Musicals Quotes · Page 6

I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.

— Damien Chazelle

I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the…

— Michael Urie

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

— John Mellencamp

I really like musicals - 'The Music Man,' 'Oklahoma!,' 'Li'l Abner,' 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

— Brendon Urie

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

— Julie Taymor

“Music soothes the mind just as painkillers would soothe a sprain.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I kind of grew up on musicals, specifically, for whatever reason. They're something that really attracted me as a child.

— Rob Marshall

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.

— Ian Mckellen

People in their early 20s are not often considered the target demographic for new plays; musicals have had much more success in…

— Paul Downs Colaizzo

The biggest myth I'd like to bust isn't about me - it's about musicals. So many people dismiss the entire art form…

— Michael Ball

American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve -…

— Hilton Als

I would love to do Broadway. That was my original aim, when I first started acting when I was 13. I wanted…

— Dove Cameron

Seth MacFarlane, he's kind of an entertainment Everyman. He loves musicals, he loves joke-driven comedies, and animated stuff. He likes comedy-comedy.

— Moshe Kasher

I've been a performer for a long time, but I really don't have any dancing experience. I did some of the musicals…

— Brant Daugherty

I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies…

— Colin Meloy

Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of…

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

I don't want to denounce musicals because they certainly have a message they want to communicate. But with straight plays, there is…

— Sean Mahon

I think we sublimated our Broadway desires by doing theater in Hollywood - not on stage but by doing the movies of…

— Craig Zadan

Musicals are good times. I live to do a musical, there's nothing like it, no experience like that in the movie business.…

— Queen Latifah

Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals,…

— Edgar Wright

I did a lot of musicals when I was young and finally went to drama school to try and get away from…

— Stephen Moyer

What I think is great about Pippin, specifically, and I wouldn't make this generalization about all musicals, is that it is about…

— James Ponsoldt

You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles.…

— Stephen Sondheim

I auditioned for 'Hamilton' and the 'West Side Story' Broadway revival and so many different stage musicals... It was never right, and…

— Rachel Zegler

One of the problems with musicals and opera is you can't ever hear all the words.

— Tim Rice

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals.

— Graydon Carter

I absolutely love working on musicals, but anytime I finish a project, I want to move on to something completely different.

— George C. Wolfe

I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs.

— Lindsay Hartley

I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.

— John Woo

I like musicals that are sometimes comedic, but I haven't even seen the Monty Python musical, and I'm a huge Monty Python…

— Matt Besser

Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.

— Pedro Almodovar

Many musicals you can take and throw in the garbage can because no one took the time to write a song you…

— Dennis DeYoung

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more…

— Josh Radnor

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.

— David Cassidy

Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals.

— David Bryan

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

— Hugh Jackman

I can't sing, so... I don't know if I will be doing any musicals.

— Chris Massoglia

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

— Julie Harris

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals…

— Sharon Van Etten