Alice Ripley Quotes
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For me, in the audition, the song that you choose should make you cry. It doesn't matter why: it could be because you're happy, but it gives you that feeling that you're overflowing.
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Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.
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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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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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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 would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.
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As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.
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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
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Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.
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It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.
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I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught me to hear and honor the writer's voice in my soul.
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Don't get me wrong: I love having my own song and being the center of attention, but I also love being part of the group and making the show work in a more anonymous way.
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Making music has saved my life.
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My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you help me make this real?' There's nothing like starting from scratch.
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I'm kind of a double middle child.
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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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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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I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the street. I kind of was embarrassed by it for a long time. Then I decided, 'Hey, if everyone else can embrace their homeland and where they're from, I can do the same!'
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I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?
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Uzo Aduba over at 'Godspell' is doing an even more entertaining Donald Trump than Donald Trump's Donald Trump.
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I just think Brian d'Arcy James is a dream come true. I've known of him ever since I saw him in 'Titanic,' and I fell crazy in love with him at that moment.
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When 'Next to Normal' won the Pulitzer, that was the moment I felt the show was being defined. There's a certain confidence that comes with being selected.
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I take musical theater seriously.
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Sometimes you're the only one who thinks you have a good idea.