American theatre, to me, represents zeroing down on what the need is to get inside the personal hearts of people. I think it's really beautiful if we….

I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical director, my same dressing r….

You always want to be the person who doesn't need to be included, but it feels damn good to be among you people. My first Broadway show was Master Cl….

My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged an….

Sometimes I'm considered, I guess, a subtle actor. Maybe I'm less of a showman and more just trying to tell the story. I don't know what the percepti….

I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core..

One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to..

When doing a revival, you have a lot of people asking you questions about someone who played it before, and to me that's neither here nor there - it ….

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act..

You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself..

I'm an actress. I'm not putting my life on the line for any great cause. I don't step out too boldly about anything except my children and family..

I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where m….

By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll..

We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basical….

I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially ….

If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it..

If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave..

When you're pregnant, things-at least for me-get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth..

Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have ….

Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you g….

I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful..