Megan Hilty quotes:

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

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

You always hear about how women working together will catfight.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Every time I see a live performance of something, I'm like, 'I want to be doing that!'

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

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.

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.

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

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

As an actor, at least from my standpoint, I can't not like who I'm playing.

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.

I essentially get to represent my community on television.

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.

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