Top 40 Annaleigh Ashford Quotes

I always have multiple ladybugs around because they’re lucky, and they’re good for flowers and the environment.

Sometimes in a big theatre, you have about, probably, six yards sometimes between you and the first person in the audience. It’s almost like you’ve got to jump across a little pond to get there and then keep moving.

I have always known mosquitoes love me, but they really love me in Central Park.

I’ve had such an amazing opportunity to work on so many different types of projects that continued on to Broadway. Unfortunately I didn’t always continue on with them. Still, you know, I always had such a great pride in kind of helping the authors and directors create the show.

It’s important to remember to pinch yourself to remind you where you came from and how lucky you are.

There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I’ve always responded to those same artists.

I dreamed my whole life of New York being my home.

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.

I think there’s something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

My first big show in Denver was ‘Ruthless! The Musical.’ I played Tina Denmark at the Theatre on Broadway. It was my big break!

I think every New York actor’s dream is to do Shakespeare in the Park. Each show is so special and unique and diverse because of the elements that we’re performing in. Every live show is truly a one-of-a-kind.

Vocally, it’s important to sing every day. It’s a muscle, and you have to keep it in shape.

I come from a family of educators.

I kind of had a quarter-life crisis before I did ‘Rent.’ I had done Glinda in ‘Wicked’ for a while. I had worked for Cirque Du Soleil, and then I did ‘Hair.’ Then I had a real quiet time, not having work, and it was a time of not only self-discovery of me as a person, but also what I wanted as an artist and actor.

It takes skill to sing bad and dance bad, because there’s a certain amount of unawareness that people have when they can’t sing and they can’t dance, so I have to say that it is a challenge!

A dog’s heart chakra is always open; their aim in life is to please.

I’ve been lucky to play strong women who are trying their hardest to do good.

The people I see be the most successful are the people who have an inner confidence and an inner strength that comes from the character they display away from the stage and from what their parents taught them.

Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

I took obedience, agility, and shepherding with my dog.

We don’t often talk about the quarter-life crisis, but it is a real thing.

Donna Summer was one of the strongest female singers in pop music. She was very underrated as a vocalist and a writer, and her songbook is just outrageous.

As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.

My mom is an elementary school gym teacher and a track and cross-country coach, so she really wanted me to be a runner. But I was not a runner. I was horrible at running.

I’m a modern girl with old-fashioned sensibilities.

In the comedy world, there’s always been one woman to five men. I think that’s changing, that we’re being respected more as writers and comedians.

I’ll be, like, grocery shopping or doing something totally mundane, and once a day, you’ll hear a Cyndi Lauper song on the radio. It is astounding what an icon she is, not just in popular music but in popular culture.

I actually have some family that’s from Missouri, and my husband is an outrageous St. Louis Cardinals fan, so we go to St. Louis every once in a while to go see baseball games.

I loved reading ‘Anne of Green Gables’ and ‘Little Women’ and Jane Austen. Those were times when people really did have only one true love in their life.

I love finding ways to make familiar characters into someone unique.

Greg Grunberg is so beautiful and charming and funny and heartbreaking.

I’m so not a Bridezilla.

This is magic – the people of Broadway. There’s nothing better!

I think no matter what you are going to pursue, if you pursue it like it’s the most important thing, then everything else will be lost. And at the end of the day, when it’s time to evaluate the path that you chose for your life, there has to be something more.

We had a cabin in the mountains – and I remember, one year around this time, a moose came down the river, and one night he came to our cabin and hung out on the back porch for hours. They’re really, really, really big animals. And dangerous, especially if they’re a momma.

There’s no better gift to an actor than when you walk into an audition, and the casting director is your partner.

I’ve always felt very attuned to, and at home in, the gay community.

I did clown training for months.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

I feel that since I was a little, little person, I knew that one of my life goals was to tell stories and bring joy to people.