Alice Ripley Quotes
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Now, I come from a long line of narcissists. And I also have no kids - by choice - but I understand not being a mother and the pain that comes from that.
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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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I wasn't a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire for me, and so that's still going, and I haven't given up on it.
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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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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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My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.
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I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
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Facebook and Twitter and Instagram are excellent ways to keep in touch with the audience and maintain your image an actor.
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I love every minute of my work.
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As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.
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I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.
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I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.
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The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for.
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I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.
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I would say that Cynthia Nixon is somebody I admire, and Toni Collette as well. Those women - their work inspires me, whatever they do.
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It's nice to be in a smaller room. I like the big arenas as well, but at my core, I'm a live performer, so it's nice to be able to feel the warmth of everybody in the room.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.
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It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.
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The selections on 'Daily Practice' are all what I consider standard rock songs that have been absolutely essential to keeping me alive.
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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.
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Sometimes you're the only one who thinks you have a good idea.
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At the end of 'Next to Normal,' you can see the light. 'There will be light.' That's the reason the show exists. Those are the last four words.
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I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.
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You've got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That's when it's beautiful.