Laura Benanti quote: "I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old."

I was pregnant, and, like, 'Being a mom's going to be easy!' And now I'm like, '...
LAURA BENANTI

When I was 5 years old, I was coming up the stairs, and I saw my mom standing there, singing 'A ...
LAURA BENANTI

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

For me, Melania represents America. We're all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a ...
LAURA BENANTI

I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying...
LAURA BENANTI

I'm very grateful for social media. I think it has shown people my true nature, and through that...
LAURA BENANTI

I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.'...
LAURA BENANTI

Usually, in musical theater, if you sing operatically or if you sing in a legit style, you're th...
LAURA BENANTI

I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy t...
LAURA BENANTI

A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's ...
LAURA BENANTI

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

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

I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I th...
LAURA BENANTI

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

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

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

I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - t...
LAURA BENANTI

I was always a little adult. Even as a little kid, I just couldn't understand why I was surround...
LAURA BENANTI

My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is ...
LAURA BENANTI

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about,...
LAURA BENANTI

There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commer...
LAURA BENANTI

I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But...
LAURA BENANTI

Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're ...
LAURA BENANTI

Musical theatre is my first love.
LAURA BENANTI

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

I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audie...
LAURA BENANTI

I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled dow...
LAURA BENANTI

For me, even if I'm singing to a very large audience, like in 'The Sound of Music Live' ...
LAURA BENANTI

If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It's easier to nai...
LAURA BENANTI

[For the November 2004 National AIDS benefit performance of Pippin , she played Catherine, opposite ...
LAURA BENANTI

[Of Yugoslavian-German-Irish-Native American heritage, she was raised in Kinnelon, NJ, the daughter ...
LAURA BENANTI

Just standing next to Zoe Caldwell made me a better actress, ... He said some amazing things that I ...
LAURA BENANTI

It's a difficult subject matter, especially for a comedy. It's not everyone's cup of tea. People mag...
LAURA BENANTI

I hate to sound like a Pollyanna, ... but in a way [the ordeal] was kind of a blessing. It puts thin...
LAURA BENANTI

Food is the most basic forum for discussing things like love and the absence of love; how we hurt ou...
LAURA BENANTI

[Since he's in the business, Chris Barron fortunately understands the demands of his wife's career.]...
LAURA BENANTI

[Also a songwriter (and guitarist), she's working on a solo CD.] It's kind of up in the air, ... I'm...
LAURA BENANTI

My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probab...
LAURA BENANTI

[Since he's in the business, Chris Barron fortunately understands the demands of his wife's career.]...
LAURA BENANTI

[Also a songwriter (and guitarist), she's working on a solo CD.] It's kind of up in the air, ... I'm...
LAURA BENANTI

Some fear the dark; I embrace it. It is the only place where my eyes are blind, and my soul wanders ...
LAURA

I'm kind of a jock. I sail, I ride a bike, I hike, I pump iron. I just love to be active.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

Doing the right thing has power.
LAURA LINNEY

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know...
LAURA ZISKIN

I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
LAURA ZISKIN

You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
LAURA ZISKIN

For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
LAURA ZISKIN

What's great about making movies is the sort of additive process of bringing people together and...
LAURA ZISKIN

I describe myself as someone who was always putting on a show, even when I was a little girl. I want...
LAURA ZISKIN

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.
LAURA WILKINSON

The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dive...
LAURA WILKINSON

There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that...
LAURA WILKINSON

I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
LAURA WILKINSON

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is...
LAURA WILKINSON

I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I fe...
LAURA WILKINSON

I love overcoming challenges and fear.
LAURA WILKINSON

There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.
LAURA WILKINSON

Fear has been a big battle, it runs rampant in my sport so I love to overcome that, to challenge it ...
LAURA WILKINSON

There's something about sitting face-to-face with an attorney in an office that enables people t...
LAURA WASSER

Many states favor joint custody.
LAURA WASSER

Evening bags should be just big enough for my phone, lipstick, house key, and credit card.
LAURA WASSER

For me, I don't participate in the filming when I represent a reality show star in a case, becau...
LAURA WASSER

Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going t...
LAURA WASSER

A woman - even if she is the primary breadwinner - really needs to keep in mind that at some point, ...
LAURA WASSER

I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions abou...
LAURA WASSER

Couples counseling gets many couples back together. But not all, and not always. For your own sake a...
LAURA WASSER

Dissolution and custody matters are the great equalizers. Having done this for a while, you do reali...
LAURA WASSER

I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the r...
LAURA WASSER

Generally, there are no lightning bolts or magical signs that tell you when it is time to get divorc...
LAURA WASSER

I don't know that human beings were meant to mate for life or be monogamous. But, for me, the as...
LAURA WASSER

One client's wife managed to steam the labels off all of the several hundred bottles in her husb...
LAURA WASSER

To find a pool of lawyers from whom to choose, solicit referrals from other professionals you know o...
LAURA WASSER

Conversations about money certainly are not sexy, but they should give each of you some clarity and ...
LAURA WASSER

The rarity is the sudden epiphany or single turning point showing you with dramatic clarity that you...
LAURA WASSER

If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really s...
LAURA WASSER

Like the marriage contract you entered into, your divorce is a legal transaction. Treat it that way....
LAURA WASSER

My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law ...
LAURA WASSER

Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your ...
LAURA WASSER

Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that k...
LAURA WASSER

It's very lucky to be able to do a job where I get to sit about writing plays all day and going ...
LAURA WADE

I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport...
LAURA WADE

I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quit...
LAURA WADE

Maybe if I'd had more direct contact with death, I wouldn't find it so fascinating and I wou...
LAURA WADE

It's not a meritocracy until everyone starts with the same opportunities, is it?
LAURA WADE

Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've j...
LAURA WADE

'Posh' is not really political. I didn't want to aim a brickbat at the system. Or to bas...
LAURA WADE

I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting...
LAURA WADE

Apparently the show happens even if I'm not there. Who knew?
LAURA WADE

And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written...
LAURA WADE

In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produ...
LAURA WADE

I'm always drawn to writing things that feel like uncharted territory.
LAURA WADE

I am interested in the way advances in medicine and palliative care mean more people now have the op...
LAURA WADE

I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever se...
LAURA WADE

I don't like writing with real people in mind.
LAURA WADE

I think it's disingenuous to believe that being born into a privileged world means you feel like...
LAURA WADE

It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
LAURA WADE

Quite often, little germs of ideas have come from something that I've observed or someone's ...
LAURA WADE

If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one ...
LAURA WADE

Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it become...
LAURA WADE

A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put...
LAURA WADE

I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted ima...
LAURA WADE

I'm not posh at all. I grew up in Sheffield but never managed to pick up the accent - which was ...
LAURA WADE

I think we love watching rich people behave badly. It has a sort of grisly fascination for us.
LAURA WADE

Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
LAURA VANDERVOORT

I still want to do a romantic comedy or a western or a gritty independent film... there's so muc...
LAURA VANDERVOORT

I don't know what it is about me. I don't know if there's something strange... but I con...
LAURA VANDERVOORT

I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19...
LAURA VANDERVOORT

I don't necessarily want to know what people are saying when I'm not around, especially if i...
LAURA VANDERVOORT

I grew up doing martial arts, and I'm a second-degree black belt.
LAURA VANDERVOORT

I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genr...
LAURA VANDERVOORT

I always do my own stunts, as much as possible. I'm a little stubborn about it.
LAURA VANDERVOORT

I've played such serious characters that no one sees me the way I actually am, which is complete...
LAURA VANDERVOORT

A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in min...
LAURA VANDERVOORT

Cycling was the sport of our family - we did it all the time, five days a week.
LAURA TROTT

I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to...
LAURA TROTT

I never really had a job, because I've been cycling from such a young age: there was never reall...
LAURA TROTT

Elimination race is my thing. I really enjoy that event.
LAURA TROTT

For all the benefits of being in the public eye, there is the odd downside, too. Twitter goes mad so...
LAURA TROTT

Cyclists need to help themselves and should not jump red lights. I would ride in London, but I certa...
LAURA TROTT

When I first started out in cycling, if there were two girls there, that was successful; but now, if...
LAURA TROTT

The best way for women to get into cycling is to go out in a group, to feel like you're part of ...
LAURA TROTT

My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose c...
LAURA TROTT

I don't feel like an idol to anybody. I don't feel anybody should look up to me.
LAURA TROTT

I said back in 2010 when I was rubbish at the European championships, 'If I never win an omnium ...
LAURA TROTT

It's nice to actually look done-up, because people see a different side of me, the more girly si...
LAURA TROTT

I think when I first started cycling, it wasn't that popular with kids. I felt almost embarrasse...
LAURA TROTT

It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think w...
LAURA TROTT

I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and no...
LAURA TROTT

I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it...
LAURA TROTT

Cycling has never felt like a job. To get paid for something that you absolutely love is amazing. I ...
LAURA TROTT

I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remembe...
LAURA TROTT

I can get really nervous before a race. People will think this is mad, but sometimes I have got to t...
LAURA TROTT

I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everyt...
LAURA TROTT

People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of y...
LAURA TROTT

For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outsi...
LAURA TROTT

You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just we...
LAURA SPENCER

Auditioning is an entirely different part of what we do as actors.
LAURA SPENCER

When you get to the point where you know the material so well and you know the character so well tha...
LAURA SPENCER

I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classe...
LAURA SPENCER

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that t...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemi...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

Psychology doesn't like to talk about evil. It likes to talk about bad childhoods. But I very mu...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

I climb mountains.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

I pretty much preach, teach and nag.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they li...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchi...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the ha...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with ...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

It's humbling and enthralling to know your legacy when you're alive.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

Women seem not to understand, or underestimate, the profound power they have over their husbands.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

I love revenge.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

If you're a liberal, anything you say is protected. If you're a conservative, anything you s...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its ow...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

Men are very emotionally dependent upon women from the day they are born to the day they expire.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A me...
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
LAURA SCHLESSINGER

I generally don't use an iPod for track work, as I'm focusing on heart rate and times. When ...
LAURA ROBSON

I played my first match aged six. Neither my opponent nor I knew how to score, so our parents had to...
LAURA ROBSON

I don't remember my first race, but I do recall various school sports days where I became way to...
LAURA ROBSON

If there is noise against you, then you try to make it seem it is for you. You just have to try to f...
LAURA ROBSON

I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with fre...
LAURA ROBSON

Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
LAURA ROBSON

If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis tha...
LAURA ROBSON

I think there are so many phenomenal runners. I grew up watching Cathy Freeman, Kelly Holmes, and Mi...
LAURA ROBSON

There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
LAURA ROBSON

Art indeed is a term referring to the social source and to the social utility of creative acts.
LAURA RIDING

If you find something to tell, tell it to your truest, though that make little to tell; the truer yo...
LAURA RIDING

I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad ma...
LAURA RIDING

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which...
LAURA RIDING

The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The...
LAURA RIDING

I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I kn...
LAURA RIDING

I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thi...
LAURA RIDING

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth, but only a problem of ar...
LAURA RIDING

Because most people are not sufficiently employed in themselves, they run about loose, hungering for...
LAURA RIDING

We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of our...
LAURA RIDING

I think for a long time I wasn't really out to myself growing up in Omaha, Neb., to a Catholic c...
LAURA RICKETTS

My hope is that we will inspire more lesbians to get politically engaged. For too long, lesbian wome...
LAURA RICKETTS

Being a woman and being gay is really a unique position in our society. I know in my experience of a...
LAURA RICKETTS

I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ...
LAURA RICKETTS

When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parent...
LAURA RICKETTS

We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
LAURA RICKETTS

I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I...
LAURA RAMSEY

I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
LAURA RAMSEY

The Internet is so big that no one can control anything, really.
LAURA RAMSEY

When you go in and guest-star on a TV show, they already have their family - everybody pretty much k...
LAURA RAMSEY

You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.
LAURA PREPON

Free love sounds great.
LAURA PREPON

I moved to Milan when I was 15. I was always looking for something; I never really felt like I belon...
LAURA PREPON

I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, &#...
LAURA PREPON

In any character I ever play, whether she's good or bad or whatever, my most important thing is ...
LAURA PREPON

When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything,...
LAURA PREPON

I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
LAURA PREPON

On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's ...
LAURA PREPON

I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you...
LAURA PREPON

There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
LAURA PREPON

The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't bel...
LAURA PREPON

I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.

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I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.

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