Patti LuPone Quotes
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A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.
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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…
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Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.
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The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.
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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…
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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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I played the tuba in high school. I wanted to be a member of the marching band. I thought, what can I play that has…
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I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.
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A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.
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I just create, that's what I do.
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I just love chickens.
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John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn't matter. There's no fear or censure.…
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Smile at a stranger. See what happens.
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The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural.
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My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.
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Nothing has ever come easy for me.
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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…
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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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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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I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that…
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