Laura Benanti

Musical theatre is my first love.

— Laura Benanti

Well, I'm grateful for all the experiences that I've had.

— Laura Benanti

I am a feminist with a capital 'F' .

— Laura Benanti

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

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I haven't been trying to be anything other than myself.

— Laura Benanti

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

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Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.

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I've always wanted to go to Austria.

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I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

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I learned to stop saying yes because I then have to back out. I've been trying to prioritize my health.

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Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

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I don't like the word "brand." When I see people creating a brand, it feels disingenuous.

— Laura Benanti

My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around…

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For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She's a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.

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Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny; it just means that's how your pipes are set up.

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I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.

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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…

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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…

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I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade.…

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Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're the heart of the show.…

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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…

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Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being…

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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…

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For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him.…

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The first song I ever learned to sing and play on the piano was 'I Remember Sky' when I was 10 years…

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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.…

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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to…

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Miscarrying is a horrible painful event. That just felt like something that needed to be addressed. I am by no means prescribing…

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If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nail down the way…

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Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand…

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I think we've become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think…

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That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the…

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I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.

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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I…

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I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

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

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

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For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, "This…

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Some people have jobs where other people don’t clap for them. I don’t understand that.

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I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different…

— Laura Benanti