39 Quotes by Donna Lynne Champlin

When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like me, you are constantly bending yourself, bending your voice to fit the job they've given you.

As an actor, you do feel very powerless... you are at the whim of the agent who submits you for a project, and then at the audition, you are at the whim of the casting director who will cast you or not.

If I could say anything to anybody out there thinking of creating their own content is to always, always, come from a place of authenticity.

My brother Mike is the hardest working person I know.

There's pre-production, and the second part is when you start rehearsal. Pre-production was a very large learning curve for me.

I've had a lot of therapy in my life.

I decided to make a CD that I would enjoy listening to. So I would finish a song and sit there, and I would say, 'What song, of all the songs I know, would I like to work on now? What song would make me happy?' And that's how I picked the songs.

Phyllida Lloyd is probably the sweetest person on the planet.

The toughest thing for me is doing on-camera stuff as a comedian.