Patti LuPone Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Patti LuPone Quotes. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!

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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.
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2
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.
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I don’t listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.
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4
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.
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5
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.
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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.
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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.
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To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief.
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9
I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.
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10
Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.
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11
We’re not show-business people. We have a life.
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12
I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.
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13
A show is exhausting when it stinks. It’s exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.
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14
I’d love to do situation comedy – it’s the best job in show business.
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15
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.
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I just love chickens.
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17
A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.
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18
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.
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Nothing has ever come easy for me.
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20
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.
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21
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.
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22
I am in musical theatre, but it isn’t necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?
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23
I just create, that’s what I do.
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24
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.
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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.
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