Laura Benanti Quotes

I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

Laura Benanti

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• Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Animal
  • Coffee

• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Good
  • Work
  • Art

• There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • Up
  • Deep

• But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Music
  • Words
  • Relationship

• If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Understand

• As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Long
  • Live
  • Day

• I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Kids
  • Black

• The Pistols were like my work of art. They were my canvas.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Work
  • Art
  • Canvas

• Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Me
  • Always
  • Mad

• It is my first preference to do films with social significance. Art cinema has given me credibility and status as an actor, but commercial cinema has given me a comfortable living.

  

  Om Puri
  • Actor
  • Living
  • Significance

• We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Islamic

• There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Time
  • Work
  • School

• If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Doing

• It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Seem

• Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.

  

  Bartlett Sher
  • Great
  • Look
  • New

• I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Good
  • Long
  • Brand

• It's hard for me to even watch comedies I'm in.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Hard
  • Watch

• I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.

  

  Bayard Taylor
  • World
  • Man
  • Greatest

• I thought that, with so much current attention focused on the topic of North Korea, I might share what I think are three books which cast a rare light on the elusive realm of North Korea.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • Think
  • Light
  • Attention

• I started off doing theater as a kid, and I always played a character. I hid behind the script and was told where to go. But to actually perform as yourself is very difficult. I didn't used to enjoy it, but now I do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Character
  • Enjoy
  • Yourself

• Literature gives us a window into other people's experiences in other places, in other times, so I thought it would be really interesting to investigate how different people had written about motherhood, and childhood.

  

  Natalie Merchant
  • People
  • Different
  • Interesting

• If he's worried about this he would have retired five years ago.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Years
  • Retirement
  • Worried

• I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Brave