Elaine Paige Quotes

• Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.

  Elaine Paige

  Rejection, Fields, Fit

  "Portrait of the Artist: Elaine Paige, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2007.

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• Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.

  Elaine Paige

  Mean, Successful, Doe

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• My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.

  Elaine Paige

  Perseverance, Dad, My Dad

  "Portrait of the Artist: Elaine Paige, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2007.

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• 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

  Play, Musical, Different

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• Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.

  Elaine Paige

  Radio, Littles, Noise

  "Show Girl". www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2000.

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• 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

  Broadway Theatre, Long, Community

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• 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

  Dream, Mean, Theatre

  "Portrait of the Artist: Elaine Paige, Actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2007.

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• "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

  Musical, Special, Firsts

  "Elaine Paige's Musical Life, Lived On Stage". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 9, 2011.

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• One was never taught how to begin at drama school. But all it required was one intake of breath.

  Elaine Paige

  Drama, School, Taught

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• You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.

  Elaine Paige

  Dream, Writing, Musical

  "SPECIAL PREVIEW: InDepth InterView - Elaine Paige". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. June 13, 2010.

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• 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

  Games, Musical, Energy

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• I never enjoyed being famous.

  Elaine Paige

  Enjoyed, Being Famous

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• I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.

  Elaine Paige

  Careers, Very Good, Needed

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• 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

  Wings, Voice, Waiting

  "Show Girl". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2000.

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• 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

  Saws, Firsts, Serious

  "The Turning of the Paige". The Times, June 04, 2007.

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• 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

  Teacher, Encouragement, Drama

  "Angie Davidson Interviews Elaine Paige" by Angie Davidson, 2005.

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• I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

  Elaine Paige

  Song, Sight, Years

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• 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

  Trust, Support, Disease

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• 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

  Home, Quiet, Peace And Quiet

  "Elaine Paige's Musical Life, Lived On Stage". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. July 09, 2011.

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• My shoes are size 2 and a 1/2, the same size as my feet

  Elaine Paige

  Funny, Shoes, Feet

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