Miss Saigon Quotes

#1. In the modern operas that 'Miss Saigon' and 'Les Miz' are, nobody breaks out into song from conventional book dialogue. Everything is sung from beginning to end, including the recitative.

Lea Salonga

#2. I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

Will Chase

#3. I was 17 when I auditioned for 'Miss Saigon.' I really grew up doing that show. I pretty much knew, almost a year into 'Miss Saigon,' that I was going to be a performer, that I was going to be singing and acting.

Lea Salonga

#4. I'm privileged to have had some success, but I've never forgotten what it was like to queue for a half-crown gallery seat for 'Oliver!' which is why I ensure that there are £20 day tickets for 'Miss Saigon' and that the balconies in my theatres are as comfortable as I can possibly make them.

Cameron Mackintosh

#5. 'Miss Saigon' taught me what it means to help carry a big show, and it had some of the most gorgeous songs wrote.

Will Chase

#6. Before the 'Fast & Furious' promo in Manila, I went on a vacation in the Philippines 10 years earlier. I loved it. My 'Miss Saigon' friends showed me around.

Luke Evans

#7. In a span of months she had present for birth and for death, the wondrous first breath and the horrible last. But wasn't it an honor to be there at the end of life as well as the beginning? To mark the extraordinariness of a lifetime, to bear witness to its completion?

Rae Meadows

#8. You put your hand on Corinne's back like this again and I'm breaking your fingers.

Sylvia Day

#9. At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.

R.C. Sproul

#10. We are going from reading our genetic code to the ability to write it. That gives us the hypothetical ability to do things never contemplated before.

Craig Venter

#11. Here's a tip though', he told me, leaning over and pressing a hand into my shoulder. 'If you want to improve your time, run faster.

John Boyne

#12. I couldn't bear it if anyone knew I had hardly any self-confidence at all.

Loretta Young

#13. I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

Margaret Thatcher

#14. I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.

Mandy Patinkin

#15. When you have a lot of opportunities, which I am blessed to have had in terms of my work, you get into the habit of not paying attention to certain specifics. And as we get busy, anything we do is the same thing.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#16. It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

Corazon Aquino

#17. He drank even as he rode, which looked difficult. I cannot say it slowed him down any, but it did make him silly. Why do people wish to be silly?

Charles Portis

#18. Slow motion is so visually cinematic; when you create that, you create it for your audience, you let them have the feeling of what it must be like to be there. And in a movie, you can't forget the audience.

Bill Paxton

#19. It was not feasible to lose time in making careful surveys or extensive preliminary studies of possible control methods; learn how to get rid of Anopheles gambiae by actually getting rid of Anopheles gambiae.

Fred Lowe Soper

#20. The very condition of Woman is so subject to Hazard, so complex, and so grievous, that to place her at one moment is but to displace her at the next.

Djuna Barnes