“When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like...” — Donna Lynne Champlin Quote

“When you are in the musical theater and you are someone who looks like me, you are constantly bending yourself, bending your voice to fit the job they've given you.”

“With shows with plus-sized characters, there are all of these lines of being jealous at so and so or mad at so and so for being skinny and their great diets. It's so all-encompassing and exhausting. I'm not saying that's not some women, but it's just not all of us.”

“It seems the more I play Jane Austen, the more poetic my writing becomes. The other day, I left a Post-it note for my husband that had the word 'ergo' on it. I gotta rein it in before I get all full out Madonnannoying.”

“The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.”

“And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.”

“The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.”