I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one..

I've been singing since I was nine or ten..

I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste o….

A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physica….

I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do a….

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….

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

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'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 ….

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 ….

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..

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..

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

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….

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

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 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….

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 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..

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