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. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
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. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in other cultures,… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
Writing is the place where I can do it all and get away with it. You can't do that in the theatre. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
There were eleven kids, and we all shared a bathroom. It was enough to drive us all insane. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
I wasn't a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image