Alice Ripley

Making music has saved my life.

— Alice Ripley

With a lot of contemporary musicals, the songs are like a calling card: the action stops for them.

— Alice Ripley

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

— Alice Ripley

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

— Alice Ripley

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

— Alice Ripley

Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.

— Alice Ripley

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

— Alice Ripley

A likable character isn't one who does nothing wrong.

— Alice Ripley

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

— Alice Ripley

All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump…

— Alice Ripley

My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you…

— Alice Ripley

Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite…

— Alice Ripley

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

— Alice Ripley

I've been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I'm a believer in the idea that your thought is…

— Alice Ripley

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

What made me so brave? Maybe it was being the middle kid of 11, and we all had to share one bathroom.…

— Alice Ripley

I did grow up in a small town. I grew up in a lot of different places. But I consider my home…

— Alice Ripley

I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields…

— Alice Ripley

When everything kind of hit the fan, my dad married Jo Anne, and suddenly there were five kids from the Ripleys and…

— Alice Ripley

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

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

— Alice Ripley

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

— Alice Ripley

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

— Alice Ripley

I have a soft spot for vintage movie houses covered in goo; what can I say?

— Alice Ripley

I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.

— Alice Ripley

I love New York City. I really do. I 'heart' New York.

— Alice Ripley

There were eleven kids, and we all shared a bathroom. It was enough to drive us all insane.

— Alice Ripley

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

— Alice Ripley

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

— Alice Ripley

It's heartbreaking to see theater people be forced to accept the business side of show business.

— Alice Ripley

George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.

— Alice Ripley

When the decades pass and you're working in this business, the audiences get older with you. That's the nice part about it.…

— Alice Ripley

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

— Alice Ripley

David Mamet gives me great heart. When I ask myself, 'I don't know if I can do this again,' Mamet would say,…

— Alice Ripley

I wasn't a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked…

— Alice Ripley

When 'Next to Normal' won the Pulitzer, that was the moment I felt the show was being defined. There's a certain confidence…

— Alice Ripley

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

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

— Alice Ripley

The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance…

— Alice Ripley

I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a…

— Alice Ripley