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“I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be getting either people to let you do it or finding the right things to do in order to do it.”
“We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway.”
“If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground.”
“Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.”
“I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away.”
“Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character.”
“It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy.”
“I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.”
“By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.”
“I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.”
“Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.”
“It's really important that I have a personal life.”
“I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.”
“The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.”
“I feel so rich in my emotions and in my life and so grateful when I'm home and so grateful when I'm at work.”
“It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.”
“Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow.”
“I don't want to be famous for being famous.”
“I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.”
“I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.”