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Idina Menzel Quotes

It’s been a dream of mine to run my own summer camp. I went to one as a kid, and I put on productions, and got lots of confidence.

– Idina Menzel

Nerves are good. They keep you alive.

– Idina Menzel

There are lots of things I’m acquainting myself with now to be a more well-rounded person.

– Idina Menzel

I’m more comfortable revealing myself than hiding behind metaphors. I respond to artists who reveal something of themselves.

– Idina Menzel

I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.

– Idina Menzel

I think I hid my singing talent from a lot of my friends at school because I didn’t want to alienate anyone. If everyone was singing along in the car to a Madonna song, I didn’t join in because when we’re younger we’re afraid of sticking out or showing off, when in fact we should own those things that make us really unique.

– Idina Menzel

‘Frozen’ definitely isn’t about a man, but about the relationship between two sisters. At different times in our lives we find ourselves either more connected to or disconnected from the people in our family, and I think audiences will really be able to relate to that.

– Idina Menzel

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music – jazz, swing, Motown, pop – and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

– Idina Menzel

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

– Idina Menzel

Everybody thinks it’s going to be so glamorous, so cool, you’re on ‘Glee,’ you know, a hit show or whatever.

– Idina Menzel

I’ve been singing since I was born. It’s something I do everywhere I go. In the shower, walking down the street. I don’t need any impetus to do it. I just sing.

– Idina Menzel

For me, ‘Rent’ was all about coming out of myself, finding out who I was, learning the power I could have as a performer. And ‘Wicked’ was about harnessing all that strength.

– Idina Menzel

A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

– Idina Menzel

Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam – in my steam shower. I find it’s very healing, more than just your typical ‘tea and honey.’

– Idina Menzel

I know I’m known for singing some of those high notes, but that’s really not what giving someone goosebumps is all about. It’s about really trying to find what makes you unique.

– Idina Menzel

I set the bar high because I don’t want to do just any other show just to keep working. I want to do something special that means something to people and speaks to them. Those kinds of opportunities don’t come along all the time!

– Idina Menzel

I’m smart enough to know to work with smart people.

– Idina Menzel

I sing in many different colors and, hopefully, they add up to a great performance that, after you leave the theater, makes you feel like I’ve really shared something of myself.

– Idina Menzel

It’s the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.

– Idina Menzel

You get to relive your childhood when you have a baby and you see these toys and these books you read when you were little – the innocence that you are able to maintain because you have to find that again in order to connect with your child keeps you in a special state of mind.

– Idina Menzel

As I get older, I realize all I’ve done is sing and act and hone those skills.

– Idina Menzel

Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It’s been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.

– Idina Menzel

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

– Idina Menzel

The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get older.

– Idina Menzel

You can’t be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn’t go.

– Idina Menzel

I keep saying, the older I get, the younger my audience gets. Because ‘Wicked’ and ‘Rent’ and ‘Glee,’ each one was a young audience, so it’s a great thing to have, so then you know that as they get older and have kids, they’ll maybe still buy tickets to my shows when I’m 80 and in Vegas!

– Idina Menzel

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I’m just being really tough on myself.

– Idina Menzel

That experience with ‘Rent’ went by so fast. I was younger. I didn’t even really know what opening night was. And now I’m thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt… And I’m realizing that I’m actually a part of that, so I’m learning to take it in, ’cause so often I shrug it away.

– Idina Menzel

I find that, maybe because I’m also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don’t sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

– Idina Menzel

I started singing weddings and bar mitzvahs at 15, lying about my age. It was a great discipline.

– Idina Menzel

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