57 Quotes by Patti LuPone

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.

John Doyle just knows how to feed actors, and what comes out of us, good, bad, right, wrong, doesn’t matter. There’s no fear or censure. He opens up the creative goo and all of the actor vessel stuff. He knows how to do it. It’s just incredible.

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

Sometimes love doesn’t come to us. We have to go out hunting. It’s like pigs looking for truffles. It’s called dating.

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 don’t listen to the contemporary pop artists. They all sound alike, anyway.

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.

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.

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