Words matter. These are the best Laura Benanti Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Well, I’m grateful for all the experiences that I’ve had.
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 only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I’ve cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.
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 not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It’s easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you’re listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.
I think that every therapist that I know, including my dad and my sister, have their own issues. But that empathy is what makes them good at their job.
For me, Melania represents America. We’re all reluctantly married to Donald Trump now. She is a vehicle to making fun of him. I can’t do a Donald Trump impersonation, but I can impersonate her.
Most people don’t even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times… I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
I think we’ve become a TV culture, where we forget the live performer in front of us can see us. I think there is a self-centeredness that happens. There’s nothing more important than what you are doing in that moment. So, unless it’s an emergency, put your phone away.
I don’t think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We’ve got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
There’s a lot of pressure on Broadway. There’s this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I’m talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness – there’s nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you’ve ever had.
I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, ‘You are so brave.’
I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box – and that’s very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I’m not blaming them for that – it’s just up to me to show people what I can do.
I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.
It’s always fun to play someone who is a little off. Normal is a little boring.
Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, ‘No, you’re going to be normal, you’re going to go to school, you’re going to get good grades, you’re going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.’
I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot ‘Nashville,’ and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in ‘Supergirl’.
My parents were in ‘Brigadoon’ on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.
A lot of times, when you’re the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that’s it, and people don’t get a sense of who you truly are.
For me, Kate McKinnon can do no wrong. She is an absolute genius. She’s a hero of mine. Melissa McCarthy is hilarious.
My mother was an actress and my voice teacher, an incredible voice teacher. My biological father is an actor, and my stepfather, who raised me along with my mother, is a psychotherapist. I was always supported in creative ventures.
I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we’re not just saying, ‘Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,’ but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
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, but then it’s even funnier because you’re walking and you’re, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you’re having a seizure.