Sutton Foster
One of the things I admire most about millennials is they celebrate individualism, and their singularity is encouraged. To be different is to be cool as opposed to weird.Collection: Cool
I think of fitness as being about heart health and staying strong and agile. That actually makes me go to the gym. I used to hate it, and you couldn't drag me there, but now I can't stand it if I don't go, which seems weird.Collection: Fitness
I try to have a very optimistic outlook on life. I try not to take anything too seriously. I try to - and I do - find a ton of joy and happiness in my life, and I think that helps you stay youthful.Collection: Happiness
You can't be afraid. You have to be open. I feel like I've always been a leaper, and I've always leapt into things without thinking.
I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I don't really know what my life is right now. It's not what I thought it'd be at 37, and I think a lot of people can relate to that.
I'd had the theater background for so long that I know that world inside out; I just didn't know the pace of how a TV set works, like how a show shoots.
I have my little craft bag that I bring with me to set everywhere I go.
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.
Every character I've played is goofy, but it has to have some type of reality.
I was so grateful to work on 'Bunheads.' We had so much material, and everything was so rapid-fire, and I developed - through theater too, I developed a really great work ethic. I think preparing for both of them is just that - you come to set ready to go, ready to play. You know your lines. You're ready to work.
Well, I was such a huge fan of Amy Sherman-Palladino and of 'Gilmore Girls.'
I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid.
I don't think of myself as a dancer. I think of myself as a singer-actress who moves really well.
And, as an adult, I tried skiing, and I ended up in tears.
I grew up sort of a geeky, tall kid, and I think I was always the one trying to make my friends laugh.
I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.
I only tweet about food and silly things, but it's really fascinating because I get a lot of response on Twitter, and I'm always looking at the type of people who write me on there, and it is such a variety.
It's weird to have leisure - to have time off. I'm not used to it.
I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.
I'm used to working hard. Theater can be very grueling, and that's all I've ever known. It's what I've done for 20 years, which is crazy.
I loved New York, but I never quite felt like New York was my home either.
I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.
I think Amy Sherman-Palladino has a very specific voice; it's unlike anyone else on television.
I used to cross-stitch because my mom cross-stitched.
My brother is about six years older, and I've always looked up to him.
There's a reason I'm on a show called 'Younger,' because I still think... in every aspect of my life, I'm five or 10 years behind in my mind.
My No. 1 piece of advice, especially for someone who's an actor-singer-dancer - a triple threat, they're called! - people say, 'What's the most important?' I always say acting. Without knowing why you're singing or what you're singing about, it's just noise. And without knowing why you're moving your body, it's just flailing of arms.
I don't deny myself anything - I do whatever I want in the moment - but I feel like moderation is the thing that can really sustain you for the rest of your life.
One thing I think I'm really proud of is that I started taking care of my skin at a young age.
I really do believe that youth comes from how you look at the world.
I'm a T-shirts, sweatpants, and jeans kind of gal; I dress really simply and comfortably. But one of the things I love about being an actor is that I get to wear amazing costumes.
Coming from the theatre, I have played some fabulous characters where I get to wear gowns, and I get to be a princess or someone from the 1920s, or I get to wear showgirl costumes. I'm used to wearing a wardrobe that changes how I feel. It's a bit of an outside-in approach - so often, the clothing can reveal so much about a character.
I think a lot of your 20s is trying to figure out who you are - you're on your own; you've got you first job. You've got your first apartment. You're living away from your parents. You're just discovering who you are.
I feel incredibly passionate about 'Bunheads,' but the network was not supportive of the show, and you have to have that.
Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino gave me such a gift with 'Bunheads,' and to give me this gift of going on 'Gilmore Girls' was beyond. It was awesome.
I'm like a little Pollyanna. I look at the world with rose-colored glasses.
I've been, like, 15 my entire life.
I'm incredibly hopeful - in many ways, still very naive. I think a lot of that has helped me. My sort of naivete has sort of gotten me in trouble at times, but I haven't stopped myself from doing things.
When I was growing up, everyone dressed the same. You had to have bootcut pants and chunky heels.
I'm a fan of originals and classics, but I'm also a fan of new ideas.
I know there's Botox and all these skin-firming treatments, but I'm afraid they'll make me look weird.
They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don’t be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be.Collection: Success
I always say, "Don't let a 'no' or even a dismissal defeat you, let it be the fire that makes you want to go. Every time someone says, "No," that makes me even more determined. That's one of the things I want to try to teach young people. Oddly, the other thing I want to teach the young people is to get a hobby. That's what I first say: "Do something that brings you happiness other than acting, because this business is so fickle." I make blankets and stuffed animals. I don't know. I'm a weirdo.Collection: Animal
Everyone's "journey" is different. Obviously with mine, I've had some amazing breaks, but then you have to be ready to seize the moment when the timing and the luck line up. You can't be afraid. You have to be open. I feel like I've always been a leaper, and I've always leapt into things without thinking.Collection: Journey
I try to have a very optimistic outlook on life, I try not to take anything too seriously, I try to and I do find a ton of joy and happiness in my life and I think that helps you stay youthful.Collection: Optimistic
It's okay not to know everything; that would have calmed me down.Collection: Okay
Even when I’m not working, I’m still working on something because I just want to create something.Collection: Want
I made things a lot harder than they needed to be out of fear and anxiety.Collection: Anxiety
It's a bit of an outside-in approach - so often the clothing can reveal so much about a character. It's like part of her superhero costume that she gets to put on and become someone else.Collection: Character