Idina Menzel Quotes

The best thing an actor can bring to a role is himself - that's no secret.

Composers are very individual creatures.

I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.

You can time a part perfectly and play it badly. And some people have very individual offbeat timing, which is their own. It works simply because they are who they are.

If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.

I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What I realized, though, is that I can't sound like that, and what makes their performances magical is their uniqueness.

People have a certain perfection about them, no matter who they are. Like when Janis Joplin sang. Gorgeous!

There are some beautiful things about people like Katy Perry, who are bold enough to go up on a pink cotton-candy cloud, with a guitar, in a tutu, and sing all by herself.

Ditko isn't a direct influence, but I really admire his work and how his personality always comes through the drawing. There's a honest and quirky humanity to it, and you always feel the artist behind the comic. That's really rare.

You shouldn't think about technique when you play. You have to be you. It cannot be about, 'I can play this, and I can show you that.'

If you're going to be an artist, you need to be an original.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

Your best work is your expression of yourself. Now, you may not be the greatest at it, but when you do it, you're the only expert.

If I was an actor, it would be like a part that was me. It has to be real to me. I have to make it mine. I really enjoy taking a song I feel that way about, and sometimes it can take a long time to come up with just the right touch. I think that's really my greatest talent, interpreting.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

When you are cast for a role, it's because of everything that makes you who you are in that moment in time. No one else has that. That's a unique, powerful thing to hold.

We don't vogue, we are 'Vogue'.

It's really hard to copy another actor and be successful. In fact, that's usually the reason people are not good, because they're copying something they've seen, but, for some reason with their face and their body, it doesn't work.

The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.

Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.

I'm never worried about being upstaged. I love to have the best, most individual people come in and see if we hit on something.

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness.