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Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.
- Jessie Mueller
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My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in the car, and we'd go on a lot of long family car trips. It was either strange musicals or James Taylor - or Whitney Houston. It was quite the combination there.
- Jessie Mueller
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#Dad
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#Long
I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.
- Jessie Mueller
#Acting
#American
#Day
#Doing
#Idiot
My first professional gig was 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Drury Lane Oakbrook... I was in the ensemble. I was one of the ladies in waiting, and I covered Winnifred.
- Jessie Mueller
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#Lane
#Once
#Professional
#Waiting
I went to Syracuse University.
- Jessie Mueller
#Syracuse
#University
The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.
- Jessie Mueller
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#Important
#Living
#Storytelling
Some of the best actors think they're terrible; that's what keeps you connected to a vulnerability that makes it possible for people to empathize with you.
- Jessie Mueller
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#People
#Possible
#Vulnerability
I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't want to become a waitress here.
- Jessie Mueller
#Great Work
#Great
#Mean
#New
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I didn't really start performing until high school. My whole family is actually in the business, and started in the business in Chicago, so I was going to shows when I was a teeny-tiny kid, but I didn't really start performing until high school.
- Jessie Mueller
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#Family
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#School
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'If I Loved You.' All the way. Totally intimidated by it. From the outside, it has this aura of being one of the greatest musical theater scenes ever written.
- Jessie Mueller
#Aura
#Greatest
#Loved
#Outside
#Way
I always loved playing the sidekick, and that's what I expected - I didn't think I was pretty enough or diva enough to play the lead.
- Jessie Mueller
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#Diva
#Enough
#Lead
#Loved
I really feel strongly that we don't need to dumb things down for children.
- Jessie Mueller
#Children
#Down
#Dumb
#Feel
#Need
Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.
- Jessie Mueller
#Girl
#Growing Up
#Never
#Pretty Girl
#Up
'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.
- Jessie Mueller
#Christmas
#Golden
#Love
#Movies
#White
My reason for leaving 'Beautiful', because I had such an amazing time on that show, was by the time I left, I had been doing the show for almost two years. I was a little burnt out.
- Jessie Mueller
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#Beautiful
#Doing
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