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All Quotes by author - Patti LuPone

" All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points in the silhouette. What I do is too dangerous. "

" Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we're all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience. "

" A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work. "

" A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. "

" I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean? "

" I don't listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway. "

" I just create, that's what I do. "

" I just love chickens. "

" 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 era of transistor radios at the beach. "

" 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 your life. "

" I love what I do, and I love the audience, and I love the fact that I get to do it, and I love, I love our craft very, very, much, and it's a noble craft. We have a responsibility to it, and to the audience, and to the playwright, and to the message. I won't ever care less. "

" 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 so not important to me. "

" In America, it stands out, because it's raw, it's big, it's emotional. My face is raw, big and emotional. It didn't work for the longest time. "

" 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 the most effect? What can I play to get people to laugh? "

" I think Madonna is a wonderful performer. "

" 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. "

" My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band. "

" My favorite composers are the ones that tell the story. I love Wagner. I love Mahler. Prokofiev. The programmatic music. I listen more to classic rock because I don't like the contemporary music very much. "

" New York seems to be thriving, which I'm grateful for. But I would hope that they would figure out how to negotiate the traffic and limit the pedicabs, because it seems to me that it's becoming a more chaotic city. "

" Nothing has ever come easy for me. "

" Smile at a stranger. See what happens. "

" The only thing we are as actors are messengers. That's all we are. Correct? We are delivering the playwright's intention through the concept of the director. And I come on stage; if I feel confident in the role, then I give it away. "

" The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television. "

" The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural. "

" To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief. "

" We're not show-business people. We have a life. "

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