Top 40 Lindsay Mendez Quotes

I’m good friends with Matt Morrison.

As I became an adult, I listened to a lot of jazz, to the ladies of jazz, Ella Fitzgerald and Carmen McRae and Nina Simone. I loved that they each covered the same songs and interpreted them totally differently. I thought that was so cool. They could each paint their own picture of that moment.

I loved ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and I’m a huge Judy Garland fan, too.

‘Dogfight’ is my favorite thing I’ve ever worked on. It’s such a special piece, and I’m so close to the character of Rose. I loved doing it every night.

I think it’s important to play real people.

There was so much emotional response to ‘Dogfight.’ You just heard the audience: They were so horrified. They were sobbing. They were joyful at times.

It’s nice to be with a male energy as opposed to a female energy. It’s very different.

‘Dogfight’ was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors.

I think I’m the person who keeps friends from hitting ‘send.’ I’ve definitely helped people go through emails before sending them. I’m a good proofreader.

I did ‘The Sound of Music.’ That was my first musical.

People learn from their mistakes and move forward.

With ‘Wicked,’ I was stepping into a role that I didn’t make so that felt like I had more boundaries then I did with ‘Carousel.’

I think people feel completely stunted without an agent, but there’s a lot of auditions to be had without one and a lot to be learned before you take an agent on.

Even though acting is my job, I do this because I love it, and when the love is gone, I’m not going to do it anymore.

Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I’m also a huge folk music fan – Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.

I’ve never been a thin girl. I grew up being – I don’t want to say a plus-size girl, but a girl of curves and substance.

I’m a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn’t really see myself in that. Not that I didn’t grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don’t know – I just never put myself there.

The first time I didn’t get called back at an audition, I cried. My mom told me, ‘We’re doing this for fun, and if it’s not fun anymore, we’re not going to do it. So if you ever cry again, we’re going to stop.’ I never cried from then on, and I kept that lesson for the rest of my life.

I loved Judy Garland growing up, and I also loved Ella Fitzgerald.

I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18.

I don’t look like a chorus girl.

Gay men are still men.

Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon.

I’ve never been a bridesmaid.

Being called ugly every day is not easy on the psyche.

It’s been a huge honor to collaborate and create new theatre with new writers and to create theatre that will last after my lifetime. It’s been in the most truthful way possible. It’s my favorite thing to do.

I loved working on ‘Dogfight,’ but when I first read it and wrapped my head around the story, I was a little horrified.

My parents were big movie-musical fans. And I thought ‘Grease’ was different from the usual MGM musical. I was intrigued and fell in love with it.

I’ve always been afraid to do a solo show. When I go to see the great solo shows of Liz Callaway or Christine Ebersole, they have so many incredible stories to talk about, and their material and lives are so rich. I’ve always worried that my life was not rich enough.

I do think television has really fantasized it to the point where now everyone wants a gay best friend.

I teach a lot of young musical theatre actors, and I notice that a lot of them say that they have a harder time connecting the classic repertoire.

I started taking voice when I was six and dance classes every day – I just couldn’t get enough.

I have a big persona onstage sometimes, but offstage, I’m super shy. Like, I don’t want to perform for people – I’d rather die than sing in a room for someone.

I’m a big Broadway fan and a big MGM fan.

I love my body. I love representing people who aren’t stick figures, because people aren’t.

I have a group of fans who pitched in and named a star after me… So. Cool.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

I knew if I were ever to leave ‘Godspell,’ which I loved so much, it would have to be for something really spectacular.

I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired.

I learned by watching Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.