Megan Hilty Quotes

#1. To be a series regular for two seasons taught me so much about what it takes to be on a TV schedule and work those kind of hours and just work in front of a camera in general.

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#2. Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning.

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#3. I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.

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#4. My version of lip-synching is singing full-out with the track.

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#5. Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!'

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#6. My feet are my foundation, and they should always feel good!

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#7. I totally let myself indulge, but I make little deals with myself. If I have an extra cupcake, I'll run a couple of extra miles. I think it's all about balance and not getting into extremes with dieting and exercising. Having a healthy attitude is important, too!

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#8. I am not a writer.

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#9. I'm a huge holiday person. I love having parties and giving gifts.

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#10. I'm a sucker for French fries - I love that they're salty!

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#11. The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.

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#12. [Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal

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#13. Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.

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#14. I'd love to do 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' again - especially on Broadway.

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#15. Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.

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#16. I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.

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#17. I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

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#18. I have to say, speaking from experience, just because an actor starts out in a role in the workshop, they won't necessarily play it when it goes to Broadway.

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#19. I essentially get to represent my community on television.

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#20. I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.

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#21. Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.

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#22. I met the man of my dreams at a gym, and then we got married in Vegas - because we're classy. When you meet at a gym, where else do you get married?

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#23. I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.

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#24. When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.

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#25. It's every singer's dream to get to Carnegie Hall.

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#26. As an actress, I learned a long time ago that there is a lot of this business that is just out of my hands. All I can really focus on is going to work every day and doing my best.

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#27. I want to do everything, and I don't think that's too ambitious.

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#28. I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.

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#29. Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard.

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#30. The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.

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#31. I've never been so star struck in my life as when I met President Obama and Bill Clinton ... and at the same time, no less! I'm not one to be at a loss for words, and that was a moment when I really was speechless. It was a big, big night.

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#32. I have two Jack Russell terriers, Harley and Gracie, who I like to go running with in the park.

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#33. It's so much easier to complain about something than celebrate it.

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#34. I could sit around and cry about losing jobs because I'm not a TV star, or I could go and take something into my own hands and try to make it in this world, too.

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#35. Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

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#36. I am constantly on the move, and if I experience foot discomfort, it makes my job really hard to do.

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#37. You always hear about how women working together will catfight.

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#38. Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.

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#39. The show tune I can never get out of my head is 'Oh, What A Beautiful Morning' from 'Oklahoma!' I don't know why.

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#40. I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

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#41. I just like working. I'm not good with downtime. I need to be doing something. I'm a music person, so I'll always have that going ... whether or not I'm getting paid for it . It was different to go into talk shows and performances by myself.

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#42. I always joke that everything else that I do is to support my theater habit.

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#43. I always thought Broadway's the goal, and then I moved out to L.A. with 'Wicked' and started doing guest-star spots and little recurring things, and I was like, 'Well, this is pretty great; I'm kind of digging this.'

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#44. I secretly love the song 'No More Tears.' It's my go-to karaoke song that I do with all my friends.

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#45. People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'

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#46. I was a huge fan of Damien Rice - and I am a huge fan still!

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#47. Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

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#48. It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!

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#49. The musical based on my life would most likely be called 'Something Fabulous.' 'Something Fabulous' - that's a great title!

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#50. I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.

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