Idina Menzel Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“There are lots of things I'm acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.”

“I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.”

“With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.”

“It's been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.”

“All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.”

“Being a role model is about being true to myself.”

“For singers, I believe we can sing in a lot of keys. I know I have this big range, but the point is to find a key that emotionally connects people.”

“I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.”

“I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn't want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn't join in because when we're younger we're afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.”

“I'm smart enough to know to work with smart people.”