38 Quotes by Elaine Paige

I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust’s work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.

But you know, I’m not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person’s game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.

Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you’re going to be successful in another.

If you’re a serious actor, you wouldn’t put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.

I don’t listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.

If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it’s a different thing altogether. It’s the great fear of any singer’s life.

I’ve never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven’t needed to.

Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn’t dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.

You couldn’t even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.