Nothing has ever come easy for me. Patti LuPone More Quotes by Patti LuPone More Quotes From Patti LuPone I think Madonna is a wonderful performer. Patti LuPone performers wonderful thinking 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. Patti LuPone voice beach kids A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot. Patti LuPone middle rocks kind 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. Patti LuPone grateful cities new-york 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. Patti LuPone mahler rocks stories 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. Patti LuPone silhouettes careers thinking I just love chickens. Patti LuPone chickens 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. Patti LuPone rocks real thinking I wish I could have a recurring role on 'Modern Family'. I think 'Modern Family' is the best comedy on television. It's extremely well written, extremely well acted and directed. Patti LuPone modern-family wish thinking I just create, that's what I do. Patti LuPone What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do. Patti LuPone boston cities new-york 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. Patti LuPone emotional faces america The book 'A Reliable Wife' is a slice of American history. It takes a part of American history and tells a story about the purchase of a wife by a Wisconsin businessman. The research of that would have been really interesting. Patti LuPone wife book interesting A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work. Patti LuPone exhausting stink shows Madonna is a movie killer, she's dead behind the eyes. She cannot act her way out of a paper bag. Patti LuPone entertainment She should not be in film or on stage, she's a wonderful performer for what she does, but she's not an actress. Patti LuPone entertainment I don't know whether she ever found out about it, i did meet her after her opening night party, and the only thing that Madonna has ever said to me was, 'I'm taller than you.'. Patti LuPone entertainment 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. Patti LuPone message care responsibility love To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief. Patti LuPone just relief felt enough We're not show-business people. We have a life. Patti LuPone life people
