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Top 20 Lea Salonga Quotes (2025 Update)

Lea Salonga Quote: “Don’t expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you’ll get one for doing it exceptionally well.”

1. “Don’t expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you’ll get one for doing it exceptionally well.”

— Lea Salonga

Lea Salonga Quote: “I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.”

2. “I want every Filipino woman empowered with information regarding all options available to her regarding family planning.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.”

3. “My singing technique is really strong and I have to thank my teachers for really instilling a sense of discipline about how to sing properly and how to maintain your voice in a run.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “I was 17 when I auditioned for ‘Miss Saigon.’ I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into ‘Miss Saigon,’ that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.”

4. “I was 17 when I auditioned for ‘Miss Saigon.’ I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into ‘Miss Saigon,’ that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.”

— Lea Salonga

Lea Salonga Quote: “It’s in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?”

5. “It’s in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that’s all I can wish for – the next role, the next opportunity.”

6. “There are a lot of actors who wish there was a next play, a next musical. As an actor, I guess that’s all I can wish for – the next role, the next opportunity.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “I think I will always be performing; I don’t think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.”

7. “I think I will always be performing; I don’t think I can take that away. Because I really just enjoy it. I like getting up to sing; I like the challenge of learning new material and singing it in front of an audience.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “I don’t think I would’ve been performing this long if I didn’t love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It’s not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional.”

8. “I don’t think I would’ve been performing this long if I didn’t love it sincerely to the degree that I do. It’s not enough to like it. Dilettantes like things. Professionals love things and I consider myself a professional.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “The nice thing about doing a pop opera is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of “Why is this person bursting out into song?” because the whole thing is sung.”

9. “The nice thing about doing a pop opera is that, because the convention is set from the beginning that this is an opera and everything is sung, there is never that feeling of “Why is this person bursting out into song?” because the whole thing is sung.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “I can’t be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn’t want to be.”

10. “I can’t be an ingenue forever, and I wouldn’t want to be.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Lea Salonga

Lea Salonga Quote: “The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe – in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps – but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.”

12. “The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe – in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps – but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— Lea Salonga

Lea Salonga Quote: “All the Disney Princess films are iconic and beautiful, so to have been a part of all that was really a wonderful part of my life. Its all fabulous, too, that I have a daughter that appreciates the whole Princess thing.”

15. “All the Disney Princess films are iconic and beautiful, so to have been a part of all that was really a wonderful part of my life. Its all fabulous, too, that I have a daughter that appreciates the whole Princess thing.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in ‘Cinderella’ and a multitude of them in ‘Cats,’ I’ve wanted the opportunity to actually perform ‘down under.’”

16. “I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in ‘Cinderella’ and a multitude of them in ‘Cats,’ I’ve wanted the opportunity to actually perform ‘down under.’”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “I pride myself in the fact that in the six months tour of Cinderella, I didn’t take one show off.”

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

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Lea Salonga Quote: “I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.”

18. “I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “I’d love to do just straight theatre. I’d love to do film and television, too.”

19. “I’d love to do just straight theatre. I’d love to do film and television, too.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.”

20. “I think that if an audience is truly appreciative of a performance, they will show it. Sometimes though, there are little differences, and there are audiences that are very reserved even though they are enjoying the show.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.”

21. “The thing about Sondheim is that it does get very cerebral. You do need a faculty with words and a love for the lyrics to not just pull it off, but to have an appreciation for it.”

— Lea Salonga

Lea Salonga Quote: “I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it’s not up to the actor, it’s up to the producer. It’s up to the powers that be.”

22. “I would love to do some straight drama. A lot of times it’s not up to the actor, it’s up to the producer. It’s up to the powers that be.”

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Lea Salonga Quote: “I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, its just another normal.”

23. “I have a half-brother who is very, very, very gay, many cousins, best friends who are all members of the LGBT community, and for me to not say anything would be hypocritical. There is a lot of prejudice. People think it is abnormal. No, its just another normal.”

— Lea Salonga

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