132 Quotes by Laura Benanti

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.

I haven’t been trying to be anything other than myself.

I’m such a goody two-shoes, I don’t even taste the fruit at the grocery store. Like oh, are these grapes good? I can’t even do that. I’m that much of a rule-follower.

I think we’ve become a TV culture where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There’s nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it’s an emergency, put your phone away.

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.

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.

I am a feminist with a capital ‘F’ .

Just because you’re a belter doesn’t make you funny; it just means that’s how your pipes are set up.

We learn by watching. That’s what concerns me a little about the society we’re in now because so much of what we’re watching is entitled, self-centered, brats with no talent becoming very, very famous for literally no reason.