Jennifer Damiano Quotes

I can now put 'experienced aerialist' on my resume.

I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more.

I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.

I'm really excited about the revolution that is young people actually playing young people on Broadway.

I was born in Westchester, NY. I grew up around the Rye Brook area, and then I moved to White Plains with my family.

Somewhere during the 'Next to Normal' Broadway run, I found myself learning more about myself onstage than in real life, and I truly realized the beautiful, tremendous, extraordinary gift that is performing.

I was feeling like a real misfit in middle school, but when I saw 'Wicked,' it made me feel really cool for being different ... and you can carve that in stone!

I'm always trying to convince myself there's something important about what I do. But some peoples' lives are really altered by a night at the theater.

Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah.

I feel like it's important, especially at young age, to find exactly what it is that makes your style so important as opposed to just trying to fit into the iconic styles of performers out there.

I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little - I had so many.

There's no better feeling than being on a Broadway stage for me.

I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.

Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.'

I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!

I'm so thankful for my one year at regular high school in White Plains.

A lot of teenagers have parents that are maybe a little too real with them.

I think it's really easy to just get caught up in what everyone else is doing, so I think the most important thing to remember is to be really strong in your own shoes. That is the main thing for me. The one thing that kind of gets in my way sometimes is when I'm a little too aware of everybody else.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

'The Next Ten Minutes' from 'The Last Five Years' is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.

I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.

I have worked hard in my career, but I have been lucky as well.

I think my great-grandpa was an opera singer or something.

Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.