132 Quotes by Laura Benanti

I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I’m an actor, and I think that there are a lot of dangerous misconceptions about mental illness in our society, and I would like to be a part of remedying that – particularly the stigma that surrounds so many mental illnesses.

Maybe a young woman will go see a show by a woman, or starring a woman about women’s issues, and that will help her get to that quiet place inside of herself where she can then explore what it means to be a woman to her.

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.

I’ve always wanted to go to Austria.

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there’s nothing like being on Broadway.

I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you’ve seen videos I’ve done. I write jokes.

If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you're listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.

Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'