When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.

Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.

[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal.

As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.

I essentially get to represent my community on television.

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.

Social media is like your own personal brand of junk food

Demons don't play by the rules. They lie and they cheat and they stab in the back.

Disregarding the fact that I am old enough to be [Walter] Schellenberg's mother, I would feel nauseated to be coupled with a man whose ideology has debased our hearts.

My parents were big supporters of me going to college. It was the right thing for me to do. But it was the toughest decision I had to make.

A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together.

I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I’m having this one.

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

I'm not small, I'm space-efficient.

Given the books of a man, it is not difficult, I think, to detect therein the personality of the man, and the station in life to which he was born.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.