I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I… — Laura Benanti Comedian Copy Share Image
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater. — Laura Benanti Actor Copy Share Image
I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'. — Laura Benanti Los Copy Share Image
For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious. — Laura Benanti Genius Copy Share Image
Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up. — Laura Benanti Mean 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 Adorable Copy Share Image
That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there,… — Laura Benanti Acting Copy Share Image
I didn't love stickers and unicorns and stuff, but just if I were to ride on the back of a beast to… — Laura Benanti Beast Copy Share Image
I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I… — Laura Benanti Love Copy Share Image
I'm such a goody two-shoes, I don't even taste the fruit at the grocery store. Like oh, are these grapes good? I… — Laura Benanti Followers Copy Share Image
There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children.… — Laura Benanti Actors 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 Lady 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 Bits 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 Accepting 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 wanted other women to know there's no shame in talking about it. People don't say they're pregnant until the second trimester.… — Laura Benanti Doe Copy Share Image
Miscarrying is a horrible painful event. That just felt like something that needed to be addressed. I am by no means prescribing… — Laura Benanti Common Copy Share Image
Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to… — Laura Benanti Agent 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
Everything has become so pop-rock oriented that finding a role for a soprano, and finding an audience for a soprano, is tricky.… — Laura Benanti Audience Copy Share Image
That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the… — Laura Benanti Dichotomy 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 Andrew 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 Easy 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 Helping 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 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 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
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
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
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 Finding 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
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 Able 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 Becoming 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 Bigs 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 Bigs Copy Share Image
I think it's a deeper issue on the lack of communication in our culture in general. It's not abnormal to see a… — Laura Benanti Abnormal Copy Share Image
I sing songs from the theater and pop songs. When I say 'pop songs,' I mean from the 90's. And I tell… — Laura Benanti Cabaret Copy Share Image
