Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone
Patti Ann LuPoneis 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionStage Actress
Date of Birth21 April 1949
CityNorthport, NY
CountryUnited States of America
rocks stories mahler
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.
rocks kind middle
A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.
craft fact love noble responsibility
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.
felt tony
To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief.
We're not show-business people. We have a life.
best demand equally everybody expect hard high money pay people trained work
Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.
mean musical theatre
I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?
television way tough
The theater is a tough place. It's not cushioned the way it is in film and television.
hunting pigs dating
Sometimes love doesn't come to us. We have to go out hunting. It's like pigs looking for truffles. It's called dating.
italian important way
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.
stink shows exhausting
A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.
emotional america faces
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.
giving roles actors
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.
real thinking voice
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.