Melissa Benoist Quotes

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Melissa Benoist

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 4, 1988

Supergirl is this unattainable, idealistic optimist of an alien, and all of us can escape into her world, and she always saves the day.

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Essentially, what I do on 'Supergirl' is I'm acting out comic vignettes. That is its own muscle to flex, and it is its own skill.

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I always try to have my mother's voice in my head, because I am very proud of the morals that she tried to instill in us.

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TV sort of picked up for me before my theater career did.

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I've essentially done theater for more of my life than I've done television or film, and it's really something I feel I know better.

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I've been looking for a Broadway opportunity ever since I stopped doing theater.

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It's lucky that my life outside of work is so mellow; I'm really a homebody and a hermit, so I don't have to worry about blowing my voice out.

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I was Obi-Wan multiple years in a row. Alec Guinness' Obi-Wan. I was a Dalmatian once because I loved '101 Dalmatians,' and I think I was a Care Bear once and maybe a Spartan cheerleader from the 'SNL' skit. I'm terrible with Halloween, because I come up with these elaborate costumes and never follow through.

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I don't take karaoke seriously at all. I'm not the type of person who will go and belt out Whitney Houston.

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I don't think a solo album is me. I don't consider my voice to be that kind of a voice. Not that I don't love singing, but Broadway was my original dream. That's what I've always wanted to do.

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I fell in love with 19th-century Russian plays.

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It's so easy to flourish a moment with a cape.

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My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

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