It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it? Lea Salonga More Quotes by Lea Salonga More Quotes From Lea Salonga Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well. Lea Salonga wellsknowsjobs I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period. Lea Salonga citiesfundamentalsbelieve I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be. Lea Salonga i-canwantforever Love your enemies... it's not always an easy tenet to live by... and I have more often than not been inclined to wish my enemies ill than well. Lea Salonga wishlove-youenemy I don't think I would've been performing this long if I didn't love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It's not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional. Lea Salonga degreeslongthinking I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience. Lea Salonga singingchallengesthinking I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic. Lea Salonga catholicablepeople There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that's all I can wish for - the next role, the next opportunity. Lea Salonga musicalplayopportunity My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run. Lea Salonga strongrunningteacher When I'm doing a one-on-one with somebody, I have to speak in a language that that person can understand, using a vocabulary that they instantly get, and I always have to feel my way around to figure that out. It's a lot of fun, and it's also really challenging - challenging in a different way from performing. Lea Salonga vocabularychallengesfun I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, its just another normal. Lea Salonga cousingaybrother I took some voice lessons here and there as a teenager but nothing too serious. I started taking it more seriously when I was in Miss Saigon. I needed to improve my technique in order to survive doing that show as many time a week as I was doing it. It's not an easy show to sing, so I needed all the help I could get. Lea Salonga teenagervoiceorder I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off. Lea Salonga six-monthspridefacts The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States. Lea Salonga europewarworld I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting. Lea Salonga singingmissingyears All the Disney Princess films are iconic and beautiful, so to have been a part of all that was really a wonderful part of my life. Its all fabulous, too, that I have a daughter that appreciates the whole Princess thing. Lea Salonga princessdaughterbeautiful In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative. Lea Salonga missingsongbook The nice thing about doing a pop opera is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of "Why is this person bursting out into song?" because the whole thing is sung. Lea Salonga nicefeelingssong The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it. Lea Salonga doeappreciationneeds I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be. Lea Salonga actorsproducersdrama
