Quotes by Elaine Paige - Page 1

I never enjoyed being famous.
Elaine Paige / Singer
Being Famous
Enjoyed
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My shoes are size 2 and a 1/2, the same size as my feet
Elaine Paige / Singer
Funny
Feet
Shoes
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My dad always told me that perseverance furthers. He was right.
Elaine Paige / Singer
Dad
My Dad
Perseverance
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Learn to take rejection, keep fit and work only with the best in your field.
Elaine Paige / Singer
Fields
Fit
Rejection
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I've never been very good at manipulating my career, but fortunately I haven't needed to.
Elaine Paige / Singer
Careers
Needed
Very Good
Fortunately
Manipulating
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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 / Singer
Drama
School
Taught
Begin
Never Drama School
Drama Never School
Drama School
Drama School Never
Intake
Required
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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 / Singer
Sight
Song
Years
Musicals
Primarily
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Maybe the higher echelons of my range aren't as easily accessible, but that's OK; you change the key.
Elaine Paige / Singer
Higher
Range
Accessible
Easily
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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 / Singer
Dream
Musical
Writing
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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 / Singer
Doe
Mean
Successful
Mean Because Just Because
Area
Just Because Mean Because
Necessarily
One Area
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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 / Singer
Home
Peace And Quiet
Quiet
Younger
Go Home
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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 / Singer
Firsts
Saws
Serious
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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 / Singer
Firsts
Musical
Special
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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 / Singer
Musical
Directing
Hal
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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 / Singer
Energy
Games
Musical
Musical Theater
Mentally
Requires
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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 / Singer
Dream
Mean
Theatre
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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 / Singer
Cold
Different
Muddle
Musical
Play
Altogether
Life Great Fear
Carrying
Catch
Life Fear Great
Different Thing
Singer
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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 / Singer
Applause
Broadway
Broadway Theatre
Community
Fantastic
Long
Ovation
Standing
Theatre
Welcome
Tremendous
Received
Wondering
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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 / Singer
Abba
Musical
Music Me Remember
Wild
Hoping
Tim
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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 / Singer
Voice
Waiting
Wings
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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 / Singer
Trust
Diagnosis
Disease
Motivated
Speed
Support
Trust Work Experience
Extremely
Improve
Personal Experience
Pleased
Raise
Thereby
Unit
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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 / Singer
Encouragement
Teacher
Drama
School
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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 / Singer
Littles
Noise
Radio
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