Lindsay Mendez

I've never been a bridesmaid.

— Lindsay Mendez

I'm good friends with Matt Morrison.

— Lindsay Mendez

I have a group of fans who pitched in and named a star after me... So. Cool.

— Lindsay Mendez

Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon.

— Lindsay Mendez

I started taking voice when I was six and dance classes every day - I just couldn't get enough.

— Lindsay Mendez

I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend.

— Lindsay Mendez

With 'Wicked,' I was stepping into a role that I didn't make so that felt like I had more boundaries then I…

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I've never been a thin girl. I grew up being - I don't want to say a plus-size girl, but a girl…

— Lindsay Mendez

I've always had a big voice, but I'm very aware of when you need to belt or go all out like that…

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'Dogfight' is my favorite thing I've ever worked on. It's such a special piece, and I'm so close to the character of…

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My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought 'Grease' was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell…

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I think, going into a room for an audition, the best thing you can do is represent who you are specifically as…

— Lindsay Mendez

I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I…

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I remember getting notified that I won an award, and I gloated up a storm to my mother, and I was so…

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The first time I didn't get called back at an audition, I cried. My mom told me, 'We're doing this for fun,…

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As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae…

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Gay men are still men.

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I think it's important to play real people.

— Lindsay Mendez

I'm a big Broadway fan and a big MGM fan.

— Lindsay Mendez

I don't look like a chorus girl.

— Lindsay Mendez

I loved Judy Garland growing up, and I also loved Ella Fitzgerald.

— Lindsay Mendez

I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

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I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

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I learned by watching Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.

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People learn from their mistakes and move forward.

— Lindsay Mendez

Being called ugly every day is not easy on the psyche.

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I've worked with incredible people that have set amazing examples for me.

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I did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical.

— Lindsay Mendez

There was so much emotional response to 'Dogfight.' You just heard the audience: They were so horrified. They were sobbing. They were…

— Lindsay Mendez

When I was 12, I played Dorothy in my community theatre production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and it was very critically…

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At 'Wicked,' they are really great about letting you make your own choices with the roles.

— Lindsay Mendez

I think I'm the person who keeps friends from hitting 'send.' I've definitely helped people go through emails before sending them. I'm…

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I have a major love for musical theatre, including a lot of stuff I don't get to do very often.

— Lindsay Mendez

I love my body. I love representing people who aren't stick figures, because people aren't.

— Lindsay Mendez

Even though acting is my job, I do this because I love it, and when the love is gone, I'm not going…

— Lindsay Mendez

I think people feel completely stunted without an agent, but there's a lot of auditions to be had without one and a…

— Lindsay Mendez

When you are preparing for a role, you have a script to comb through and the writer's help in telling you about…

— Lindsay Mendez

It's been a huge honor to collaborate and create new theatre with new writers and to create theatre that will last after…

— Lindsay Mendez

'Dogfight' was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that…

— Lindsay Mendez

When you hear you're going to audition for 'Dogfight,' the show about bringing ugly women to parties, you're like, 'Oh, great, thank…

— Lindsay Mendez