Top 25 Patti LuPone Quotes

I wish I could have a recurring role on ‘Modern Family’. I think ‘Modern Family’ is the best comedy on television. It’s extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It’s exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.

To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief.

I’d love to do situation comedy – it’s the best job in show business.

A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

I think that Stevie Nicks is one of the greats. Steve Nicks and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin have the real rock voices, to me.

I don’t listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

We’re not show-business people. We have a life.

It’s not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody’s an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton’s an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.

The theater is a tough place. It’s not cushioned the way it is in film and television.

Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.

I just create, that’s what I do.

I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh?

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn’t necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and I love, I love our craft very, very, much, and it’s a noble craft. We have a responsibility to it, and to the audience, and to the playwright, and to the message. I won’t ever care less.

All my career, I’ve said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous.

My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don’t like the contemporary music very much.

In America, it stands out, because it’s raw, it’s big, it’s emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn’t work for the longest time.