"I think it's about wanting something so bad and knowing that you've got something in you, but the world doesn't know yet. And damn it, you're not going to stop until the world knows it."
"When I am standing on a stage and am fully present and people are gazing back at me with that look of expectation, I absolutely feel like I am the luckiest human on the planet. I get to do what millions of people wish they could do."
"Sometimes the hero knows what to do. Tevye ain't that. The reason that he's popular is because they either see themselves, their husbands or their father up on stage."
"Growing up as a young Catholic girl I had very strict, efficient nuns who taught me over the years. It's easier than it should be for somebody as perky as I am to mimic that."