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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

Innocence, Maintain, Your, Your Child

All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.

- Idina Menzel

Love, Destiny, Through, Performers

With young people, I always say, 'You're not doing anyone any favours by withholding your power.' As women, we do that a lot because we are afraid of being misunderstood or perceived as too strong. But the older I'm getting, the more I realise you have to let that go.

- Idina Menzel

Strong, Doing, Withholding, Perceived

As an artist, you have to express yourself. I make no excuses for my versatility. I grew up singing classical arias, but I love rock n' roll and jazz standards.

- Idina Menzel

Love, Singing, Artist, Versatility

After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home.

- Idina Menzel

Work, Back, Broadway, Welcomed

I can sing 'Happy Birthday' to you in twelve different places, but one of them is going to make you feel a certain thing, maybe it's a vulnerability, maybe an innocence, maybe another way is sexy and soulful or bluesy whatever it is, but with singers, exploring keys, I think, is important.

- Idina Menzel

Birthday, Innocence, I Think, Another Way

Believe me, I don't take that lightly. To have struck gold twice with 'Rent' and 'Wicked.' I know it's rare and I'm very lucky to have that kind of phenomenon in my life. They're not just great shows, they're shows that resonate with young audiences.

- Idina Menzel

My Life, Lucky, Very, Wicked

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

Young, Each One, Tickets, Wicked

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

Strength, Performer, Could, Wicked

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, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.

- Idina Menzel

Feet, London, Supportive, Wicked

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

- Idina Menzel

Doing, Favors, Withholding, Compromise

I've met so many of my idols, but the one person that has eluded me is Bono. But because he's done 'Spider-Man,' I keep thinking maybe, through a Broadway connection, somehow our paths will eventually merge.

- Idina Menzel

Through, Broadway, Maybe, Bono

I always like to sing barefoot, but when I first started doing these dates with the symphonies, I of course thought I should clean up my act, being a Jewish girl from Long Island with a little bit of a trucker mouth. So I wore a gown and some high heels.

- Idina Menzel

Long Island, Symphonies, Dates

I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.

- Idina Menzel

Think, Other, I Think, Smarter

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.

- Idina Menzel

Think, New, Over, Shoulder

They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

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Music, Song, Always, Orchestra

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

Shower, More, Very, Supplements

The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.

- Idina Menzel

Learn, More, Glass, Thicker

I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.

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Pattern, Tend, Characters, Misunderstood

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.

- Idina Menzel

Voice, Big, Notes, Who Am I

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

Other, Show, Kinds, Something Special

As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.

- Idina Menzel

Notes, Very, Putting, Category

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

- Idina Menzel

Intensity, Elaborate, Conductors

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

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Cool, Going, Everybody, Glee

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.

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Fact, I Think, Hid, Alienate

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.

- Idina Menzel

Some, Role, Young Girls, Gay Community

There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.

- Idina Menzel

Own, My Own, Like, Struggle

I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

- Idina Menzel

Strong, Passionate, Very, Struggle

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

My Own, Been, Mine, Camp

I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

- Idina Menzel

Love, Income, Accessible, Camp

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