Quotes About Billy Elliot

#1. I think of all the guys that strap a gun on their backs and head to Afghanistan and Iraq to keep us free and safe and maintain what America has stood for.

Foster Friess

#2. Silly bug, fly on the wall, our first fight and how quickly we are over it. Of course I don't hate you, dearest, beloved, most cherished, I owe you everything.

A.M. Homes

#3. 'Billy Elliot' prides itself on being a family show, and it made sense to specifically cater to a family audience with an earlier evening curtain time.

Eric Fellner

#4. I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

Lauren Groff

#5. Either you have the ability to hit or not. But I also think you have to work at it.

Tony Gwynn

#6. In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

Lee Hall

#7. I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

Philip Larkin

#8. I'll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine

Elton John

#9. Your heart is a conduit through which the spirit speaks to the mind.

Steven Redhead

#10. The setting of 'Billy Elliot' is the British miners' strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing.

Terry Teachout

#11. I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

Olesya Rulin

#12. You'd kiss me back right now if I kissed you," he said, and I tried to decide whether to even attempt denial. "But then you'd remember him and you'd feel bad for it.

Heather Hildenbrand

#13. Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself, trying to be me?

Elton John

#14. I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.

Barbara Castle

#15. Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.

Pico Iyer

#16. 'Billy Elliot' embodies the idea that anyone can achieve anything regardless of their socio-economic background.

Eric Fellner

#17. I like four-hour movies.

Kevin Costner

#18. It's hard to define somebody by one movie. I mean, unfortunately, my entire life was basically made by Billy Elliot. It was kind of created by that one catalytic moment.

Jamie Bell

#19. I don't watch any films. Billy Elliot is the only film I've seen in the last 25 years. Oh, and ET. Both of which I loved!

Omar Sharif

#20. Look at Greg Jbara! I've watched him work for years, always switching. He's literally a different human being when he's onstage in 'Billy Elliot.' That's the fun of what we do.

Will Chase

#21. The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.

Eric Fellner

#22. I am surrounded by counselors. My sister is a counselor. My daughter is training to be a counselor. A lot of my friends are counselors.

Sue Townsend

#23. But, on more accounts than one, I had had enough of moose-hunting. I had not come to the woods for this purpose, nor had I foreseen it, though I had been willing to learn how the Indian manvred; but one moose killed was as good, if not as bad, as a dozen.

Henry David Thoreau

#24. Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.

Sinclair B. Ferguson

#25. The fact is, 'Billy Elliot' is an incredible show, for any age and any gender. 'Degrassi' fans would absolutely fall in love with 'Billy Elliot.'

Jake Epstein

#26. In 'Billy Elliot,' there were, like, 24 kids, so that was crazy. In 'Annie,' there's nine of us; we're all great friends, and we hang out all the time. We really are just sisters.

Lilla Crawford

#27. I was on vacation in New York when my agent called asking if I wanted to go right in and audition for 'Billy Elliot,' so I was lucky to be there.

Lilla Crawford

#28. I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

Lee Hall

#29. Each of us is as full of the Spirit as we really want to be.

J. Oswald Sanders