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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
Laura Benanti
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Laura Benanti
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: July 15
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Laura Ilene Benanti
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I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.
Laura Benanti
For me, Twitter has given me a direct line to the world - it gave me an opportunity to be like, This is my voice.
Laura Benanti
I did a lot of lying. I went through a big lying phase when I was in like third and fourth grade. I told all my friends I was in Les Misérables, and I was not. I also told them I was an Indian princess. Also not an Indian princess.
Laura Benanti
If we had an audience to play to, the performance would have gotten too big. Sizing our performances to the camera was an important journey for me at least.
Laura Benanti
I didn't love stickers and unicorns and stuff, but just if I were to ride on the back of a beast to work, I want it to be a frickin' unicorn.
Laura Benanti
Just because you're a belter doesn't make you funny it just means that's how your pipes are set up.
Laura Benanti
Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand in front of the other, keep your eye on the prize, and then get there. And then turn around and help the other people - because you're already there, so start helping.
Laura Benanti
I really do love the Muppets. My sister used to call them the Muffets. She'd be like, Can we watch the Muffets? So anything that reminds me of how adorable my sister was, I'm a big fan of.
Laura Benanti
My biggest influence is someone I really don't know at all: Tina Fey. Smart, funny, beautiful, self-deprecating, also a mom and a wife.
Laura Benanti
Don't wait for people to tell you who you are. Show them.
Laura Benanti
That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice.
Laura Benanti
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.
Laura Benanti
Everything has become so pop-rock oriented that finding a role for a soprano, and finding an audience for a soprano, is tricky. Unless you're dealing with a revival, which is why I do so many revivals - because my specific tone and vocal quality lends itself to that type of writing.
Laura Benanti
My parents took me to see Stevie Wonder when I was about 3, but my mom made us leave because everybody around us was smoking pot.
Laura Benanti
I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.
Laura Benanti
Musical theatre is my first love.
Laura Benanti
I finally stopped complaining about 'Why isn't everybody else making me what I want to be?' You can't rely solely on your agent or your managers to educate people as to who you are.
Laura Benanti
What's the worst, is when people clearly haven't researched you. One time an interviewer asked me if I do a lot of plays. I'm like, yeah. Have you Googled me? There's this thing called Google, and you can ask Google that question. Then you could come to me with informed questions that didn't make me feel like I am brand new to the world.
Laura Benanti
How did we go - in a relatively short amount of time - from Audrey Hepburn to Kim Kardashian? I don't know how that happened. Like did we all collectively slip and hit our heads as a society? Why are we accepting garbage as nourishment? I don't know what's going on.
Laura Benanti
There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time.
Laura Benanti
