Words matter. These are the best Keala Settle Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The parts that I get to play are not based around the European beauty standards: They’re more about character, and I love that.
We all have fears! Don’t lie! We all have fears.
‘Miscast’ is a family affair. It highlights so many different aspects of the industry in that one night, and it’s a great evening.
I used to be a pop singer; well, not used to be. I am an R&B singer. My emphasis was on Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan and Aretha Franklin.
Stevie Wonder was a big influence in my life.
Broadway is really, really hard.
My mother taught us all to bake. It literally calmed us down, and she was able to get rid of all her frustrations.
I have a lot of cultures within me – I’m basically chop suey.
There were pockets of this career – whatever you want to call it – where I said, ‘I’ve tapped out. I don’t want to do this. I’m gonna go be a stage hand. I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to talk to people. I’m afraid of people. I’m going to walk away from everything that this was and is.’
No one can bully me better than me. I’m the first person to the party going, ‘Don’t worry – you don’t have to cut me down, ’cause I’m already there.’ I struggled with all those voices and gave them so much power, to the point where they took over my life.
I’ve always been afraid of who I am and not knowing what I can do.
On days I’m not working, I don’t wear a ton of other makeup, but if I have to look like I care, I’ll use this By Terry Ombre Blackstar eye shadow stick in Frozen Quartz and Eyeko mascara.
As you get older, whatever your struggles may be – how you sound, how you look, how you dress – you grow into yourself a little bit more. You end up realizing the world wants you and not a carbon copy of six other people.
I wake up in the morning, and I look in a mirror, and I go, ‘Is this really all I got? Is this all the universe has given me?’
No one was created to be alone.
My mother played guitar by ear, and all of us sang except my father, bless his heart.
Music was always a part of my life.
I was successfully hiding from the world on Broadway for about 25 years.
I was never one of those actors who believed, ‘I’m so gonna be an ingenue.’ I already knew that wasn’t gonna happen, and I decided not to torture myself with it.
I’ve always been the biggest bully to myself.
Musically, I’m a huge fan of Stephen Sondheim, and I love, love ‘Sweeney Todd.’
When I was younger, my mother wanted me to look like Claudia Schiffer. I was like, ‘We’re not even German, but all right.’
To be honest, being a fat girl, when people are telling you you need to eat, it’s the biggest thrill of your life.
I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.
If anybody says they’re not afraid of themselves, they’re lying!
I never got to see the circus… I was always in love with being a trapeze artist, though.
My goal is to stay in good health, and every day, I wake up and pray that I do.
As a human being, you find a way to survive, moment by moment, every single day of your life.
There is a struggle when you do represent so many countries within you, but that makes you who you are.
We weren’t wearing shoes on a full-time basis until prom.
Women put ourselves through so much. Really, everybody does; it’s not a gendered thing. I think all of us are always gonna be tortured by some sense of inadequacy, no matter what. I don’t know if there’s a way to tell people not do this to themselves.
I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They’ve got to be one way or the other and go all the way.
Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I’m such a perfectionist.
It takes a damn village to get a show on Broadway!
I was born and raised in Hawaii.
