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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?

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

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

We're not show-business people. We have a life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patti LuPone

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

Patti LuPone

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

Patti LuPone

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.

Patti LuPone

My favorite band was The Band, and nobody compares in my mind with The Band.

Patti LuPone

I just create, that's what I do.

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

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

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

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.

Patti LuPone

What's the difference in opening from scratch in Philly or opening from scratch in New York? The old out-of-town tryout circuit - taking the show pre-Broadway to cities like Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Washington - has sort of been replaced with the amount of workshops we do.

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

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

I just love chickens.

Patti LuPone

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

Patti LuPone