Top 25 Carmen Cusack Quotes

To be honest with you, most of the time the ingenue roles are a little bit dull and boring, in my opinion.

When you do something eight times a week, you fall into those little places where sometimes things can get a bit stagnant. That’s why I always welcome a new face on the stage.

It’s hard for some parents to give their children compliments.

We had to grow up very fast. There never was a day when there wasn’t shouting about the bills.

You have to laugh through hard things, right? How else do you cope?

I’ve had one fall that I kind of hurt my toe pretty badly because I slammed into one of the set pieces. But, you know, you just get up and keep going. The adrenaline’s pumping, and you just carry on!

I don’t think I’ve grown up easily.

Show biz! It’s definitely not for sissies.

I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations.

We all have to go through our own experiences of growing up.

Just stay present in the moment, and what will come will come.

My mother had me when she was 16, and that was an issue that had to be dealt with. She grew up in a very religious background, and there was a lot of discussion of what they should do with this unborn child. But here I am, and thank goodness.

‘Bright Star’ has been designed and the songs have been formulated around the way that I sing. That is the biggest gift of anything.

We will always need to be reminded that we are human. Art gives us that.

I’m not a fan of musicals. Never have been.

I wasn’t ready for ‘Bright Star’ to end when it did.

Taking the arts out of schools is a terrible mistake.

If you looked at my music collection and saw an album that was a soundtrack to a musical, it’s probably because I had bought it to learn the music so I could go and audition.

I was worried that my voice would struggle with talking nonstop every night, but it’s been fine.

I believe there’s no reason why we couldn’t be entering a new age of musical theater if we continue to nurture young talent, take risks, and give them a playing field.

The first music that came to my ear was gospel… I used to sing ‘Amazing Grace’ with a very strong southern accent and a vibrato already at five years old.

‘Wicked’ is so hard-core, physically and mentally, for the whole three hours, that doing that show for two years has pretty much prepared me for anything.

I’m just going to do things that I like to do, sing songs that I like to sing.

I got married way too young.

An accent always helps me ground a character. It also helps to remind me what age I’m playing.