I feel like comedy is important, and I think political satire can be really important. — Laura Benanti Comedy Copy Share Image
I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
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
It's always fun to play someone who is a little off. Normal is a little boring. — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, 'Great.' — Laura Benanti Being 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 have to create opportunities for myself. But the thing I really have learned is that you gain nothing from sitting around… — Laura Benanti Do it yourself Copy Share Image
I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
There were TVs everywhere. When we weren't on stage, we were watching what America was watching and rooting for each other and… — Laura Benanti America Copy Share Image
I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surrounded by all these… — Laura Benanti Copy Share Image
Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel… — Laura Benanti 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 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
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
People don't say they're pregnant until the second trimester. I intellectually understand that you don't want the whole world to know your… — Laura Benanti Business Copy Share Image
I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not… — Laura Benanti Empathy Copy Share Image
I find human behavior to be fascinating, which is probably why I'm an actor, and I think that there are a lot… — Laura Benanti Actor 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
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
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
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at… — Laura Benanti 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
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
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'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 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 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
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
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
My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather,… — Laura Benanti Actor 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
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
