Top 35 Lindsay Mendez Quotes

I loved ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and I’m a huge Judy Garland fan, too.

I was born in Southern California in a city called Norwalk. I grew up there until I moved up to New York when I was 18.

I have a major love for musical theatre, including a lot of stuff I don’t get to do very often.

I feel like I do my best work under fear of being fired.

I’ve always been afraid to do a solo show. When I go to see the great solo shows of Liz Callaway or Christine Ebersole, they have so many incredible stories to talk about, and their material and lives are so rich. I’ve always worried that my life was not rich enough.

I want to scare myself when I choose what I want to work on.

I think it’s important to play real people.

I’m a big Broadway fan and a big MGM fan.

I did ‘The Sound of Music.’ That was my first musical.

I love my body. I love representing people who aren’t stick figures, because people aren’t.

I don’t look like a chorus girl.

I’ve never been a bridesmaid.

Judy Garland, Doris Day, and Gene Kelly were all big influences growing up from all of the films. I’m also a huge folk music fan – Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan have influenced a lot of how music can inspire change in our world.

Being called ugly every day is not easy on the psyche.

I’ve never been a thin girl. I grew up being – I don’t want to say a plus-size girl, but a girl of curves and substance.

I’m a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn’t really see myself in that. Not that I didn’t grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don’t know – I just never put myself there.

I think people feel completely stunted without an agent, but there’s a lot of auditions to be had without one and a lot to be learned before you take an agent on.

With ‘Wicked,’ I was stepping into a role that I didn’t make so that felt like I had more boundaries then I did with ‘Carousel.’

I think I’m the person who keeps friends from hitting ‘send.’ I’ve definitely helped people go through emails before sending them. I’m a good proofreader.

‘Dogfight’ is my favorite thing I’ve ever worked on. It’s such a special piece, and I’m so close to the character of Rose. I loved doing it every night.

‘Dogfight’ was everything wonderful and terrifying about a show, and I feel it 1,000% gave me the knowledge and the confidence that I could do this. I can step up and be present enough to command scenes with amazing actors.

Getting an agent is hard, and I also think people rush to get an agent too soon.

The first time I didn’t get called back at an audition, I cried. My mom told me, ‘We’re doing this for fun, and if it’s not fun anymore, we’re not going to do it. So if you ever cry again, we’re going to stop.’ I never cried from then on, and I kept that lesson for the rest of my life.

I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

I have a group of fans who pitched in and named a star after me… So. Cool.

People learn from their mistakes and move forward.

I started taking voice when I was six and dance classes every day – I just couldn’t get enough.

It’s nice to be with a male energy as opposed to a female energy. It’s very different.

I teach a lot of young musical theatre actors, and I notice that a lot of them say that they have a harder time connecting the classic repertoire.

I have a big persona onstage sometimes, but offstage, I’m super shy. Like, I don’t want to perform for people – I’d rather die than sing in a room for someone.

When I was 12, I played Dorothy in my community theatre production of ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and it was very critically hailed by my school paper!

I learned by watching Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.

I loved working on ‘Dogfight,’ but when I first read it and wrapped my head around the story, I was a little horrified.

At ‘Wicked,’ they are really great about letting you make your own choices with the roles.

I’ve always had a big voice, but I’m very aware of when you need to belt or go all out like that – when it’s necessary and plot driven – as opposed to just screaming to scream, which I hate.