“I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to ...” — Laura Benanti Quote

“I love doing concerts. For me, it's the favorite thing I do. I get to communicate with the audience in a direct way.”

“There's a lot of pressure on Broadway. There's this feeling that the show has to be a commercial success and the producers have to make their money back and Tonys and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.”

“I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.”

“I like to investigate all different kinds of people, I guess, and find out what makes them who they are, and try to be honest in the portrayal, and truthful, and find out how to understand that person, how to communicate that person's experience.”

“I don't watch that much TV, so I can't compare one show to another. When I watch television, I watch people talking to one another usually or a science show where they show me microbes, you know. Microbes actually communicate quite a bit, and so there's a lot of talking going on.”