Quotes from Megan Hilty

Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.

Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.

I totally let myself indulge, but I make little deals with myself. If I have an extra cupcake, I'll run a couple of extra miles. I think it's all about balance and not getting into extremes with dieting and exercising. Having a healthy attitude is important, too!

The show tune I can never get out of my head is 'Oh, What A Beautiful Morning' from 'Oklahoma!' I don't know why.

I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.

I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.

I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.

Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.

I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.

I've never been so star struck in my life as when I met President Obama and Bill Clinton... and at the same time, no less! I'm not one to be at a loss for words, and that was a moment when I really was speechless. It was a big, big night.

I met the man of my dreams at a gym, and then we got married in Vegas - because we're classy. When you meet at a gym, where else do you get married?

I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.

Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.

People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'

I want to do everything, and I don't think that's too ambitious.

My version of lip-synching is singing full-out with the track.

It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!

Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.

I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.

Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard.

As an actress, I learned a long time ago that there is a lot of this business that is just out of my hands. All I can really focus on is going to work every day and doing my best.