“I talk fast, I'm always running from one thing to another, and I tend ...” — Channing Dungey Quote

I talk fast, I'm always running from one thing to another, and I tend to gesture a lot with my hands when I talk.

I feel like there's always a lot of curiosity about what happens in America.

What I love about 'American Idol' is that it's broad.

I do want to focus on shows that are lighter, brighter, more emotional: shows that give the audience a chance to connect and to feel.

Diversity is enormously important to me.

When I was at the top, my mother was helping other girls. I thought it was a beautiful gesture and that I should continue it in her name.

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musical gesture has to propel the journey of a given character or the overall plot.

We are in every gesture what we were and what we will be.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.