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

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

I just create, that's what I do.
Patti LuPone

I just love chickens.
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

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

I think Madonna is a wonderful performer.
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

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.
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

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

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