Laura Benanti Quotes
I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
-
The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
-
Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
-
Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
-
The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
-
Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
-
First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
-
In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
-
Between the ages of 18 and 20, I made three hour-long films. One was a superhero film called 'Carbolic Soap.' One was a cop film called 'Dead Right.' And the other was called 'A Fistful Of Fingers.'
-
You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.
-
With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
-
Becoming a tutor was among the many attractive post-collegiate side careers I failed to pursue while devoting the bulk of my days to writing fiction.
-
The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
-
I have charity work that I do. I started my own charity, the Friends of the Prostate, and I'm also working on awareness of the deviated septum. I do this because not many people are interested in it. There's also Save the Funnel-web - they're dying out.
-
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
-
You don't become the leading spinner of the team by just talking. You have to perform well consistently over a long period of time. I have bowled well and won games for India. That is why I am the No. 1 spinner. Every time I have taken the field, I have given my 100%.
-
For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
-
There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
-
It is important to make the fans that support me feel supported.
-
Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
-
I never really wanted to be a singer. I always preferred to be behind the camera.
-
We may know the chemical structure of medicinal drugs, but we frequently have a very incomplete understanding of how they work.
-
I want young girls to dream about being professional soccer players instead of just watching the boys go out and play.
-
I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.
