I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct… — Laura Benanti Audience Copy Share Image
Some people have jobs where other people don’t clap for them. I don’t understand that. — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old. — Laura Benanti Actor Copy Share Image
I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not. — Laura Benanti Administration Copy Share Image
For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
I'm such a goody two-shoes, I've never stolen a single thing. I would not be able to handle it. I would not… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show.… — Laura Benanti Funny Copy Share Image
If people don't like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don't like you as opposed to they didn't… — Laura Benanti Character Copy Share Image
Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him.… — Laura Benanti America Copy Share Image
I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is… — Laura Benanti Dad Copy Share Image
I'm not a big weird eater-of-things. I mean honestly I would say like for me, like escargot or sweetbreads is the weirdest… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
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… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
The first song I ever learned to sing and play on the piano was 'I Remember Sky' when I was 10 years… — Laura Benanti Beautiful Copy Share Image
I feel like people used to leave their homes and go to their local theatre, and they used to watch ballet dancers… — Laura Benanti Ballet Copy Share Image
How did we go - in a relatively short amount of time - from Audrey Hepburn to Kim Kardashian? I don't know… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' or in the 'She… — Laura Benanti Change Copy Share Image
In LA you can't tell the teenagers and the moms apart, which is so strange to me. And then it's like, "Who… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
The average age of a model is fifteen years old. It's so crazy to me. And how confusing for men; they're like,… — Laura Benanti Age Copy Share Image
I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful… — Laura Benanti Amazing Copy Share Image
What's the worst, is when people clearly haven't researched you. One time an interviewer asked me if I do a lot of… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade.… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're… — Laura Benanti Actors Copy Share Image
I think being young in a grownup world, I think it stunted me a little bit. I had to grow up too… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
If we had an audience to play to, the performance would have gotten too big. Sizing our performances to the camera was… — Laura Benanti Audience Copy Share Image
I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
I've met a lot of famous people that I just thought were so unbelievable. For me, meeting Julie Andrews was probably the… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Maybe a young woman will go see a show by a woman, or starring a woman about women's issues, and that will… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are… — Laura Benanti Actresses Copy Share Image
I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing… — Laura Benanti Actors Copy Share Image
When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A Quiet… — Laura Benanti Dreams Copy Share Image
My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers… — Laura Benanti Actor Copy Share Image
I really do love the Muppets. My sister used to call them the Muffets. She'd be like, "Can we watch the Muffets?"… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a… — Laura Benanti Beautiful Copy Share Image
I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that has come a book… — Laura Benanti Books Copy Share Image
I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being… — Laura Benanti Being Copy Share Image
I'm 35 but because I've been acting professionally playing women since I was eighteen years old - I never played a teenager… — Laura Benanti Acting Copy Share Image
People want to go to a musical to be razzled and dazzled, so to have an opportunity to do a musical that… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
