American - Actor | December 14, 1963 -
It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.
Alice Ripley
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Part of the frustration of being bipolar is people don't understand what it feels like.
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I was in the original cast of 'Sunset Boulevard.' I played Betty. But I wasn't on the cast album.
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My Mickey Mouse ears were given to me by a dear friend. They remind me of how I need to be silly.
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I've been committed to personal growth since I was a teenager, and I'm a believer in the idea that your thought is the only thing that matters.
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When it comes to your creative life and what it's going to take, you will do a disservice to everybody if you just dabble.
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As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.
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I don't really talk about 'Next to Normal' that much anymore.
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I wasn't a musical-theater kid. We went to plays at school and took field trips to see Shakespeare. And that really sparked that fire for me, and so that's still going, and I haven't given up on it.
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'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.
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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.
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When 'Next to Normal' won the Pulitzer, that was the moment I felt the show was being defined. There's a certain confidence that comes with being selected.
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