Top 36 Elaine Paige Quotes
#1. I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didn't speak too much with Patti, but she was lovely with me.
Elena Roger
#2. My shoes are size 2 and a 1/2, the same size as my feet
Elaine Paige
#3. My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.
Elaine Paige
#4. I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.
Elaine Paige
#5. A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.
Joseph Conrad
#6. Fraught, adj.
Does every "I love you" deserve an "I love you too"? Does every kiss deserve a kiss back? Does every night deserve to be spent on a lover?
If the answer to any of these is "No," what do we do?
David Levithan
#7. If what Locke is doing were larking about, corpses could get jobs as acrobats.
Scott Lynch
#8. I always would be happy to make a character even more unlikable, but you know, there's a limit and if you go there, you get into a very different kind of movie, man.
Paul Giamatti
#9. Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put all our energy and resources into continued fossil fuel extraction, we will have lost an opportunity to have invested in renewable energy.
David Suzuki
#10. Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes;
And galvanism has set some corpses grinning,
But has not answer'd like the apparatus
Of the Humane Society's beginning,
By which men are unsuffocated gratis:
What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.
Lord Byron
#11. If you're a serious actor, you wouldn't put yourself up for one of those shows in case you got bumped off the first week and all your colleagues saw it.
Elaine Paige
#12. You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.
Elaine Paige
#13. One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#14. I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.
Elaine Paige
#15. 'Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.
Elaine Paige
#16. I am a very frank person and that's how I hope to remain. What you see is what you get.
Fan Bingbing
#17. Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.
Elaine Paige
#18. Actors already striving in the theatre wouldn't dream of putting themselves on these shows; it means that only about 10% of the talent out there is being auditioned for parts.
Elaine Paige
#19. I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.
Elaine Paige
#20. Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words.
Monte Irvin
#21. Sometimes that
which we fear
strengthens our
spirit and gives
us a splash
of hope.
Harley King
#22. My first singing role was as Susanna in a school production in a shortened form of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro. I loved to sing and I was given lots of encouragement by a wonderful music teacher Mrs Ann Hill and by my parents who suggested I go to drama school.
Elaine Paige
#23. Oh, those golden-yellow eyes of the wolf! You can feel yourself being pulled in. I knew I had been accepted - and that I had spoken to another species.
Jean Craighead George
#24. I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.
Elaine Paige
#25. Come out my friend. Come out from the narrow lanes of darkness into the vivacious light of the day.
Abhijit Naskar
#26. One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.
Elaine Paige
#27. I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!
Elaine Paige
#28. Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren't as easily accessible, but that's OK; you change the key.
Elaine Paige
#29. But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It requires energy, mentally and physically, to do it.
Elaine Paige
#30. I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to help raise the awareness of the disease and hopefully thereby improve the speed of diagnosis.
Elaine Paige
#32. I did miss the music a bit - but only in the wings, when I was waiting to go on. It seemed dreadfully quiet, rather unnerving. But the wonderful thing was that one didn't have to be quite so obsessive about one's health, and one's voice.
Elaine Paige
#33. If you are in a play, and you catch a cold, you are able to muddle through. If you are carrying a musical, it's a different thing altogether. It's the great fear of any singer's life.
Elaine Paige
#34. In Britain, it's almost as if we're ashamed of having ambition and drive.
Cat Deeley
#35. I don't believe in anti-heroes. Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.
Joel McCrea
#36. Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.
Elaine Paige
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