Patti LuPone Quotes

• We’re not show-business people. We have a life.

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  Topics in Business, Life

• To be nominated was enough, but when I won I the Tony I just felt relief.

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  Tags in Relief

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

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  Tags in Natural

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

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  Tags in Theater

• Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

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• 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.

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  Tags in Important

• I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

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  Tags in Performer

• 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?

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  Tags in Play, Game

• 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.

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  Topics in Life

  Tags in Time

• I just love chickens.

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  Topics in Love

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

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  Tags in Think, Audience

• A well-rounded performer will listen to all kinds of music. I like classical, Middle Eastern, and rock a lot.

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  Tags in Music, Listen

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

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Show

• I just create, that’s what I do.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Create

Patti LuPone (14)

Birth:	21st April, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress, Singer

About

Patti Ann LuPone 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. LuPone began her professional career with the The Acting Company in 1972 and made her Broadway debut in Three Sisters in 1973. She received the first of six Tony Award nominations for the 1975 musical The Robber Bridegroom. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Eva Perón in the 1979 original Broadway production of Evita.

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• 1958 - Rickson Gracie
• 1971 - Michael Strahan
• 1937 - Marlo Thomas
• 1952 - Lorna Luft
• 1963 - Nicollette Sheridan

Deaths

• 1996 - Mohammad Abdus Salam
• 1945 - Robert Benchley
• 1969 - Norman Lindsay
• 2000 - Sir Cyril Astley Clarke
• 1959 - Max Baer