Alice Ripley Quotes
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Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.
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'Tommy' was my first Broadway show. Long Pause. I don't know how you can surpass the excitement or get more excited or feel more on top of the world than when you are sitting in a room singing The Who, and Pete Townshend is sitting there tapping his foot.
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Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre.
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Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.
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Norm Lewis, who plays Jake in 'Side Show,' and I had a song together in 'Tommy,' and I understudied Mrs. Walker.
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It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.
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As long as a tune has the power to move me, I'm a lifelong fan.
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I've always been inspired by Patti LuPone.
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Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.
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I didn't see any Broadway till I was in my late twenties.
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I'm drawn to raw material and raw emotions.
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Springsteen's 'Thunder Road' and Carole King's 'It's Too Late' are examples of why I am a singer/songwriter. I practice these songs every day. The melodies are timeless in the rock world, the lyrics are words that I need to say, and they need to be heard again.
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The musicals on Broadway have not necessarily been true musical theater. I'm speaking generally, of course: I saw 'Spring Awakening,' and I was completely inspired by that.
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Sometimes a job comes to you, and you didn't ask for it. Your work in the past hires you, and that's nice.
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When everything kind of hit the fan, my dad married Jo Anne, and suddenly there were five kids from the Ripleys and five kids from the Doughertys. Then my dad and Joanne had a baby. I usually have to make a diagram.
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You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.
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When I did 'Rocky Horror,' I didn't want to meet the audience afterward, because they'd been having a good time yelling names at me all night, and I didn't really want to tell them that I didn't have such a good time being yelled at all night.
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I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home to be Cleveland.
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I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education.
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When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.
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If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.
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A likable character isn't one who does nothing wrong.
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I don't really talk about 'Next to Normal' that much anymore.
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When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn't apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that's what you have to do to be an interesting actor.