-: I've always had the motto,
slow and steady wins the race.
Just keep going.
Just keep working on your craft.
When you're not doing a job, pick something that you
need to be better at to be better at your job,
and work on it.
Take that as an opportunity to work on your dancing,
work on your physical health.
And I'm not talking about a particular body type,
I'm talking about being healthy, having the lungs you need
to fill an enormous house.
Just by speaking or singing.
Work on your dancing skills.
Your flexibility.
I mean, just simple things.
Work on your diction.
Work on your accents.
Take some acting classes.
Take a stage combat class.
There's so many things that you can do when you're not doing
a show to make yourself better at your job.
And make yourself more viable.
The world is your classroom.
Everything that I experience
in the world, I sort of put it in my pocket thinking,
I can use this later.
I'm learning something by sitting at the bus stop
and watching people, you know.
You have to be a student of the world.
The fact that I was a singer and that I worked on opera,
I sing jazz, and I sing musical theater, and the fact that
I could sing all those different kinds of music,
helps me get more jobs.
So, the more skills you have in your pocket,
the more likely you are to actually land a job.
The fact that I can walk on my hands has gotten me more
jobs than I can say.
Which sounds ridiculous!
But it's like, Who can be upside down?
Pick Anne Michaels!
She can do it.
So, I think that's important.
Just keep learning, keep growing.