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I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.
- Rachel Tucker
#Fun
#Have Fun
#Myself
#Never
#Seriously
If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't think about it; you have to talk yourself then into, 'Listen, this is it. This is the gig. Broadway or no Broadway, you've got to do your job.'
- Rachel Tucker
#About
#Job
#Never
#Talk
#Yourself
I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'
- Rachel Tucker
#Anything
#Dream
#Reality
#Said
#Show
Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
- Rachel Tucker
#Colors
#Favorite
#Green
I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.
- Rachel Tucker
#Been
#Cartoons
#Home
#Musicals
#Up
I can be very ordinary looking.
- Rachel Tucker
#I Can
#Looking
#Ordinary
#Very
I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
- Rachel Tucker
#Being
#Myself
#Pride
#Want
#Your
We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame May McFettridge got me up on-stage.
- Rachel Tucker
#House
#Me
#Opera
#Up
#Year
All you would hear every night on the news was that somebody had been shot dead in a certain part of Belfast. We lived opposite a judge, and there were always soldiers crouched down in our garden. We'd sit and talk to them, and I even used to sing to them!
- Rachel Tucker
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#News
#Night
#Sit
#Talk
I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.
- Rachel Tucker
#Believe
#Coming
#Dad
#Me
#Singing
Sting is a father figure to us all.
- Rachel Tucker
#Father Figure
#Father
#Figure
#Sting
#Us
When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
- Rachel Tucker
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#Information
#Life
#Lost
#Research
It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And in 'I'd Do Anything,' I've had so much support from folks back home, no matter what side they're on.
- Rachel Tucker
#Back
#Home
#Matter
#See
#Support
My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
- Rachel Tucker
#Home
#Me
#Own
#See
#Wings
When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
- Rachel Tucker
#Black And White
#Black
#Dad
#He
#White
I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book!
- Rachel Tucker
#I Am
#Me
#Pleasure
#Start
#Thankful
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