Susan Egan Quotations

Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work.

Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be in theatre, and it's really not true.

I grew up listening to Bernadette Peters, Patti LuPone, and Angela Lansbury, so I grew up wanting to sound like Patti and Bernadette. What I realized, though, is that I can't sound like that, and what makes their performances magical is their uniqueness.

I did 'Beauty and the Beast' like 780 times. And so there are going to be nights when things go wrong, like the set breaks down or the Beast mistakenly pulls your wig off.

He felt so horrible. It actually hurt. He was pulling something else away from me, and he couldn't feel anything. That wig was really pinned in. Not to mention that in my wig cap I looked like I was bald on the Broadway stage. He bought me a little cactus with a cactus flower on it the next day.

He was big and brown and furry and my hair was brown. He kind of tossed it into the wings so it looked particularly ridiculous. I'm sure afterwards he thought about a million things he could have done, but it's always like that, isn't it?

My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it.

You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.

I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

And I thought, I've just sent 1,200 children into therapy. I left the stage and fell into hysterics in the wings and looked back on stage and saw the Beast holding my hair. I laughed because he then had to sing a ballad holding this pony tail with this big, huge blue bow on it. I thought that was the funniest thing I'd ever seen.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

I think people are surprised to learn that Im pretty goofy and pretty funny.

You never know what your opportunities are going to be.

If you're not getting any bad reviews, you're not taking enough risks