Alice Ripley

“I'm drawn to raw material and raw emotions.”

“My favorite thing as a performing artist is to get a pile of raw material from a writer who says, 'Will you help me make this real?' There's nothing like starting from scratch.”

“I've always been drawn to raw material.”

“I sometimes write songs on the piano, even though I don't actually play the piano. I always hire someone to play for me whenever I decide to sing a song I have written on the piano. My song...”

“I would love to play Mary in 'Long Day's Journey Into Night' or 'Virginia Woolf' or a comedy - just, like, a slapstick comedy.”

“Tom Kitt aside - he's in his own category with me, of course - Stephen Sondheim is one of my all-time favorite composers.”

“I think I enjoy Sondheim so much because of the lyrics. The lyrics, the cornucopia of options.”

“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.”

“If there were a song from 'West Side Story' that I would do, it would be 'Something's Coming,' but in a sense that put it in the right key for me and then do that one.”