132 Quotes by Laura Benanti

I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.

I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.

Just standing next to Zoe Caldwell made me a better actress, ... He said some amazing things that I will keep with me for the rest of my life.

Food is the most basic forum for discussing things like love and the absence of love; how we hurt ourselves and how we heal ourselves.

That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice.

I wanted other women to know there's no shame in talking about it. People don't say they're pregnant until the second trimester. I intellectually understand that you don't want the whole world to know your business, but at the same time what does that mean? You don't tell your employers you're pregnant, but then when you miscarry no one knows you miscarried. Miscarrying is a horrible painful event.