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Idina Menzel Quotes
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~ Idina Menzel Quote
I don't get rid of my nerves. I just try to embrace them and channel them and focus on the person in front of me. Sometimes nerves can get the best of us but sometimes we can do the unexpected and have a real spontaneous and idiosyncratic moment.
~ Idina Menzel Quote
I always try to save something. I keep scripts with my notes in them. I have my Elphaba witches hat. I keep opening night cards and gifts. What else? Oh I kept my Act 2 Maureen wardrobe too.
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I feel like I was born to do this... I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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London was such an amazing experience. I couldn't have asked for a better way to make my west end debut than with that show. The cast was fantastic and they quickly became my second family-I miss them a lot.
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I love so many of my costumes and feel very fortunate to have worked with some incredibly talented designers. Some of my favorites are the Act 2 Elphaba dress with all the layers. There are these little cotton threads that resemble cobwebs in the skirt. I don't know if anyone can see them but I love the detail. I also loved my Wild Party costume. And... oh yeah I loved Maureen's black vinyl stretch pants too!
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There's something so glorious about filming a musical - every day we'd come it and it would be balls-to-the-walls, singing your guts out. There was a great energy.
~ Idina Menzel Quote
We have this strength inside of us and yet we are taught to always sort of keep it down. I sort of found in my life that I've taken a step back and made myself smaller in order to try to fit in. And that hasn't worked. And we have to learn to kind of embrace what makes us unique, and embrace our strength and then if people don't like it, fuck it.
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Really brainy people. I tend to get a little quiet, not wanting to say something stupid.
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I've been singing since I was born. It's something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don't need any impetus to do it. I just sing.
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My mom sends me these Hallmark cards and she writes in them, 'Honey, don't worry. It's all going to work out okay. Your voice makes people heart's soar on eagle's wings.' She just wrote me one like two weeks ago. I'm not even kidding. I thought, oh my god, mom is right. I, I am, I am special. People are standing up, no body ever gets a standing ovation during dinner. I'm going to be somebody!
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The best part for me is that when I did RENT 10 years ago, I met all these wonderful people, including my husband and Jonathan Larson . . . We all kinda bonded in a way that not a lot of casts do. Now that I'm revisiting the play, I'm tripping on how lucky I was to have that experience back then.
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Julia Murney is beautiful. She is a great loyal supportive person with an incredible voice.
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I try to be very autobiographical in my writing. I find that I get the best response to my music when I've been specific about my own life. If I try to skirt around issues and get too poetic, it gets too abstract and people can't relate. I try to be truthful about my life. I don't feel that I'm necessarily some incredibly profound songwriter, but I do have a voice that can be powerful and can make people feel something. I am not trying to impress people with esoteric language and ideas, I want to relate to them and their humanity and speak to someplace inside them. I struggle with my own spirituality in my life. I question my own beliefs and that comes across lyrically. I also sing about my personality flaws such as being an unopinionated person or a waiverer.
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