Alice Ripley Quotes
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Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.
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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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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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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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Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.
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I was always a big fan of 'Pippin' and 'Godspell,' even before I heard 'Meadowlark.'
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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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Nothing is hanging on my walls.
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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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'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 take musical theater seriously.
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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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Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in other cultures, it is done publicly. Some cultures have walls where people can cry. We don't have that. We have theatre where there's always the chance for you to face things within yourself.
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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 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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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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Chrissie Hynde's from Ohio, and so am I. If there's a Cleveland sound, that's what it is.
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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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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 play the guitar every day.