Quotes from Keala Settle

No one can bully me better than me. I'm the first person to the party going, 'Don't worry - you don't have to cut me down, 'cause I'm already there.' I struggled with all those voices and gave them so much power, to the point where they took over my life.

Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.

My goal is to stay in good health, and every day, I wake up and pray that I do.

My mother played guitar by ear, and all of us sang except my father, bless his heart.

Broadway is really, really hard.

I've always been the biggest bully to myself.

I was successfully hiding from the world on Broadway for about 25 years.

For me, I want to say whether or not you believe in God - or a universe of any kind that's watching over any of us - you can have faith that things will go your way as much as you want to, and they won't.

There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'

No one was created to be alone.

I have a lot of cultures within me - I'm basically chop suey.

I love people that go the distance. I hate things that are lukewarm. They've got to be one way or the other and go all the way.

We weren't wearing shoes on a full-time basis until prom.

I was causing trouble in high school, and in order to get me to stop and to pass, they put me into theater, and I ended up winning a Shakespeare competition. All I had to do was imitate people properly, and I ended up going to the finals when I was about 16.

If someone puts a character in front of me - no matter what it is, whether there has been a film or not - I want to be that character, not imitate it. There's a difference - a big difference.

Everyone makes mistakes, and we need to learn to forgive ourselves.

My mother taught us all to bake. It literally calmed us down, and she was able to get rid of all her frustrations.

What is so beautiful about a composer and a lyricist is that their job is to push a story along and not halt it.

I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go.

I was born and raised in Hawaii.

'Miscast' is a family affair. It highlights so many different aspects of the industry in that one night, and it's a great evening.

To be honest, being a fat girl, when people are telling you you need to eat, it's the biggest thrill of your life.

As a human being, you find a way to survive, moment by moment, every single day of your life.

On days I'm not working, I don't wear a ton of other makeup, but if I have to look like I care, I'll use this By Terry Ombre Blackstar eye shadow stick in Frozen Quartz and Eyeko mascara.