Top 50 Alice Ripley Quotes

David Mamet gives me great heart. When I ask myself, ‘I don’t know if I can do this again,’ Mamet would say, ‘Oh yes, you can.’

I don’t really talk about ‘Next to Normal’ that much anymore.

I’m a strong follower of hydrotherapy.

Chrissie Hynde’s from Ohio, and so am I. If there’s a Cleveland sound, that’s what it is.

You’ve got to chop back the performance like a rose bush. That’s when it’s beautiful.

Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it’s inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.

You always kind of feel like you’re rolling the dice as an actor.

I’ve been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I’m a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters.

My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me.

‘Next To Normal’ is rock music. It’s a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.

I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can’t wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.

The audience fills me back up, definitely.

What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom. New underwear? I never discovered that until I got into college.

As long as a tune has the power to move me, I’m a lifelong fan.

My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.

I’m drawn to raw material and raw emotions.

I play the guitar every day.

Uzo Aduba over at ‘Godspell’ is doing an even more entertaining Donald Trump than Donald Trump’s Donald Trump.

I didn’t see any Broadway till I was in my late twenties.

Making music has saved my life.

All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.

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.

Oh my God, I love Max von Essen.

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.

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.

I’m like a prize fighter. When I’m not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next performance.

Norm Lewis, who plays Jake in ‘Side Show,’ and I had a song together in ‘Tommy,’ and I understudied Mrs. Walker.

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.

Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.

‘American Psycho’ reminds me of my track in ‘Tommy,’ my first Broadway show. It’s similar conceptually and has that rock n’ roll streak.

I was always a big fan of ‘Pippin’ and ‘Godspell,’ even before I heard ‘Meadowlark.’

I had to go off by myself to try and discover what my talent really was.

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.

I’ve always been inspired by Patti LuPone.

‘Next to Normal’ has challenged me as an actor because of how complex Diana is. And that’s got me hungry for another character like that in a non-singing role because it would be interesting to express that same intensity in a different way.

I love having a basement.

Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can’t do that in the theatre.

Tom Kitt aside – he’s in his own category with me, of course – Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.

As a teen, ‘Thunder Road’ was always in my head.

Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don’t understand what it feels like.

I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.

I was in the original cast of ‘Sunset Boulevard.’ I played Betty. But I wasn’t on the cast album.

‘Tommy’ was my first Broadway show. Long Pause. I don’t know how you can surpass the excitement or get more excited or feel more on top of the world than when you are sitting in a room singing The Who, and Pete Townshend is sitting there tapping his foot.

Sometimes you’re the only one who thinks you have a good idea.

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.

The really good stuff- the ‘Hamiltons’ – comes out after decades of writing and being committed.

When it comes to your creative life and what it’s going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.

I would love to play Mary in ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ or ‘Virginia Woolf’ or a comedy – just, like, a slapstick comedy.

When I did ‘Rocky Horror,’ I didn’t want to meet the audience afterward, because they’d been having a good time yelling names at me all night, and I didn’t really want to tell them that I didn’t have such a good time being yelled at all night.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.