Quotes from Chandra Wilson

I cannot get into cottage cheese, and I've tried a lot. Yogurt is hard for me to eat, too. I have to hold my nose to get it down. There's something wrong with that.

My first show was 'The King and I' when I was five.

I was an only child for 16 years. I didn't realize it at the time, but that experience definitely turned me into a people pleaser. I always tried to do what was expected of me, and I constantly sought reassurance from the adults around me that I was doing a good job.

I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.

Directing is its own monster with its own set of muscles and exercises.

I started in musical theater as a little girl in Houston.

When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offered at the time and I didn't win that one, but that didn't stop me. I went on to college anyway. I worked my way through it and paid my student loans for 11 years.

It's very difficult to advocate for yourself while you're in excruciating pain.

When someone new takes over a role, the company doesn't change anything from the script, but they do lay it all out there and let people take from it what they take from it.