Patti LuPone Quotes

Most people don't think of Los Angeles as a theatre town, and that you have to go to New York to be in theatre, and it's really not true.

I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York.

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

There's something so wonderful about being an actor in New York.

I wanna do Broadway one day in New York. That would be an ultimate dream of mine.

I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.

I did my New York debut at 21. It was 'On the Town' at the George Gershwin Theatre. New York is my artistic home.

You know you're an actor in New York when you're on 'SVU.'

I don't really have any plans in terms of what I want to do - movies, television, theater - but I'd love to do a play in New York.

I have done one or two plays in New York briefly.

During the winter of 2013, we were running 'Comet' up in midtown - as opposed to downtown - and across the street in the Standard, and that was, like, our third time going at it, from Ars Nova to downtown to near Broadway. We weren't on Broadway. We were near Broadway, as we said.

Broadway was weird.

I live in L.A. so I don't get to see much theatre anymore. They have a lot of touring shows but it's not like New York - I lived in New York for 15 years and you can walk out on the street and there's something to see.

I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

One thing I really want to do is - I spent ten years in New York doing theater before I moved to L.A. to do TV and film. I'd really like to go to back New York and do some theater.

I spent a lot of time in the trenches in New York doing a lot of off-off-off Broadway theater.

Doing a play in New York is ticking off a major, major bucket list thing for me.

When I was in New York for 'White's Lies,' I saw 'American Idiot' and 'Hair.' I loved both of those.

I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.

New York City is a big city but a small city when it comes to theater.

I started out producing theatre in New York.

I came to New York to study theater and stayed and was doing exactly what I wanted to do. It's because of that work that some doors eventually opened for me.

I've done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows that except the people in New York.

Jeff Wachtel, who was the main reason our show came back, and also got picked up to begin with, is from the New York theater.