Patti LuPone Quotes

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

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

To transform the world women need to demand their place - which is not equal, but superior.

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

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

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

I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that are not trained stage actors. Don't they know, Broadway ain't for sissies? It is a tough gig. You are responsible, physically, mentally, emotionally, for eight shows a week, at the top of your game. It's not easy.

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 think the way I can sing the way I sing is because of the way I talk to my animals. I hit some really high notes.

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?

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.

I just create, that's what I do.

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.

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

I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.

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.

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'm sure there are actors out there who work with other actors on a consistent basis - I am not one of them.

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

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.

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?

It's not easy being an actor, and having said that, everybody's an actor. Do you know what I mean? Paris Hilton's an actor, which is kind of scary. But if you want to honor your craft and yourself, strive for the nobler instincts.

I just love chickens.

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.