Idina Menzel Quotes

Broadway was weird.

Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.

I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.'

When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.

It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

I love and respect theatre, so I am truly honored to have the opportunity to take my voice to the Broadway stage.

At some point I got sick of people calling me Bonzo junior. But now that I'm older and wiser, I'm just honored to be mentioned in the same breath.

I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.

As I've grown older, I appreciate what I had at Lilly even more than I did back then.

It's interesting how things you hear as a kid take on a whole new meaning when you are an adult.

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

I love the idea that we put in jokes the kids don't get. And that later, when they grow up and read a few books and go to college and watch the show again, they can get it on a completely different level.

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

I wasn't originally taking drama, but the drama teacher asked me to audition for Bye, Bye Birdie. I did and got the lead role. Initially I was kind of scared, but once I did it I got bitten by the bug and loved it.

My parents used to take me to a lot of theatre when I was young.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

My parents were both in show business. My father was an actor, my mom an actress, and both singers, dancers and actors. They met in Los Angeles doing a play together and so I grew up in a show biz family.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.