Frases de Elaine Paige

Elaine Paige, OBE , nome artístico de Elaine Mary Bickerstaff, é uma cantora, dançarina e atriz britânica.

Atuou em diversos espetáculos musicais, entre eles Cats, de Andrew Lloyd Webber, baseado em um livro infantil de T.S. Eliot. O espetáculo ficou 21 anos em cartaz em Londres e Elaine estreou no papel da felina "Grizabella" no dia 11 de maio de 1981.

Foi agraciada com a Ordem do Império Britânico em 1995.

Em 2009, Susan Boyle, durante sua primeira audição no programa de calouros britânico Britain's Got Talent, citou Elaine Paige como seu ícone na música.

Em 2014, Paige celebrou seus 50 anos no show business. Paige anunciou em seu site oficial uma turnê de "Farewell" e um novo álbum de carreiraThe Ultimate Collection para comemorar esse marco em sua carreira. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. Março 1948
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Elaine Paige: Frases em inglês

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

As quoted in "Portrait of the artist: Elaine Paige, actor" by Laura Barnett in The Guardian (22 May 2007)

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

As quoted in "Portrait of the artist: Elaine Paige, actor" by Laura Barnett in The Guardian (22 May 2007)

“I never for a moment considered not doing the show. When I did the show I became very emotional. Some of the lyrics suddenly took on an entirely different meaning. Words like, 'as if we never said goodbye' became more real.”

Regarding Paige's battle with cancer; as quoted in "Elaine's close curtain call" by Rebecca Hardy in The Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/womenfamily.html?in_article_id=301138&in_page_id=1799 (8 May 2004)

“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.”

Regarding Any Dream Will Do; as quoted in "The turning of the Paige" by Brian Logan in The Times http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article1877776.ece (4 June 2007)

“It did something to me. I thought it was the most glorious melody.”

Regarding the song "Memory"; as quoted in "Cover Story; Broadway's 'Cats': Restaged for Eternity (And We Thought They Were Kidding!)" by Peter Marks in The New York Times http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A05EEDB133FF932A35752C1A96E958260 (1 November 1998)

“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.”

Regarding Any Dream Will Do; as quoted in "Portrait of the artist: Elaine Paige, actor" by Laura Barnett in The Guardian http://arts.guardian.co.uk/theatre/drama/story/0,,2085160,00.html (22 May 2007)

“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.
As quoted in "Angie Davidson Interviews Elaine Paige" by Angie Davidson in lupus.org.uk http://www.lupus.org.uk/article.php?i=159 (2005)