Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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.

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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.

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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.

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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.

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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.

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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.

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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.

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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.

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

I just love chickens.

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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.

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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?

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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.

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

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

Patti LuPone
Patti LuPone

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.