Try not be resentful or jealous of other people's success. Know that your path as a performer is going to be very different than others. Try your best not to compare.

There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.

Think of every audition as a chance to perform and you will have fun doing it.

I was use to wearing things that accentuated and flattered my bust and waist (just shakin' what my mama gave me) and definitely not my thighs.

I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type.

I hardly ever belted; I was a soprano and a comedienne and intended on doing mostly soprano legit roles but my first equity show, to my surprise, was Blues in The Night at The Cleveland Playhouse.

My advice to aspiring performers is trust your instincts, 9 times out of 10 they are perfect.

When you don't get a role, it wasn't meant to be.

My favorite thing to do is transform. The further the character is away from me the more I enjoy it.

I love performing in a good straight play as well and I'm a crossover actor, I crossover from plays to musicals, musicals to plays. This is very difficult for performers.

I think any good singer needs to be a good actor. You have to be able to tell the story.

Thank you Heavenly Father. You heard my petition. You have answered my plea.May your name be glorified and be praised.

A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.

Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

In the human heart there is a ceaseless birth of passions, so that the destruction of one is almost always the establishment of another.

Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.

Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.

Gender is not something that one is, it is something one does, an act… a doing rather than a being.

The virtuous man is never a novice in worldly things.

Pretences go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.