If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks Susan Egan More Quotes by Susan Egan More Quotes From Susan Egan You never know what your opportunities are going to be. Susan Egan knows opportunity I think people are surprised to learn that Im pretty goofy and pretty funny. Susan Egan goofy people thinking I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different. Susan Egan costume something love world My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it. Susan Egan own my-own motherhood life Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be in theatre, and it's really not true. Susan Egan new think you people Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work. Susan Egan camera great you work The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy. Susan Egan be-happy you coffee people I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What I realized, though, is that I can't sound like that, and what makes their performances magical is their uniqueness. Susan Egan like uniqueness sound listening You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role. Susan Egan yourself you learning people