Keala Settle

Actress

47 Quotes

I've always been the biggest bully to myself.

Musically, I'm a huge fan of Stephen Sondheim, and I love, love 'Sweeney Todd.'

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

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.'

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.

As you get older, whatever your struggles may be - how you sound, how you look, how you dress - you grow into yourself a little bit more. You end up realizing the world wants you and not a carbon copy of six other people.

It takes a damn village to get a show on Broadway!

Women put ourselves through so much. Really, everybody does; it's not a gendered thing. I think all of us are always gonna be tortured by some sense of inadequacy, no matter what. I don't know if there's a way to tell people not do this to themselves.

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

When I was younger, my mother wanted me to look like Claudia Schiffer. I was like, 'We're not even German, but all right.'

Music was always a part of my life.

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

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

Broadway is really, really hard.

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.

I was born and raised in Hawaii.

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.

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.

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

The parts that I get to play are not based around the European beauty standards: They're more about character, and I love that.

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