Taylor Louderman

“I'm a huge, huge Rachel McAdams fan.”

“I was actually born in Madison, Wisconsin, but raised in urban Missouri.”

“I am from a really small town where theater wasn't super-cool, I would say. Maybe undervalued? So, I would drive into St. Louis, where it was cool. I would go to these all-boy schools where they needed girls in their shows, and I would do my shows there.”

“It was strange to go off the path that everyone takes and not finish college, but it's been a great adventure.”

“The most important thing is sleep. My mom can survive on four hours of sleep; I cannot. I need a solid eight.”

“I was definitely a part of a clique, and we all had our friend groups, but I tried really hard to branch out and be friends with a lot of people.”

“I transferred schools in high school, so I've been the new girl on the block.”

“It's fun to cast away concerns you might have about what other people think about you.”

“When I was in 'Kinky Boots,' nobody really cared what shape I was in, and so I remember, like, fans would send me cookies to the theater, and I would be like, 'Okay, I guess I'll have another cookie!'”

“When I was ten, I did my first show. It was 'Annie.'”

“Any time you take a movie to stage, you can't do the same thing; it's not gonna work.”

“Any time you have a platform or any influence, it's really important to use and make the most of it.”

“I do think, in any industry, when you put too much pressure on the source of your happiness coming from your work, you're going to run into a wall. It's easy to think that once you have success, then happiness will just hit like a wave over you. I don't think that's the case, or at least, when I achieved my first dream, that wasn't the case.”