Alice Ripley Quotes
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I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?
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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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I cry at Kodak commercials.
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Making music has saved my life.
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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 had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.
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The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.
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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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My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me.
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My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.
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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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I'm kind of a double middle child.
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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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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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As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.
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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 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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I'm kind of a dork at being able to dress myself.
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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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I take musical theater seriously.
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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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With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.
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Nothing is hanging on my walls.