Top 82 Theatre Musical Quotes
#1. I'd love to do a musical one day - a theatre musical.
Spike Jonze
#2. I love the intimacy of making movies. The focus is deeper and much more intense than musical theatre.
Sarah Brightman
#3. I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people ... And it's got money!
Rufus Wainwright
#4. I'm trained in musical theatre and 'Pitch Perfect' is the first movie where I get to really belt out. I beat Adele for that role.
Rebel Wilson
#5. I did commercials and voice-overs as a kid, and it just lead to musical theatre opportunities.
Jennifer Damiano
#6. I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
Mandy Moore
#7. I think there's that weird bastardization where musical theatre actors are treated as almost like vaudevillians or circus performers - that we're somehow not good actors because we sing and dance.
Laura Benanti
#8. There is nothing wrong with loving musical theatre, but I think that it's naive to hold it superior any other musical classification, especially since these other genres have been influencing Broadway more and more in recent decades.
Stephanie D'Abruzzo
#9. I'm not a trained singer at all. I've auditioned on occasion for proper musical theatre-type stuff, but I can't read music, and I wasn't particularly good at it.
Hannah Murray
#10. Back in the Stone Age, before there were workshops, it was a very difficult idea to get into musical theatre. Normally, you would be a chorus girl or boy and write something. People would get their start as rehearsal pianists or dance assistants.
Maury Yeston
#11. I find it difficult to fully enjoy musical theatre songs if I don't know the storyline of the show they are from as well as the context.
Christian Campbell
#12. I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type.
Erica Schroeder
#13. I came to musical theatre from straight acting, and a lot of my friends have a real prejudice about musical theatre - one I probably shared.
Bertie Carvel
#14. Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.
David Naughton
#15. I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.'
Allison Williams
#16. Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training.
Christopher Walken
#17. I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people.
Josie Loren
#18. When I used to do musical theatre, my dad refused to come backstage. He never wanted to see the props up close or the sets up close. He didn't want to see the magic.
Nia Vardalos
#19. My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.
Antonia Thomas
#20. And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical biography of Ronald Reagan
Steve Kluger
#21. When I started out, I wanted to be Billy Joel. The plan was to be a singer-songwriter of that ilk, and, then, I got waylaid - that's probably an unfair way to say it - from being a rock star by the musical theatre stuff, which I love doing.
Jason Robert Brown
#22. I do think that there is an almost more old fashioned mentality to the way musical theatre people and actresses especially are treated.
Laura Benanti
#23. I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.
Richard C. Armitage
#24. I wanted to be a musical theatre actress - I wanted to play Sally Bowles, forever and ever always.
Carey Mulligan
#25. I went to an Arts High School, so everyone there was kind of anti-clique, though they still happened. I guess I was in the theatre-dork clique. Not to be confused with the musical-theatre-dork clique.
Finn Wittrock
#26. I can never say that I will never return to musical theatre. There may be a part in the future that I really want to do. I love plays as well. I am very open to ideas. I hope to do many things in the future.
Sarah Brightman
#27. My mum raised us on classic movies and a lot of musical theatre.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#28. The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.
Idina Menzel
#29. [ELIZA]
You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#30. I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.
Simon McBurney
#31. Opera is musical theatre, and the music can teach you so much about the theatre. Very often I use musical terms to think about how I comport myself on stage: I employ 'rubati,' 'ostinati,' 'cadenze.' Finding these parallels is very fascinating for me.
Toni Servillo
#32. I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.
Gareth Gates
#33. In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California where I was a member. It was a smash hit in this small theater.
Toni Tennille
#34. When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.
S.M. Stevens
#35. I was really, really, really enthusiastic as a kid. I was up for anything. I was hugely into music and theatre. I was a big musical theatre kid; I loved reading.
Amanda Marshall
#36. I was a little girl who grew up idolizing musical-theatre stars.
Laura Benanti
#37. I started out in theatre and I definitely have wanted to add extra musical elements to my music with both imagery and text.
Glenn Branca
#38. I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.
Billy Bob Thornton
#39. You couldn't even write me a paper about the roles you would dream of playing in modern musical theatre.
Elaine Paige
#40. I grew up doing musical theatre in Orlando, Florida. When I was 14, I just happened to be in the right place at the right time - a deliveryman heard me singing and offered to deliver my demo tape to Sony Music. I was just really lucky.
Mandy Moore
#41. I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
Sabrina Lloyd
#42. Frankly I don't listen to lyrics (a problem in that I apparently work in musical theatre) I just want a good tune that doesn't require the use of too much grey matter.
Christian Campbell
#43. I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.
Christopher Walken
#44. My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!
Kelis
#45. I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.
A. J. McLean
#46. I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.
Annaleigh Ashford
#47. I was lucky enough to see the original cast of 'In the Heights.' This one blew my mind. The infusion of Latin, hip hop and rap with musical theatre, great storytelling and talent was a powerful combination to me during a time when I'd not been moved by much!
Josh Young
#48. I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?
Patti LuPone
#49. I majored in musical theatre performance at college, then went through years of waiting tables and temping while looking for acting work.
Brooke Elliott
#50. I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.
Samantha Barks
#51. I would love to do a play, but I don't know about musical theatre. I've never done anything like that.
Chandra West
#52. I did a lot of musical theatre when I was younger, so I would love to go back and do that again someday.
Hayley McFarland
#53. It must have been an extraordinary time. I guess the worrying thing about musical theatre to me, is if you look at the London season this year, mine is actually the only one to have come in.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#54. I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.
John Kander
#55. When I look back at what musical theatre music and show music meant to me, first of all - more than anything - what it meant to me was work. As I was growing up, I realized that singing and performing was my strong suit.
Jason Mraz
#56. My high school musical did not offer a shirtless Zac Efron but it did provide me with many lessons. I learned that I loved being in a theatre, attending rehearsals, and building sets. I loved listening to the director and groaning about rehearsing choreography
Amy Poehler
#57. In the world of musical theatre, if everyone says it's a good idea, you wonder why nobody has done it before.
Tim Rice
#58. When it all comes true Just the way you planned It's funny but the bells don't ring It's a quiet thing.
Fred Ebb
#59. I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue in musical theatre, and be more involved in business.
Gareth Gates
#60. I'm grateful to be working. The most exciting thing for me is that I never get bored - I've done comedy, drama, musical theatre and now Shakespeare.
Sheridan Smith
#61. I've always loved musical theatre. I've always been a big kind of closeted musical theatre nerd. I really have always dreamed about being able to do musical theatre.
John Gallagher Jr.
#62. Musical theatre is something that I always wanted to be a part of, and my first ever role on the West End as Joseph in 'Joseph And The Technicolor Dreamcoat' gave me a taste for it.
Gareth Gates
#63. I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
Rachael MacFarlane
#64. I used to do puppet theatre and also mime and musical theatre in Florida for competitions and festivals, which was great. I was very much involved in theatre when I was in college.
Wesley Snipes
#65. There's an infantilization that happens to actresses in general - musical theatre, straight theatre, television, film - we're spoken to like children. Actors are spoken to like children a lot of the time.
Laura Benanti
#66. 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
#68. After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
Laura Osnes
#69. The first few weeks of school were always surreal, like you landed on an alien planet with strange teachers and unfamiliar classrooms, even though the lockers and cafeteria seemed familiar.
S.M. Stevens
#71. As we get older ... I don't know a single person who has devoted their life to musical theatre who hasn't had a couple of misses as well as a bunch of hits. The misses, we learn a great deal from them.
Maury Yeston
#72. The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
Harold Prince
#73. I love musical theatre and my dream is to do Once On This Island.
Syesha Mercado
#74. Musical theatre goes through cycles. I came in when it was at the absolute height of musical theatre as I remember it. It was the age of the long-runners.
Ruthie Henshall
#75. I was a musical theatre geek in high school and college.
Toks Olagundoye
#76. When you're in a show, all through rehearsals Tech Week hovers out there like a magical holy grail. In reality, Tech Week is always a train wreck of missed cues, forgotten lines, malfunctioning set pieces and short tempers.
S.M. Stevens
#77. It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.
Julian Ovenden
#78. My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.
Ben Aaronovitch
#79. Musical theatre is now a worldwide conversation.
Maury Yeston
#80. My first role was in the George Gershwin musical 'Crazy for You' at the Orlando Repertory Theatre when I was 11 - I grew up in Florida - and I wasn't old enough to be in it, but they let me anyway. I was just this little shrimp in a leotard.
Aubrey Peeples
#81. I'd never seen a guy my own age play the piano. It was like sex and musical theatre fused together.
E. Lockhart
#82. Q: Best part about being a musical theatre book writer?
A: Explaining what that is.
Christy Hall
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