John Prine Quotes

Even the first suitcase-off-the-train moment, it's easy to be discouraged, frustrated, annoyed, angry. Because you're waiting in freezing weather outside of an open call, and you're like, 'This moment of me right now is not the joy I felt when I was doing J. Pierrepont Finch in 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying' in high school.'

I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

It's so hard going into a performance that you've worked all week for and put so much time and effort into and when a silly little simple mistake that's never happened before happens, it can be really discouraging.

It hurts when you are at a club you loved, a place where you think you might want to end your career, and things go badly.

I love my job - I'm going to keep doing it until I die - but there's nothing more soul-destroying than having to cancel a show.

The problem with being an actress is there's a lot of rejection.

Performing on stage is addictive. The adrenaline rush is exhilarating. When I stop touring for a couple weeks, I get antsy.

Being an actress and a singer, you get more 'nos' than you get 'yes.' You get more rejection than you do anything else.

I'm used to being nervous for shows in general.

The toughest part of my career was at the 2011 World Cup and 2012 Olympics and wanting so much to play and physically contribute - but having to understand and realize that it's just not my time.

I get kinda nervous before every show.

Singing Flower of Scotland was the only thing that made me nervous.I don't get nervous doing my own shows.

I don't like to audition. I just want people to give me parts.

I think all actors get scared because we're frightened to disappoint.

A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn't get there, that touches me a lot.

Just one night at a show in New York, I literally passed out and fell off the stage.

The first time I did a show, I definitely didn't get any money. My friend just let me do this show. I was so nervous: my mic didn't work, and I was like, 'Urgh.' It was terrible. It was a dingy club off of the highway, but all these people came. It was packed out.

Broadway is intimidating. Don't think it's not.

Auditioning sucks!

A show can be completely dead before you even get on the air. I've been privy to a couple of those.

There's nothing sadder than when things happen the way you've planned them, because we don't have a lot of imagination, you know.

I would go to sleep and dream about being onstage with thousands and thousands of people.

I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.

When I graduated from college, I tried my hardest to get a job at an accounting firm, and it just wasn't meant to be. I ended up delivering pizzas and newspapers. I knew my life was cracked up to be a little more.