Top 100 Musical Theater Quotes
#1. I would love to have a varied career, like Hugh Jackman. He started in musical theater, then established himself in film, but he still does a lot of stage work. And he does it all beautifully.
Samantha Barks
#2. I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.
Lara Pulver
#3. If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.
Carlisle Floyd
#4. I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.
Taran Killam
#5. I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.
Amy Adams
#6. The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that was musical theater, as I got older I became more interested in acting as a separate entity and music as a separate entity, like songwriting and production and recording and playing music.
Guy Pearce
#7. People say, 'What are your hobbies?' I say, 'I've been doing shows ever since I was a kid.' When I left college, all I wanted to be was a musical theater chick. I auditioned tons. It just didn't pan out.
Stephanie Courtney
#9. I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.
Jamie Blackley
#10. I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did.
Gretchen Mol
#11. I love musical theater so much. When done right, I think comedy songs can be the most efficient form of joke delivery. Songs can be the most efficient and the best forms of conveying emotion. Music is universal. It's worldwide.
Rachel Bloom
#12. I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.
B. D. Wong
#13. From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with my life, but every time I was away from acting, I just felt very incomplete and a little stir crazy.
Alexander Koch
#14. To survive in a profession like this, you have to have absolute discipline and commitment, and I did not quite have it for musical theater.
Richard C. Armitage
#15. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday. I miss singing a lot. I listen to Broadway show tunes in my car and sing along to them.
Bridget Regan
#16. I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'
David Hasselhoff
#17. At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.
Neil Tennant
#18. What's missing in the musical theater is producers willing to nurture new work, raise the money and put it on.
Harold Prince
#19. When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.
Tamara Tunie
#20. The truth is I love musical theater and always have.
Idina Menzel
#21. I double majored in English education and theater with a musical theater minor. Teaching is the only thing that makes me as happy as performing.
Rob McClure
#22. I loved 'White Christmas' for the music aspect. I was into musical theater.
Lana Parrilla
#23. Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
Alex Flinn
#24. Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
Betty Buckley
#25. I'm a comedian, and I have my share of anxiety and depression; so do most of my friends. My humor tends to lie in the juxtaposition of extreme lightness - I'm a huge musical-theater fan - and extreme darkness. And so I really like playing with those because that's how I feel.
Rachel Bloom
#26. I was probably singing before I could talk. Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do dinner theater and live a simple life.
Bethany Joy Lenz
#27. That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.
Debra Messing
#28. I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.
Jerry Herman
#29. I've sung my whole life. I did a lot of musical theater growing up, I sing in the shower, sing in the car, sing everywhere really, on set at Chuck, all the time. I like it, and I've always felt like I've had a knack for it, or a talent for it, on some level, I don't know.
Zachary Levi
#30. In musical theater, if you have a song, it has to advance the plot. If you have a song in a musical and it does not advance the plot, it gets dropped.
Eli Roth
#31. I wanted to be an actor because I wanted to be onstage. I wanted to do musical theater, and from that I realized I was interested in plays. I never imagined myself on television. I was so lucky to be onstage my whole life.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#32. I came from a really musical family. I studied classical piano because my grandparents were piano teachers, but started doing musical theater at age nine in Fresno, California, and went to a performing arts high school. That was my life.
Audra McDonald
#33. When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box.
Audra McDonald
#34. When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked in musical theater and ended up doing a lot of comedy.
Leslie Easterbrook
#35. People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.
Katee Sackhoff
#36. We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.
Harold Prince
#37. While I love musical theater, it wasn't the right fit for me. It's so competitive, and I was at such a disadvantage, having started performing when I was 17.
Jack Falahee
#38. I do think musical-theater actors can get a bad rap, and I see why. There is a certain slickness - there's nothing better than an amazing musical, but an okay musical can be one of the worst times you've ever had.
Laura Benanti
#39. Musicals are my favorite. I'm a musical theater buff.
Rutina Wesley
#40. I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was really interested in musical theater. After writing my first couple of songs and performing at age 14, I knew that I really wanted to be a singer.
Daya
#41. I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.
Sara Paxton
#42. Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
Rachel Bloom
#43. Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
Nathan Lane
#44. Singing is more of a hobby than really something I want to do for a career. But I love musical theater, so I'm hoping I can go back to it and do a role on Broadway for a few weeks. That would be a dream come true. My dream role would be Roxie in 'Chicago.'
Jillian Rose Reed
#45. I graduated with a degree in musical theater and no skill in anything else to make money; I wish I had gotten a massage therapy kit or something where I could have made my own money.
Kathleen Rose Perkins
#46. I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.
Aprilynne Pike
#47. It's funny ... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.
Bryan Batt
#48. I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
Rachael MacFarlane
#49. I've always been really artistic. I went to an all-girls private Catholic school, and one of their biggest things was musical theater.
Daniela Bobadilla
#50. I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical program, so we did Chekov and Moliere and a lot of Shakespeare.
Christine Woods
#51. Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
Sam Tsui
#52. All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.
Rachel Bloom
#53. I always wanted to make an album, but I knew that I didn't want it to be a musical theater album. It's not that I don't love them - I own every musical theater album ever made - but it just didn't seem right for me.
Megan Hilty
#54. It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical theater ... it is quite legitimate to use the form of the popular song and gradually fill it out with new musical content.
Kurt Weill
#55. I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.
Drew Lachey
#56. I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.
Scott Bakula
#57. I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
Zac Efron
#58. I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last 100 years, but I really wanted, for my first step forward, to choose material that has inspired me and got me into the world of musical theater.
Josh Groban
#59. Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.
Janel Parrish
#60. I started acting when I was 10, doing musical theater. I was a brunette at that time. I was always cast in all the exotic parts.
Loni Anderson
#62. I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go Wildcats), babysitter, photojournalist, drill team girl, emo kid - and not one of them defined me, but every single one will always play a part in who I am.
Debby Ryan
#63. When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
Tamara Tunie
#64. 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
#65. I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
Samuel Larsen
#66. I've always been interested in music. In high school, I did a lot of musical theater, and I loved it.
Rosanna Pansino
#67. If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#68. I was really sporty and loved singing. I started off doing musical theater. I left university to go to drama school. So I was a bit of a black sheep.
Sophie Cookson
#69. I've been doing musical theater since I was a kid. And look for a CD from me in the future. I want to write all the songs!
Zac Efron
#70. I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
Jennifer Garner
#71. I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.
Tatiana Maslany
#72. I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.
Idina Menzel
#73. I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.
Michelle Branch
#74. When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.
Sam Claflin
#75. I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
Jesse Eisenberg
#76. I just love performing so much, and I threw myself into every musical theater production that was going in my home town and at school. And then, I went to the National Youth Music Theatre, which was really a galvanizing experience for me when I was 17.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#77. I love singing! I was a musical theater girl in high school. We were always singing and dancing around, and just doing little community theaters and high school musicals. Then, when I got to NYU, I focused more on drama.
Katie Lowes
#78. I'll always be an actor first. I grew up doing musical theater, so music and acting, to me, have always gone hand in hand. I'm going to be an actor first because it's my career, but music will always be a part of me.
Jon Huertas
#79. I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.
Harold Prince
#81. As an actor, you generally don't get to choose what projects you are part of, so I've been very fortunate that 'The Book of Mormon' was something I got to be part of. I don't want to be lofty, but it was groundbreaking, in many ways, for musical theater, so that was really thrilling to be part of.
Andrew Rannells
#82. I did musical theater, and I did dancing for what it was at the performing arts high school that I went to. I went to a school where I was there on a scholarship. So I think when you're on a scholarship, you always work a tad harder, or you want to work a tad harder than the next person.
Cassie Ventura
#83. I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte.
Cristin Milioti
#84. One of the reasons I got into musical theater was Anthony Warlow. I was obsessed with the 'Jekyll and Hyde' concept album because of him.
Rob McClure
#85. I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive, and we're very obsessive, and we're very critical. So don't screw with our stuff.
Richard LaGravenese
#86. I got successful awfully quick, and I wanted it ... But I do think there is responsibility to move the musical theater form forward. I think you always have to be aware of the work that came before and build on that.
Harold Prince
#88. I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes.
Gugu Mbatha-Raw
#89. Sondheim is the Shakespeare of the musical theater world.
Mandy Patinkin
#90. I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.
Zac Efron
#91. I was never much of a musical theater guy, but I have so much more respect for the art form, the physical exertion of doing eight shows on Broadway a week, I cannot even fathom it.
Chris Pine
#92. I was heavily involved in musical theater.
Brad Goreski
#93. I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.
Rachel Bloom
#94. I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.
Allison Williams
#95. My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
Zachary Levi
#96. I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater
Tavis Smiley
#97. I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a better 'Oklahoma!' someplace, a better 'West Side Story.' And I'd like to be mixed up in it.
Richard Rodgers
#98. People who are feeling bullied and people who feel like outsiders should talk to their parents and guardians about finding a place with likeminded people where they can feel accepted. That's what I needed, and that's what I found with musical theater.
Nick Jonas
#99. I've never had any feeling of disconnection between the classical theater, or the contemporary theater, or musical theater, or the thing that we call opera.
Trevor Nunn
#100. I grew up listening to a lot of player-piano music in my house and a lot of old Tin Pan Alley songs and American standards. My dad listened to a lot of traditional Irish music and I grew up doing musical theater. So most of the music I was exposed to as a kid was pre-rock n' roll.
John C. Reilly
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