Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show. You maybe get to be moving and do dramatic stuff, but it's very rare to be that funny. Laura Benanti More Quotes by Laura Benanti More Quotes From Laura Benanti Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them. Laura Benanti showswaitingpeople 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. Laura Benanti walleyethinking My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures. Laura Benanti motherteacherfather 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. Laura Benanti sillyopportunitymoving I learned to stop saying yes because I then have to back out. I've been trying to prioritize my health. Laura Benanti saying-yesprioritizetrying How did we go - in a relatively short amount of time - from Audrey Hepburn to Kim Kardashian? I don't know how that happened. Like did we all collectively slip and hit our heads as a society? Why are we accepting garbage as nourishment? I don't know what's going on. Laura Benanti garbagekimaccepting I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers and musical theatre performers and tap dancers and orchestras and dog acts. You had to leave your home, be in the presence of other people, know how to behave, and enjoy the human being whose beating heart was in front of you. Laura Benanti doghomeheart Miscarrying is a horrible painful event. That just felt like something that needed to be addressed. I am by no means prescribing how people grieve. I am just saying it's painful, it's not your fault and it's so common. Well if it's so common - let's talk about it and open a dialogue where people know what to say to you. Laura Benanti grievingmeanpeople 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. Laura Benanti theatremusicalthinking 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. Laura Benanti musicaldifferentthinking The first song I ever learned to sing and play on the piano was 'I Remember Sky' when I was 10 years old. I remember thinking, This is the most beautiful song I will ever hear. And that remains true for me to this day. His music is the sole reason I wanted to be on Broadway. I wanted to sing music that transports us to the most important place one can travel, our hearts. Laura Benanti heartsongbeautiful For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This is my voice. Laura Benanti voiceopportunityworld I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap. Laura Benanti talkinggivingthinking I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job. Laura Benanti dadjobsthinking Some people have jobs where other people don’t clap for them. I don’t understand that. Laura Benanti jobspeople I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated. Laura Benanti musicalpeoplethinking Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals. Laura Benanti musicalwantwriting I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater. Laura Benanti applesartthinking I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these kids. I took things very seriously. Laura Benanti adultslittleskids There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time. Laura Benanti theatremusicalchildren
