Idina Menzel Quotes
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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.
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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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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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We had a sense of like performing for the crew, 'cause the crew loved it, they loved hearing the music blasting.
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It's definitely easier for me when music's involved. It's almost like I get the characters through the melodies.
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Be yourself. I know that sounds cliche, but we all have seriously quirky things about us that may make us feel like an outsider or different, but those are the things to really celebrate. They're what make us unique.
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Working with him was great! It was fun to see each other in the costumes that we were wearing when we were flirting in the first place!
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You're singing your heart out and people are eating a salad.
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I feel like times are changing; a couple of years ago it was harder to go from theatre or TV into music...I'm embracing the idea of doing it all.
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Of course I get imtimidated but so far I've worked with actors that have gone out of their way to make me feel comfortable, and you would be surprised at how much respect they have for us Broadway people. They usually sing my songs back to me and want to act out scenes from shows I've been in.
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I just want to keep working and keep growing.
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It has always been the strangest excperience. Our lives were all transformed in so many wonderful ways, but Jonathon wasn't around for any of it. That always grounded me and gave me a sense of perspective. Whenever I'm too caught up in myself or in something superficial, I remind myself that it's because of Jonathan Larson that I am where I am today.
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It was my first big movie experience, so for it to be a Robert Towne movie and then find out Colin Farrell was the one opposite me in all my scenes was just so exciting.
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The entire RENT experience was so overwhelming that I don't remember that. It was a very emotional time.
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I do feel deep in my heart that I will always work in theatre. I will be able to work on theatrical projects, and I'm very proud of that.
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I think I take more chances on stage then I do in real life but you can't learn anything if you don't challenge yourself. And don't say terminally. If you love to perform then you have no choice, just keep training and focus on the words or the music whenever you find yourself slipping back inside yourself. You're not doing anyone any favors if you withhold your talents from the world.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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Our wedding was on the beach in Jamaica, and it was supposed to rain but never did. The sky was blue and just unbelievably passionate-looking.
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I would love to be in WEST SIDE STORY, but I'm not a Maria or Anita. So that won't work.
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At first you take the work you can get, but now I feel like I have the choice, it shouldn't be taken lightly. I'm appreciating the responsibility I have in helping people honor their individuality and play the underdog.
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There's a wonderful old saying; a term of endearment that they use Darling Heart. I love that.
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I'm a big baby when it comes to snakes and mice... and roaches!!!
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Sometimes you don't know how you're going to make it through, and you need some Twizzlers.
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With rock music, you can't just mouth the words. You want to see veins bulging and spit flying.
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I can never understand what these people are saying and they're speaking English!
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I'm home now. But I fell in love with London. London has tons of exquisite parks. Each with their own distinct character. Hampstead Heath is my favorite.
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Things happen for a reason, and in their own time.
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I can't wait to get back to Broadway. I'm focusing on the album for the next few months but as soon as I find something I'm passionate about I am right there.
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Maureen originally lived in Connecticut, but once they met me, they decided she was from Long Island! There's a part of me that will always be in the character.
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I haven't been on stage singing that song since back in the day, so when we shot it, it was like muscle memory. As soon as we were on that stage listening to that music, it brought back everything.
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good Backhand.
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Well I always take another steamy shower and I revocalize. But also, I have received the most wonderful videos of young people singing Wicked songs in their living rooms. When I am feeling exhausted on stage I have often found myself thinking of these adorable kids and I imagine they are in the audience.
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Honestly, I remember most the look on my husband's face. The other thing I remember is when they were reading off the [nominees'] names and they read Donna [Murphy]'s name, I was smiling, and he leaned over into my ear and he said, 'If they don't read your name, the smile you have on your face now is perfect for when the camera hits you. Just keep that smile, it looks very good.' And I looked at him and I was like, 'Like this?' and he was like, 'Yeah, just keep that if you don't win.
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Having lived with Elphaba for so long on Broadway, it was so great to have some time away from her so I could discover new things to bring to the London version and it was so amazing to collaborate with director Joe Montello again.
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I was so green. I didn’t have any technique - I was just flying by the seat of my pants!
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He's the kind of guy that becomes friends with the girl first, and snuggles, and then gets you to answer all his questions about ex-boyfriends, so when you're finally married, you want to kill yourself for telling him all your private stuff.
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I knew why I fell through the trapdoor, it was because you always thought the witch should die.
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I love The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand. All the women in her books are forces of nature.
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Used to be GREEN. Emerald is my birth stone. But now when I wear green people think I'm embodying Elphaba and I really just like green. So now I like DEEP PURPLE.
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I try not to read too much online. People are brutal. And for every good thing there is something really hurtful out there. So I'm staying away!
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Oh I actually have just one song and I don't know if it will make the movie but Stephen Schwartz and Alan Menken wrote it.
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Yeah, just because I'll be up in my dressing room putting on green make-up for an hour doesn't mean I don't want to be invited to all the cool places. The role itself is very isolating. They're all so mean to me on stage. So I've made it clear I need a little TLC off stage.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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I loved performing Life of the Party. Kate was so irreverent. I love jazz influenced music.
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Chris Columbus is so passionate about it and by hiring us, and by having Jonathan Larson's family around, he's kept the integrity of the work. And with the film, there's a lot more you can do with a look or a glance that would have gotten lost of stage. I never thought that when this movie got made we would be in it, just because its Hollywood - they don’t hire unknowns.
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Just felt like a change. I've had the same haircut forever! And yes of course my family and hubby love it, but they have to say that right?
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POP just means, not show tunes. Of course I have nothing against those, but I'm just trying to explore a different side of myself.
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It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for Rent because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of Rent, and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.
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Making RENT was such a great experience. We documented this thing that had changed us all. And making movies is fun. But I'll always do theatre; it's what's embraced me. I love everything about it.
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That's too difficult a question. I am in awe of the generosity and love sent my way. I have received a countless amount of cards and pictures and creative gifts. I do adore the really young kids that write their own cards in green crayon. I framed a particular drawing that said Dear Elphaba, I thought it was sad that you thought you weren't pretty because I think you're beautiful. I keep that in my dressing room.
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I want to be one of those women who can do everything. Wicked was the best time of my life, but eight shows a week can really burn you out. . . But live performance is where I feel the most at home.
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Oh I would love to, but I'm pretty sure they aren't planning that in the near future.
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The music business is the hardest and most cut-throat of all, so I'm just trying to enjoy the process and looking forward to working with some of the best song writers and producers.
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I don't have three things. I order out constantly and I can't cook!
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Everyone got really close, but Taye and I especially became close friends. And then one night we went to the movies, and I think we saw Twister, and he held my hand. And there it was! -On her courtship with her husband, Taye Diggs, who she met through the musical Rent.
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I'm a really bad rapper, but I really love to do it.
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I am a huge movie buff. Anything Julia Roberts... Meryl Streep. KRAMER VS KRAMER. SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. GOODFELLAS. I'm all over the map.
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