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. ”

I'm kind of a double middle child. ”

Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness. ”

When I did 'Rocky Horror,' I didn't want to meet the audience afterward, because they'd been having a good time yelling names at me all night, and I didn't really want to tell them that I didn't have such a good time being yelled at all night. ”

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

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

I don't honestly have the time or energy to support anybody else's cause but my own, which is self-expression. So I guess, if I had a cause, it would be education. ”

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

I've always looked to that play, 'Virginia Woolf,' for a cue - as far as any cue I might need as an actor for inspiration or as a writer. ”

I would say that Cynthia Nixon is somebody I admire, and Toni Collette as well. Those women - their work inspires me, whatever they do. ”