Top 50 Annaleigh Ashford Quotes

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.

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

Animals are completely grounded in their root chakra.

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

I, for one, have a great momma.

It takes skill to sing bad and dance bad, because there’s a certain amount of unawareness that people have when they can’t sing and they can’t dance, so I have to say that it is a challenge!

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

Since I was a little girl, I’ve collected ladybugs. Not real ones – I never had a weird ladybug farm!

We had a cabin in the mountains – and I remember, one year around this time, a moose came down the river, and one night he came to our cabin and hung out on the back porch for hours. They’re really, really, really big animals. And dangerous, especially if they’re a momma.

I grew up listening to cabaret. At 7 and 8 years old, I was already singing like a club performer.

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

I always try to have a positive and warm intention that is not about me. It is easy to make everything about yourself. But you take the weight off when we make it about the audience. It’s about the joy you can bring to somebody else instead of the joy that you get from doing it.

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.

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 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.

I love finding ways to make familiar characters into someone unique.

I think every New York actor’s dream is to do Shakespeare in the Park. Each show is so special and unique and diverse because of the elements that we’re performing in. Every live show is truly a one-of-a-kind.

St. Louis is a very interesting city in terms of accents.

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

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.

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 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’ve chosen a career that’s quite tricky. You have such high highs and low lows, and it’s outrageously inconsistent. But it is what I love, which is so rare, and I’m so grateful for that every day.

Theater was just what I was supposed to do.

I’m so not a Bridezilla.

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.

Sadly, I never really tell people what I think. So it’s a real treat to play a woman who’s able to speak her mind unabashedly.

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

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.

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.

My very first scene on camera for anything was with Sarah Jessica Parker in the ‘Sex and the City’ movie, and she couldn’t have been more lovely and beautiful and kind, and on top of that, she’s just a killer actress.

My first big show in Denver was ‘Ruthless! The Musical.’ I played Tina Denmark at the Theatre on Broadway. It was my big break!

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

Even though technically the fundamentals of acting are always the same in every medium, what’s different is the size.

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.

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

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.

My go-go dancing was not your typical go-go dancing: I really was doing performance art. I would do dramatic, elaborate lyricals across the bar. I learned a lot, actually, as an artist during that time.

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.

You have to be so honest in comedy.

Love is never not going to be a problem.

I think no matter what you are going to pursue, if you pursue it like it’s the most important thing, then everything else will be lost. And at the end of the day, when it’s time to evaluate the path that you chose for your life, there has to be something more.

I feel like any actor that has started out in the theater, the theater will always be their home.

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

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.

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.

I’ve always felt very attuned to, and at home in, the gay community.

I did clown training for months.

I come from a family of educators.