men; they're like, "Well, I'm supposed to be attracted to that image" - like that's what it's designed for - "but it's a fifteen year old girl." I think it's a very confusing thing for every single person involved. Laura Benanti crazy girl men 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. Laura Benanti adorable fans watches 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. Laura Benanti parent mom smoking That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice. Laura Benanti writing song school I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess. Laura Benanti les-mis princess lying 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. Laura Benanti shoes guilt two 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. Laura Benanti bugs bigs mean 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. Laura Benanti andrew mets people I've always wanted to go to Austria. Laura Benanti austria wanted
