About Idina Menzel: Idina Kim Menzel is an American actress and singer.
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.'
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.
The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
As I get older, I realize all I've done is sing and act and hone those skills.
Everything's always about being homogenized and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems.
I always like to sing barefoot.
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.
I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.
Who am I, if I'm not this singer with big high notes? I identify with my voice. But I'm more than just the acrobatics.
Growing up I studied classically and did lots of shows in school.
When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, an...
It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.
I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.
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.
I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.
My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.
I think that if you're doing a new musical, you want to have the opportunity to experiment and try things without the whole city of critics looking over your shoulder.
If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my ...
