Top 100 Quotes About Musicals
#1. It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.
Neil Patrick Harris
#4. Don't forget that most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
Sherman Edwards
#5. I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitely many musicals that I enjoy. 'Hair' and 'Rent' might be my favorites.
Sebastian Stan
#6. Some of my favorite films are musicals, like 'Walk the Line,' 'The Rose' and 'Lady Sings the Blues.' I just love the way the music and the story fuel each other.
Gina Prince-Bythewood
#8. My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York.
Jacki Weaver
#9. It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be done by totally black casts.
Dane DeHaan
#10. I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes.
Corbin Bleu
#11. You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it.
Jason Robert Brown
#13. The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't find in churches or school books and it really made me come alive in a way.
Rosie O'Donnell
#14. I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too. I was in 'Nowhere Boy.' I played Paul McCartney. That was kind of musical - we did songs in that.
Thomas Sangster
#15. I would like to do some musicals.
Andy Lau
#16. I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.
Patricia Birch
#17. But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.
Vincente Minnelli
#18. I hate musicals, especially film musicals.
Santigold
#19. I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn't stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.
Ginger Rogers
#20. 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
#21. I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.
Matthew Bourne
#22. For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well.
Jack O'Brien
#23. Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.
Ismail Merchant
#24. There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.
Julie Harris
#25. I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in 'Big Momma's House,' and that's something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway or in the movies. I don't think I would ever seek a career as a singer.
Jessica Lucas
#27. When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
Bartlett Sher
#28. When I was a young woman, before I moved to New York, working in small, non-Equity theatres in the Midwest, I did a lot of musicals in my early to mid-20s.
Jayne Houdyshell
#29. Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.
James Wolcott
#30. When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more with 'Bombay Dreams.'
Raza Jaffrey
#31. I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led to those who help us most to grow
If we let them and we help them in return.
Stephen Schwartz
#32. Honestly, musicals? I just can't. What if this was real life and I was just walking down the street on Rodeo Drive and all of a sudden I just burst into song about how much I love shoes?
Miley Cyrus
#33. I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school to perform. I was not just keen on that, it was during that time, during the school period then from an early age, that I began to dream about acting.
George Ogilvie
#34. I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.
Sara Bareilles
#35. Musicals are strictly for homosexuals and womenfolk, Kenny says drily, in a way that's so post-post-post-ironic it actually stops being communication, and simply becomes confusing and unhelpful.
Caitlin Moran
#36. I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.
Colin Meloy
#37. I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it.
John Lloyd Young
#38. I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater.
Angela Lansbury
#39. I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#40. Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux.
Tim Curry
#41. I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, 'How does she know who Ginger Rogers is?' Then, one weekend, Josephine Baker popped up in a French film called 'Zouzou,' and I was so stunned because she looked like me.
Cush Jumbo
#42. If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine would be writing for Broadway, which would be amazing. As it stands, it's the worst stuff that's mired in pop music.
Colin Meloy
#43. I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved 'Les Miserables' - and, at about 14, I started listening to David Gray.
Gin Wigmore
#44. I've been a performer for a long time, but I really don't have any dancing experience. I did some of the musicals in high school, and I was in the glee club for a little while just to try and gain some skills ... I was not good at it.
Brant Daugherty
#45. When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, which we rehearsed for during the afternoons.
Jenna Ushkowitz
#46. Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.
Peter Stone
#47. I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends.
Anna Kendrick
#48. Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.
Marvin Hamlisch
#50. I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.
Rufus Wainwright
#51. Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.
Tracie Bennett
#52. Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.
Bruce Vilanch
#53. Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it ... It's none of it simple.
Harold Prince
#54. I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely false. I love musicals. My house is very bright and lit. It's not what people would really expect from a Saw director, but I think that's what allows me to do the things that I do.
Darren Lynn Bousman
#55. As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as a teenager, I got into an acting class at SUNY Purchase for gifted kids, and that really turned me on to material beyond musicals, Sam Shepard, and Christopher Durang plays.
Matisyahu
#56. I'll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine
Elton John
#58. I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?
Mario Cantone
#59. The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.
Joss Whedon
#60. What would Samuel Becket say if he knew that Broadway musicals are all that survived of the theatre world?
Amber Dawn
#61. I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.
Matisyahu
#62. The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films.
Ben Wheatley
#63. My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in the car, and we'd go on a lot of long family car trips. It was either strange musicals or James Taylor - or Whitney Houston. It was quite the combination there.
Jessie Mueller
#65. I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.
Kate Mara
#66. But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.
Dick Van Dyke
#67. I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.
Harold Prince
#68. She spent her idle time conceiving of musicals that would never be. It was the only medium that could properly express our true madness and hypocrisy---our collective ability to sit in a theater watching lunatics sing nonsense while the world outside burns.
Dave Eggers
#69. If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.
Buck Bannister
#70. I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.
Julie Taymor
#71. Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
Damien Chazelle
#72. In fact, is the idea of a serious comparison of American musicals and opera really so outrageous?
Lawrence W. Levine
#73. I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.
Russell Crowe
#74. I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy.
Oscar Isaac
#75. I never pursued voice hard enough. I've done musicals here and there, but I was never dedicated to really being one of these fantastic, operatic kind of singers that you have to be in some of these musicals.
Allison Tolman
#76. I definitely knew I wanted to be an actor in high school. I was doing plays and musicals, and I loved 'Saturday Night Live' and thought that was what I wanted to do - funny sketches and comedies. So I knew then, but I didn't know how to go about it, but I found my way.
Jerry Trainor
#77. Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
#78. That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.
Vincente Minnelli
#79. I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
Marvin Hamlisch
#80. And you find some way to survive
And you find out you don't have to be happy at all..
To be happy you're alive.
Brian Yorkey
#81. I'm not really a 'puppet' person in particular; I think they are very theatrical, and I've found different uses for them in shows, but my true interest is in writing Broadway musicals.
Robert Lopez
#82. Organized religion and musicals present tenets to live by that don't entirely make sense but, on the whole, make people who believe them secure, thus giving an appearance of inclusiveness.
Lisa Randall
#83. I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals.
David Bowie
#84. I find Mormons adorable. I love Disneyland and old musicals, and, to me, Mormonism fits right in with all of that.
Trey Parker
#85. Musicals are my favorite. I'm a musical theater buff.
Rutina Wesley
#86. I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since the end of my marriage, I've dated nothing but a succession of blondes.
Hugh Hefner
#87. I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.
Lee Daniels
#88. I've been involved in burlesque for a really long time and I've always been really interested in burlesque, and I was writing musicals for different studios.
Steve Antin
#89. As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.
Graydon Carter
#90. I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see 'Tommy' when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.
Amy Adams
#91. I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.'
Lindsay Hartley
#92. Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration.
Stephen Sondheim
#93. [WASHINGTON]
It's alright, you want to fight, you've got a hunger
I was just like you when I was younger
Head full of fantasies of dyin' like a martyr?
[HAMILTON]
Yes
[WASHINGTON]
Dying is easy, young man. Living is harder
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#94. Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.
Ezra Koenig
#95. I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.
Julie Harris
#96. Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.
Mallory Jansen
#97. The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
Laurie Anderson
#98. Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.
Stephen Sondheim
#99. Men go to musicals. Women are the ones who buy the tickets for plays.
John O'Hara
#100. Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.
Josh Radnor
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