Jane Krakowski
I still get thrilled by the energy that is a live performance, the fear and the panic and the electricity that happens on the night. I think jolting myself every once in a while with that fear is a good thing for me.Collection: Fear
I visited Krakow about 10 years ago, and when you're named Krakowski, you are very welcomed. I loved every minute of it. They had 'Ally McBeal' on Polish TV. People offered to drive us out to our family's farm.Collection: Family
Yes, I have a good sense of humor to sort of last a long time in show business, and I think to be able to find comedic value in who you are and the people that you work is always a good thing.Collection: Humor
The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just incredible.Collection: Amazing
You can have a plan, but you have to be flexible. Every day is unpredictable, and you just have to go with the flow.
I love the story of how my parents met because it seems very 1950s Brooklyn. They met on a brownstone stoop as my father was singing a little doo-wop.
My new favourite smell is new baby smell. It makes me so happy. If someone could bottle that, I'd love to have it.
I think when I was younger, I strived for perfection. And now I strive for my imperfections because I think they're more interesting.
My great-grandparents came from Poland. Interestingly enough, they were named Adam and Eve. But I do not believe they are the original.
Once you learn how to roller skate for 'Starlight Express,' it's a lifelong skill you have acquired.
If I could do theater during the hiatus and then do '30 Rock' in the winter, that would be my ideal job.
I love to roller skate.
That's why I love doing live theater more than anything: You get an immediate reaction, whether it's good or bad.
I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I saw every Broadway show as a kid.
I am someone who puts their takeout or leftovers into the Tupperware and stores it in the refrigerator overnight.
If I'm ever lucky enough to be part of an awards tribute, I hope they play 'Muffin Top' in my little clip. That's how I want to be remembered.
My parents were involved in community theater in New Jersey. Instead of hiring a baby sitter, they would take me with them. So my love of acting seeped in from watching my parents and seeing them having fun.
I never thought I'd sing or dance on national television.
I'm a girl from Jersey.
It takes a lot out of you to do a one-hour episodic lead of a show. I don't think actors realize that when they take the job.
I consider myself to be more real-sized than most of the actresses in California and in show business. They're very small. They're like miniature people.
People's arrest tapes, mug shots, everything is online.
I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.
The excitement of being in a rehearsal room is good for me.
Even though we all know the facts, it's hard to resist the lure of a tan.
Who wouldn't want to be an 'American Idol' judge? It's an awesome, awesome show.
I had a really tragic cut at the beginning of Season 2 of 'Ally McBeal.' Someone convinced me that it would be good to layer my hair. I basically looked like Ronald McDonald.
Oh, I'll tell you about 'Anyone Can Whistle' - the lesson I learned with doing that record is that the simplest songs are the hardest to do.
I am always in much better shape when I am doing a Broadway show because you have the eight shows a week to kind of keep the body clean and perfect in a sense, you know? For instance, I always eat much better when I am in a show because you can't have dairy - for your voice.
I'm willing to go further than other people on camera.
I'm a New York girl. I want to stay here and raise my son here.
Cheyenne Jackson is just a dream.
I have been lucky to be surrounded by other great working moms, like Tina Fey. I've certainly taken a lot of advice from her in every realm, from actor choices to mom choices.
There's never enough hours in the day to do what you want to do. What I've become OK with is that not everything can be done today. As long as I can get that time in with my son, then I can get all of the other stuff done today or tomorrow.
I'm always awoken with the joyous sound and laughter of my son. That's the best part about being a mom.
I think it's hilarious at 40 years old to bring out my roller skates from 'Starlight Express.' I find the humor and even the sadness in it hilarious and something to celebrate.
I will very happily grow old in the comedic world of Tina Fey and Robert Carlock, if they would keep having me over and over.
I feel like I eat pretty clean as my regular routine. I eat a lot of steamed vegetables, steamed chicken. I don't eat that much meat. I'd be maybe, I would say, 90 percent vegetarian. Mostly just because I like the way it makes me feel, not other reasons.
I think I used to sort of segregate things. Work was this and life was this and exercise was this. And I feel as I get older, or I become more relaxed, I feel like wellness is my whole being.
There are days that I love just devoting to going to the park and playing with my son, but then sometimes you have to leave out other things, or if work is a full day of work, perhaps I miss the play time with my son, and I guess the only struggle is trying to not shortchange any of the things that you want to do.
I, like almost every actor in the world, auditioned for 'Friends.' I wish I had gotten that one. I actually auditioned for Rachel and didn't go very far.
I don't think I do anything that well, but I do a little bit of everything!
I hope wit comes through in all the characters I portray.
I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.
Female movie stars from the pre-Code era of Hollywood, like Mae West, could be so raunchy and witty before they were edited. Sometimes they could go further in their wit than we go now.
What I love about doing live theater and the same material night after night is... you can live inside the same words. There comes a great joy in that, in making it so clear because you've had the time to define it.
My motto is 'In Tina Fey I trust.'
I would love to play Dot in 'Sunday in the Park with George.' It's one of my dream roles - to play Dot.
I have trouble keeping plants alive. Even plastic ones.
Straight men should take a thirteen-week course from a gay man to fully appreciate what's fabulous about women.