Alice Ripley Quotes
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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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I love New York City. I really do. I 'heart' New York.
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Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.
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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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My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.
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I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.
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Nothing is hanging on my walls.
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I'm kind of a double middle child.
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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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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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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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Sometimes you're the only one who thinks you have a good idea.
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I take musical theater seriously.
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There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me.'
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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'm kind of a dork at being able to dress myself.
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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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Chrissie Hynde's from Ohio, and so am I. If there's a Cleveland sound, that's what it is.
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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 play the guitar every day.
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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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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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The audience fills me back up, definitely.