Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

'Next To Normal' is rock music. It's a rock opera. That, definitely, has a place in popular music.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

Leisure time is when I'm not at the Booth Theater.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

The musicals on Broadway have not necessarily been true musical theater. I'm speaking generally, of course: I saw 'Spring Awakening,' and I was completely inspired by that.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

Nothing is hanging on my walls.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

All day I wait for my job, which I do at night, and once I get there, I walk a tightrope, jump through hoops, and take breathtaking dives.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

My mother is always the most vulnerable person in any room, and so I definitely have that part of her inside me.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the street. I kind of was embarrassed by it for a long time. Then I decided, 'Hey, if everyone else can embrace their homeland and where they're from, I can do the same!'

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

The road's a tough life, but I said 'yes,' because as a kid growing up in Ohio, I never had a chance to see a Tony-winning actress in a role she won the Tony for.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

Sometimes, you find the play; sometimes, the play finds you.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

'Closure' is the word used for a loss that's not acknowledged - and the habit this causes, physically and mentally, for anybody who is participating in that.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

I grew up in Ohio. I was born in a suburb of Oakland, but I grew up in Ohio.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

I am always talking to students and telling them how you have to practice every day because you can't wait for someone to hire you. You need something you do for yourself, something that feeds your creative life.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

Any kind of grieving that is not allowed causes a break. In our culture, grieving in public is not encouraged, but in other cultures, it is done publicly. Some cultures have walls where people can cry. We don't have that. We have theatre where there's always the chance for you to face things within yourself.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

'Tommy' was my first Broadway show. Long Pause. I don't know how you can surpass the excitement or get more excited or feel more on top of the world than when you are sitting in a room singing The Who, and Pete Townshend is sitting there tapping his foot.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

As long as a tune has the power to move me, I'm a lifelong fan.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

Norm Lewis, who plays Jake in 'Side Show,' and I had a song together in 'Tommy,' and I understudied Mrs. Walker.

Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley

The audience fills me back up, definitely.