Top 27 Alan Menken Quotes
#1. The best parts about writing a show are [its] first, second and 10th anniversaries. Everything else is relative levels of hell.
Alan Menken
#2. I hate those movies, those books, where some guy gets to go off and have adventures and meanwhile the girl has to stay home and wait. I'm a feminist. I subscribe to Bust magazine, and I watch Buffy reruns. I don't believe in that kind of shit.
Kelly Link
#3. Hansel and Gretel had breadcrumbs, she had plastic spiders. Worst-case scenario, she could find her way back by following the trail of dead birds that had choked on them.
Jeff Strand
#5. Never underestimate the power of self-absorption, including your parents' self-absorption.
Rita Mae Brown
#6. Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
Margaret Mitchell
#7. I don't know how to speak to celebrities. Every time I talk to Alan Menken, I say something stupid and I have to apologize.
Kara Lindsay
#8. I will find my way
I can go the distance
I'll be there someday
If I can be strong
I know every mile will be worth my while
I would go most anywhere to feel like I belong
Alan Menken
#9. Throughout history, human exploitation of the earth has produced this progression: colonize-destroy-move on.
Garrett Hardin
#10. As a book author, it's your responsibility to cast a vision for your book about the length and appearance before you pitch the idea to a publisher.
W. Terry Whalin
#11. I've always juggled a lot of projects because at least half the projects you do get shelved. So you have to do a lot of things in order for things to move forward.
Alan Menken
#12. What makes a monster and what makes a man?
Alan Menken
#13. Would you not marry even for love?'
'Love does not seem to bring anyone much happiness as far as I have observed. So I think the lesson learned is never to love.'
'The lesson is to love wisely,' he replied.
Sharon Shinn
#14. Alan Menken, for example, is one of my heroes for all of the music he's written for Disney.
Dave Koz
#15. If you write enough musicals you pretty much have a sense of where they should go, what you'll need, and when; how to pull people on that journey.
Alan Menken
#16. Having a tradition is a great thing to work within, and maybe today [it] is the only way to really land musically dramatic work.
Alan Menken
#17. The most beautiful women I've ever observed are those that have exchanged a self-focused life for a Christ-focused one. They are confident, but not in themselves. Instead of self-confidence, they radiate with Christ-confidence.
Leslie Ludy
#18. I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.
Alan Menken
#19. Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
#20. I am a bit of a control freak. If I get married, my wife isn't going out. No way. She's staying at home. She's not going out to clubs without me. I've already decided the rules, whoever she is.
Jermain Defoe
#21. I am not that concerned that innovation in some large scale sense will suddenly and abruptly shift from one part of the world to another.
Craig Mundie
#22. Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like 'The Little Mermaid,' 'Aladdin' and 'Beauty And The Beast.' I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.
Mandy Moore
#23. The truth is, anything worth achieving will cost you something, and quick wins often are detrimental to our long-term success.
Mark A. Sephton
#24. A good fight scene is really a good love scene.
Gayle Forman
#25. I don't write songs for myself anymore. I only write songs on assignment. It's purely a business, but it is still so important to me emotionally.
Alan Menken
#26. Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#27. What brought me to Disney was the new regime, which is now the old regime, came over with Michael Eisner, Frank Wells, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and all these people really wanted to reinvigorate the animated musical, so they came to Howard Ashman and me. That was my entry into Disney.
Alan Menken
