Alice Ripley Quotes

Alice Ripley

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 14, 1963

I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.

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, 'Oh yes, you can.'

Alice Ripley

The audience fills me back up, definitely.

Alice Ripley

All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.

Alice Ripley

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

Alice Ripley

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

Alice Ripley

I cry at Kodak commercials.

Alice Ripley

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

Alice Ripley

I'm drawn to raw material and raw emotions.

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

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

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 the only thing that matters.

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 like Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me.'

Alice Ripley

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

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Making music has saved my life.

Alice Ripley

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

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

Alice Ripley

When I did 'Rocky Horror,' I didn't want to meet the audience afterward, because they'd been having a good time yelling names at me all night, and I didn't really want to tell them that I didn't have such a good time being yelled at all night.

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 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.

Alice Ripley

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

Alice Ripley