Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Alice Ripley - Page 2

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

'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.

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

I sometimes write songs on the piano, even though I don't actually play the piano. I always hire someone to play for me whenever I decide to sing a song I have written on the piano. My song 'Rosa' is one.

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

Knowing there is a capable back-up willing to give it a try always makes you feel better.

I take musical theater seriously.

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

As long as a tune has the power to move me, I'm a lifelong fan.

I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught me to hear and honor the writer's voice in my soul.

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.

Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in other cultures, it is done publicly. Some cultures have walls where people can cry. We don't have that. We have theatre where there's always the chance for you to face things within yourself.

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

I have learned that music comes in all shapes and sizes.

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

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

At the end of 'Next to Normal,' you can see the light. 'There will be light.' That's the reason the show exists. Those are the last four words.

The selections on 'Daily Practice' are all what I consider standard rock songs that have been absolutely essential to keeping me alive.

When you're 20 and you're in acting school and your teachers tell you that 95 percent of actors are unemployed for twenty years, you think it doesn't apply to you. But it does take twenty years to become real, because that's what you have to do to be an interesting actor.

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

I'm kind of a dork at being able to dress myself.

I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the street. I kind of was embarrassed by it for a long time. Then I decided, 'Hey, if everyone else can embrace their homeland and where they're from, I can do the same!'

When you're an actor, you do get involved with your characters - your emotional life is tied up with theirs, and so is your physical life.

The musicals on Broadway have not necessarily been true musical theater. I'm speaking generally, of course: I saw 'Spring Awakening,' and I was completely inspired by that.

Parents are destined to sin against their kids; it's inevitable. As is narcissism and the human condition. Everyone has their ego and their ambitions. Life happens in between.

I love having a basement.

Sometimes you're the only one who thinks you have a good idea.

The audience fills me back up, definitely.

I cry at Kodak commercials.

The really good stuff- the 'Hamiltons' - comes out after decades of writing and being committed.

Springsteen's 'Thunder Road' and Carole King's 'It's Too Late' are examples of why I am a singer/songwriter. I practice these songs every day. The melodies are timeless in the rock world, the lyrics are words that I need to say, and they need to be heard again.

Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.

There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me.'

I just think Brian d'Arcy James is a dream come true. I've known of him ever since I saw him in 'Titanic,' and I fell crazy in love with him at that moment.

For me, in the audition, the song that you choose should make you cry. It doesn't matter why: it could be because you're happy, but it gives you that feeling that you're overflowing.

Making music has saved my life.

I've always been inspired by Patti LuPone.

Sometimes a job comes to you, and you didn't ask for it. Your work in the past hires you, and that's nice.

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.

My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.