I'm like a prize fighter. When I'm not on stage, every action that I take has to be focused on my next… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
Facebook and Twitter and Instagram are excellent ways to keep in touch with the audience and maintain your image an actor. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business. — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so… — 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… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty… — 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
I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem… — Alice Ripley Copy Share Image
The musicals on Broadway have not necessarily been true musical theater. I'm speaking generally, of course: I saw 'Spring Awakening,' and I… — 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
