Annaleigh Ashford Quotes

I’ll be, like, grocery shopping or doing something totally mundane, and once a day, you‘ll hear a Cyndi Lauper song on the radio. It is astounding what an icon she is, not just in popular music but in popular culture.

If you’ve ever been to a great clown show, there’s always a moment where the clown goes into the house and fuses with the audience. There’s something fantastic about the improv of it all.

I am a huge Idina Menzel fan. She’s incredible.

The people I see be the most successful are the people who have an inner confidence and an inner strength that comes from the character they display away from the stage and from what their parents taught them.

It’s very unusual to be playing something other than human.

Greg Grunberg is so beautiful and charming and funny and heartbreaking.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

The cast of ‘The Big C’ is such an amazing group of people. They’re so joyful and just open their arms to you as an actor.

My mom is a gym teacher, and she’s not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.

That’s one of the beauties of James Lapine and Stephen Sondheim and their work together. They have such a depth to the emotional exploration of the story that they’re telling, but there’s always a release, and the release is a laugh.

I have always known mosquitoes love me, but they really love me in Central Park.

I’ve been lucky to play strong women who are trying their hardest to do good.

If you can change your mind, you can change the world!

I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing ‘Saturday Night Live’ impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven.

In the late 1950s, the woman‘s place in society was second-class.

I dreamed my whole life of New York being my home.

A dog‘s heart chakra is always open; their aim in life is to please.

Performing outside, you have to wear sunscreen.

I loved reading ‘Anne of Green Gables’ and ‘Little Women’ and Jane Austen. Those were times when people really did have only one true love in their life.

I took obedience, agility, and shepherding with my dog.

It’s important to remember to pinch yourself to remind you where you came from and how lucky you are.

There’s no better gift to an actor than when you walk into an audition, and the casting director is your partner.

As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.

Animals are completely grounded in their root chakra.

I’ve had such an amazing opportunity to work on so many different types of projects that continued on to Broadway. Unfortunately I didn’t always continue on with them. Still, you know, I always had such a great pride in kind of helping the authors and directors create the show.

I, for one, have a great momma.

I don’t know how to explain it, but ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to perform.

I actually have some family that’s from Missouri, and my husband is an outrageous St. Louis Cardinals fan, so we go to St. Louis every once in a while to go see baseball games.

We don’t often talk about the quarter-life crisis, but it is a real thing.

I love working in television and film, but it’s completely different. The theater will always be my home. So I would love to be a lady who gets to work in all of the mediums and who calls the theater her home.

Donna Summer was one of the strongest female singers in pop music. She was very underrated as a vocalist and a writer, and her songbook is just outrageous.

I kind of had a quarter-life crisis before I did ‘Rent.’ I had done Glinda in ‘Wicked‘ for a while. I had worked for Cirque Du Soleil, and then I did ‘Hair.’ Then I had a real quiet time, not having work, and it was a time of not only self-discovery of me as a person, but also what I wanted as an artist and actor.

In the comedy world, there’s always been one woman to five men. I think that’s changing, that we’re being respected more as writers and comedians.

My mom is an elementary school gym teacher and a track and cross-country coach, so she really wanted me to be a runner. But I was not a runner. I was horrible at running.

Sondheim has been a part of my musical collective since I was eight. I was a dramatic little kid.

There are certain performers that the gay community receives and recognizes with love, and my whole life, I’ve always responded to those same artists.

I love to share in a scene – I’d rather share than be alone.

Sometimes in a big theatre, you have about, probably, six yards sometimes between you and the first person in the audience. It’s almost like you’ve got to jump across a little pond to get there and then keep moving.

Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

I think there’s something beautiful about the art of making art, and it just will live and breathe.

One of the great things that playwright A.R. Gurney does in ‘Sylvia’ is he gives language to the emotional gestures and energy that our dogs give to us when they’re communicating.

I think part of becoming a wonderful actor and part of defining your craft is defining yourself and being confident in yourself, so when the hard knocks come, and you don’t get a job for five years, and your ego is being kicked around, you can pull yourself out of it.

In ‘Kinky Boots,’ I looked for moments to be bold, showing Lauren‘s gutsiness and smarts. She’s a little bit kooky now, too, and I love me some kooky.

The older I get and the more iconic the piece, I believe that it’s wise to watch a bit and become inspired and take moments that feel so connected to the story and also connected to me that I feel like I can make a part of my own performance.

I came out of the womb singing, dancing, and telling awkward jokes.