Patti LuPone Quotes

The book ‘A Reliable Wife’ is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story about the purchase of a wife by a Wisconsin businessman. The research of that would have been really interesting.

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

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.

What’s the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit – taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington – has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.

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.

The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That’s all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright’s intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away.

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

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

Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.

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

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

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

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

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.

I just love chickens.

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

New York seems to be thriving, which I’m grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it’s becoming a more chaotic city.

Nothing has ever come easy for me.

I’ll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that are not trained stage actors. Don’t they know, Broadway ain’t for sissies? It is a tough gig. You are responsible, physically, mentally, emotionally, for eight shows a week, at the top of your game. It’s not easy.

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.

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 just create, that’s what I do.

I’m totally Italian, but I’m not a diva. If you could see the way I’m dressed in daily life, that’s not a diva. Appearances are so not important to me.

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.