Taylor Louderman Quotes

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

As cricketers we fail all the time. You score a hundred every now and again but you get out between nought and 20 far more often. If you get 50, you feel bad because you should have got a hundred. Even if you get a hundred, you feel you should have got 150. So you're always failing.

To be honest, I am scared of acting, and moreover, I want to be perfect on the musical stage first.

I have a fear of doing stuff that's not very good and being remembered for that.

I'm very delighted they didn't choose to do the very musical episode of 'Once Upon a Time' when Ariel came in because I probably wouldn't have been the best girl for the job!

I love singing! I grew up in musical theater.

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.

My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

My first impression when I made it through was 'Good, because I'm going to prove to you that I deserve to be here', because they told me that sometimes I lack confidence in my performance and sometimes I'm not as consistent as they'd like me to be.

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

My parents think I'm better under pressure.

'Hairspray' was a show I was involved in from the very first reading, and I was 19. And, 'Hairspray', was one of my favorite movies growing up.

I don't think anybody should do what they do in hopes of being successful. But I always expect myself to be successful at things. And if I'm not, I feel bad. I don't care for failure. I've failed at a number of things, and it's not my favorite state of mind. So I prefer success.

I think that somehow I got the notion that I had to be successful, to be the best in the world.

I was born knowing I had to go to college.

I think if I was less exigent with myself, maybe I would be more productive, because I would put less pressure on my shoulders.

When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.

I set pretty high expectations for myself, and I hold myself to a pretty high standard.

I danced in choruses from about 1959 to 1967, in 'Take Me Along,' 'Wildcat,' and 'Subways Are for Sleeping.'

Oh God, I would love to do Broadway, but I'm unfortunately not a very good singer.

I'm never happy with my performances. I always want to prove more and more things.