Megan Hilty Quotes

“I met the man of my dreams at a gym, and then we got married in Vegas - because we're classy. When you meet at a gym, where else do you get married?”

— Megan Hilty

“Being in a recording studio is a very different feel from performing onstage. I mean, obviously, you can't just go in and do what you would do onstage. It reads differently.”

— Megan Hilty

“I've never been so star struck in my life as when I met President Obama and Bill Clinton ... and at the same time, no less! I'm not one to be at a loss for words, and that was a moment when I really was speechless. It was a big, big night.”

— Megan Hilty

“Breakups are hard for anybody, and no matter how it happens or ends up, they're just hard.”

— Megan Hilty

“It's every singer's dream to get to Carnegie Hall.”

— Megan Hilty

“I totally let myself indulge, but I make little deals with myself. If I have an extra cupcake, I'll run a couple of extra miles. I think it's all about balance and not getting into extremes with dieting and exercising. Having a healthy attitude is important, too!”

— Megan Hilty

Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.

— Megan Hilty

“I'd love to do 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' again - especially on Broadway.”

— Megan Hilty

“I'm a sucker for French fries - I love that they're salty!”

— Megan Hilty

“I get nervous about everything. I think there's something wrong if you don't get nervous.”

— Megan Hilty

“It's so much easier to complain about something than celebrate it.”

— Megan Hilty

“The musical based on my life would most likely be called 'Something Fabulous.' 'Something Fabulous' - that's a great title!”

— Megan Hilty

“You always hear about how women working together will catfight.”

— Megan Hilty

I always joke that everything else that I do is to support my theater habit.

— Megan Hilty

“I secretly love the song 'No More Tears.' It's my go-to karaoke song that I do with all my friends.”

— Megan Hilty

“I want to do everything, and I don't think that's too ambitious.”

— Megan Hilty

I wanted to be Whitney Houston at first, and when I started taking voice lessons, my voice teacher kind of geared me more towards opera.

— Megan Hilty

“I was a huge fan of Damien Rice - and I am a huge fan still!”

— Megan Hilty

I've been very lucky to work with a lot of amazingly supportive directors.

— Megan Hilty

“Don't get me wrong - I like to rest a little bit. But I don't do well with downtime.”

— Megan Hilty

“I am constantly on the move, and if I experience foot discomfort, it makes my job really hard to do.”

— Megan Hilty

“I come from the theater. Nothing is as difficult as working eight shows a week. Period. End of story.”

— Megan Hilty

“I decided I was going to be an opera star. I was about 12.”

— Megan Hilty

“I have two Jack Russell terriers, Harley and Gracie, who I like to go running with in the park.”

— Megan Hilty

“I look at my Twitter feed sometimes, and there's just people tearing apart other performers.”

— Megan Hilty

“I'm a huge holiday person. I love having parties and giving gifts.”

— Megan Hilty

It's so funny because people always think of me as being a little bit country or assume that I am from the South - I don't know why!

— Megan Hilty

My feet are my foundation, and they should always feel good!

— Megan Hilty

“My version of lip-synching is singing full-out with the track.”

— Megan Hilty

“People think that theater actors are too big for the camera. It's like, 'No, we're actors and we adjust for our audience.'”

— Megan Hilty

“The great thing about doing a series about the Broadway community is that the possibilities are endless.”

— Megan Hilty

“The show tune I can never get out of my head is 'Oh, What A Beautiful Morning' from 'Oklahoma!' I don't know why.”

— Megan Hilty

“The thing about making a musical is that you can and will be replaceable really quickly.”

— Megan Hilty

Theater was a big part of my life from the beginning.

— Megan Hilty

“Well, as an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.”

— Megan Hilty

“Yes, yes, theater in general is just going to always be my first love, performing for a live audience.”

— Megan Hilty

“I always thought Broadway's the goal, and then I moved out to L.A. with 'Wicked' and started doing guest-star spots and little recurring things, and I was like, 'Well, this is pretty great; I'm kind of digging this.'”

— Megan Hilty

As an actress, I learned a long time ago that there is a lot of this business that is just out of my hands. All I can really focus on is going to work every day and doing my best.

— Megan Hilty

“I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.”

— Megan Hilty

“I could sit around and cry about losing jobs because I'm not a TV star, or I could go and take something into my own hands and try to make it in this world, too.”

— Megan Hilty

I have to say, speaking from experience, just because an actor starts out in a role in the workshop, they won't necessarily play it when it goes to Broadway.

— Megan Hilty

“I look at the people's careers who I want to emulate, like Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Bernadette Peters ... They've all found the key to longevity in this business, and that is diversifying, doing as many things as possible to keep yourself relevant, and so hopefully I'm on the same track as all those amazing women.”

— Megan Hilty

“I think the only way you can really grow is if you push yourself and put yourself in uncomfortable positions and doing things that you're not used to; it's exciting.”

— Megan Hilty

“To be a series regular for two seasons taught me so much about what it takes to be on a TV schedule and work those kind of hours and just work in front of a camera in general.”

— Megan Hilty

“Even when I was doing theater it was more comedic. Don't get me wrong, I love doing the dramatic and heavy stuff, but I just want to have fun. I want to make people laugh.”

— Megan Hilty

“I am still so proud to have been a part of something that introduced theater to so many people who weren't exposed to it before. We took Broadway and put it in peoples' living rooms once a week for two seasons. People still come up to me in the street and say, 'I never went to theater before I saw "Smash.'" That's the greatest compliment.”

— Megan Hilty

“When you go to karaoke with a professional singer and they really start singing, there's no bigger buzzkill than that.”

— Megan Hilty

I just like working. I'm not good with downtime. I need to be doing something. I'm a music person, so I'll always have that going ... whether or not I'm getting paid for it . It was different to go into talk shows and performances by myself.

— Megan Hilty

“[Composers] Mark [Shaiman] and Scott [Wittman] are unreal”

— Megan Hilty

“I essentially get to represent my community on television.”

— Megan Hilty