It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

I just refuse to date actors. I've done that, and I don't want to do that anymore. It's just the stress of traveling and being away from each other so much.

I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn't take one show off.

I feel like if I am physically and emotionally able to be at the theater, I will be there. I don't like not being there - I don't like playing hooky. I am just one of those people who feels really, really guilty if I am not there - maybe it's part of being Catholic.

In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

I can't be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn't want to be.