“I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for chil...” — Jessie Mueller Quote

I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for children.

I watch Renee Fleming a lot. I listen to Renee Fleming a lot. She was like my built-in master class.

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.

There's not millions of dollars riding behind something - so I think a lot of people took chances on me and cast me in roles in Chicago that I never would have gotten cast in possibly if I had come to New York right away. I got to be the not-your-typical-choice for a role.

Oftentimes, I feel like the clock is on, and there's money at stake, and you gotta get up there and dance for grandma, and it better be great, and you better get it right.

Any time you employ thousands of people, some people do dumb things.

I'm not going to normally get hired to play those emotional things, and I'm capable of it. I was raised by a single mother in Iowa - I'm just trapped in a big, dumb body.

The music that I wrote and recorded is music that I really enjoy listening to. It's just dumb luck that a lot of other people do, too.

Dumb and tough goes a long way in this sport but to be elite, you've got to be smarter.

Newspapermen ask dumb questions. They look up at the sun and ask if it is shining.