Jessie Mueller

The thing I try to tell people who are just starting in the business is to listen to yourself, trust yourself, and…

— Jessie Mueller

Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a…

— Jessie Mueller

'What's the Use' is normally done with all the women onstage with Julie. Sometimes it's staged as a 'lay at my feet,…

— Jessie Mueller

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.

— Jessie Mueller

As an actor, you always use the tools of who you are and your experience of what you have to offer.

— Jessie Mueller

I didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in…

— Jessie Mueller

I think the job of art and drama is to hold a mirror up to those things and say, 'What do you…

— Jessie Mueller

I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for children.

— Jessie Mueller

I grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic…

— Jessie Mueller

I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't…

— Jessie Mueller

The thing that gives me great hope is that I think, if anything, our world now is ready to be, like, 'This…

— Jessie Mueller

I watch Renee Fleming a lot. I listen to Renee Fleming a lot. She was like my built-in master class.

— Jessie Mueller

I always loved playing the sidekick, and that's what I expected - I didn't think I was pretty enough or diva enough…

— Jessie Mueller

I'm glad to say I'm experiencing more of a conversation in my artistic workforce world than I ever have before. But it's…

— Jessie Mueller

I'm a sucker for a good country song.

— Jessie Mueller

The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.

— Jessie Mueller

I've always loved the song 'It Might as Well Be Spring'.

— Jessie Mueller

Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people…

— Jessie Mueller

I loved being in Cambridge. I think about it often. It was this great little capsule of time to me.

— Jessie Mueller

I think it's the hardest thing to remind yourself you have to do it the way you would do it. Because no…

— Jessie Mueller

I went to Syracuse University.

— Jessie Mueller

Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for…

— Jessie Mueller

If I've gotten to a point where people want to see something because I'm in it, I'm grateful and humbled. But having…

— Jessie Mueller

My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one…

— Jessie Mueller

I didn't quite get 'If I Loved You.' I didn't understand what they're saying. 'Why are they saying if? Are they flirting?…

— Jessie Mueller