Audra Mcdonald Quotes

#1. I lost a Tony award to Broadway legend Audra McDonald when I was twelve so I've been a bitter bitch since before my first period.

Anna Kendrick

#2. I certainly miss playing piano, and I really wish I did it more - it's really a very therapeutic thing to do for me. I just need to be home for more than a few minutes to be able to play more, I guess.

Audra McDonald

#3. flute. As I stood in the doorway, he lingered over it, then, carefully rewrapping it, placed it in his box of treasured things. I never saw the flute again. *

Mildred D. Taylor

#4. You must have your player's heads and hearts before they will do anything for you

Lawrence Frank

#5. Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you.

Malcolm X

#6. Scientifically speaking, there is tribalism and group bias, but there cannot be any such thing as racism. We are all one.

Bill Nye

#7. I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient. I will be different tomorrow. I will grow and I am not deficient.

Wayne Dyer

#8. 'Go Back Home' encompasses not only actual geographic location but also, for me, back home in the worlds of music and theatre, and back home in terms of making albums again. There are lots of meanings to that.

Audra McDonald

#9. I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Brian Wilson

#10. Although both were lost in their own individual worlds, they shared the same space and time.

John Connolly

#11. Knowledge of one's identity, one's self, community, nation, religion, and God, is the true meaning of resurrection, while ignorance of it signifies hell.

Elijah Muhammad

#12. The exercise of freedom invariably results in some choices that are unwise or wrong. But, by living with the consequences of his foolish choices a man learns to choose more wisely next time.

Edmund A. Opitz

#13. I loved my time doing 'Private Practice' in Los Angeles, and I was quite challenged and excited to learn about the art of television, but I missed being on the stage.

Audra McDonald

#14. I auditioned for Julliard because I wanted to live in New York, and I wanted to be on Broadway at the time. Julliard seemed like right way to get there.

Audra McDonald

#15. When you become a parent, it blows you open in ways that you never thought possible in terms of a level of love that I know I never thought I could possibly have.

Audra McDonald

#16. I admire but don't envy people who have children and also have big, wonderful perfect houses. Maybe Martha Stewart could do it; to me those two things aren't compatible, but I know our children will grow up with a feeling that home is a place of comfort.

Audra McDonald

#17. I want to thank all the shoulders of the strong and brave and courageous women that I am standing on,

Audra McDonald

#18. Anytime I get the chance to sing or work with Michael John, it is such an incredibly fertile and incredibly creative and safe and encouraging environment - and challenging, too, because he is so collaborative!

Audra McDonald

#19. La Griffe, "The Claw." Simple and small. The index finger goes through the hole near the blade. Favored by climbers and boaters.

David Morrell

#20. One thing that is constantly on my iPod is India Arie - I like her a lot; I listen to her a lot. I think she is just a spectacular artist.

Audra McDonald

#21. philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art

Friedrich Schlegel

#22. God answered prayers first by teaching the need to ask, second by using friends as holy messengers.

Davis Bunn

#23. The interrogation has succeeded; I am now an enemy of the state. ... I have become a violent act of reality inflicted upon the fiction of which we are both citizens. I want him to know that I understand this, that every thump of his truncheon hardens my resolve, that he has my permission.

Anthony Marra

#24. The authentic Gullah dialect is actually very clipped, and so it would sound almost Jamaican and be very odd to an American audience's ears. It's not the typical Southern dialect that we're used to.

Audra McDonald

#25. I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.

Audra McDonald

#26. When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box.

Audra McDonald

#27. I choose things that challenge me. I was afraid of the camera - that's why I chose to do 'Private Practice.' It's not like I left the theater.

Audra McDonald

#28. And I found the theater, and I found my home.

Audra McDonald

#29. When I first was exposed to 'Porgy and Bess' many, many years ago, I was blown away by it - loved the music, overwhelmed by the production at the Met that I saw, and thought I want to play Bess someday. But I also knew they were stereotypes that were considered racist.

Audra McDonald

#30. Men works by preference, not by logic.

Soseki Natsume

#31. I used to practice Tony speeches in my bathroom with my hairbrush.

Audra McDonald

#32. Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.

Audra McDonald

#33. I feel a connection to many songs that I won't sing because I don't think they are right for me! There is something in my gut that immediately responds. There's no science to it.

Audra McDonald

#34. I tried to kill myself. It was a feeble attempt, but I did. And I got put in a mental hospital for a month, and I got myself straight and worked on my mental health ... it's nothing that I hide. It's nothing to be proud of or to be ashamed of. It's part of my life, you know? And I'm still here!

Audra McDonald

#35. And if you hear something you know, please sing along. No wait - I take that back - you can't sing along - this is about me now - this is my show.

Audra McDonald