Lea Salonga Quotes
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The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.
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I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.
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'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song.
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I watch a lot of TV - 'Perfect Strangers,' 'Family Matters,' 'Who's the Boss?' - then I go over my notes in the script, lock it into my head and go to bed.
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I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.
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I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.
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I think I will always be performing; I don't think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.
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The nice thing about doing a pop opera - in the way that doing, say, 'Miss Saigon' or 'Les Miz' would be - is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of 'Why is this person bursting out into song?' because the whole thing is sung.
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I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.
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I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it's not up to the actor, it's up to the producer. It's up to the powers that be.
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It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?
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I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.