Alice Ripley Quotes
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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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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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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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I love New York City. I really do. I 'heart' New York.
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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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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 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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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 love every minute of my work.
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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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I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.
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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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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 had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.
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You've got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That's when it's beautiful.
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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 I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.
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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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'American Psycho' reminds me of my track in 'Tommy,' my first Broadway show. It's similar conceptually and has that rock n' roll streak.
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I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.
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As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.
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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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Making music has saved my life.