Quotes from Jennifer Damiano

In 'Next to Normal,' I had millions of breakdowns and panic attacks, but nobody ever heard about those.

I legit can not parallel park. This is no joke!

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

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

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

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'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.

You have to learn how to take care of yourself.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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.

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.

I listen to a lot of indie or rock music.

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.

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

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

I was pretty new to the Broadway world once I began working in it. I hadn't really grown up being too aware of that many shows or that many actors in shows. I was always obsessed with Judy Garland, though.