Patti LuPone Quotes
I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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Everything is real on me.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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I went down to Venezuela and ended up renting a helicopter and flew with my sons to the tops of the tepuis, these freestanding jungle mesas, 'lost worlds' as it were. In fact, it's almost impossible to access them without one. So we were able to land and spend some time there. We were trapped for about six hours by clouds that came in.
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I've always looked at filmmaking as a lifestyle. There is no decision of when you go to work. It's a way of life: you're thinking about scripts; you see things and think, 'That could be interesting'... I don't think about my work as, 'Today I'll work on this, this and that.' It just comes to me.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Kids are naturally gifted at art from a very young age. The problem is when they get older and become self-conscious. The process should always be fun, though.
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If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.
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I just think political correctness is crap.
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You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.
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I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.
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If you can't be funny, be interesting.
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When I audition, I understand what it takes and the insecurities that come with it. If I do anything, I put actors at ease. I used to tell directors who weren't actors, the best thing they could do was take an acting class for a couple of months. Just to understand.
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You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'
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I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.
