Alice Ripley Quotes

Alice Ripley

Profession : Actor

Birth : December 14, 1963

Nothing is hanging on my walls.

Alice Ripley

I would say that Cynthia Nixon is somebody I admire, and Toni Collette as well. Those women - their work inspires me, whatever they do.

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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.

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

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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.

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As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.

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George Hearn taught me that you learn that there are roles that are Tony roles and roles that are not.

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

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Leisure time is when I'm not at the Booth Theater.

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

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I'm kind of a double middle child.

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If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.

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I take musical theater seriously.

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

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

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My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me.

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

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I play the guitar every day.

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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.

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I love D.C. I love working there.

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