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Patti LuPone Biography

Patti Ann LuPone (born April 21, 1949) is an American actress and singer, best known for her work in stage musicals. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner and a two-time Tony Award winner. She is also a 2006 American Theater Hall of Fame inductee.

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

Film, Film And Television, Television, Theater, Tough, Way

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

Diva, Mean, Natural, Supernatural, Word

I'd love to do situation comedy - it's the best job in show business.

Jobs, Best Job, Comedy, Love, Show

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

Madonna, Performer, Performers, Think, Thinking, Wonderful

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.

Delivering, Director, Directors, Giving, Roles, Thing

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.

Beach, Kids, Voice, Transistor, Radios

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.

Appearances, Important, Italian, See, Way

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.

Actors, Career, Careers, Points, Silhouette, Thinking

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.

Animal, Animals, High, Notes, Think, Thinking

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

Know, Listen, Mean, Musical, Theatre, Time

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.

Eight, Games, Gig, Know, Think, Thinking

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

Hunting, Pigs, Dating, Like

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.

Listen, Mahler, Prokofiev, Rocks, Stories, Tell

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.

New York, Grateful, Cities, Negotiate, Chaotic, Becoming

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.

Real, Rock, Rocks, Slick, Stevie, Thinking

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

Alike, Artist, Contemporary, Listen, Pops, Sound

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.

David, Doors, Feet, Life, Long

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

Equal, Superior, Transform, Women, World

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

Featured, Know, Knows, Leading, Mean, Part

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

Ended, Misfits, Stage, Theater, Thinking

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