Musicals Quotes · Page 7

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

— Cary Grant

There's an incredibly grand attitude towards musicals. I don't understand why my profession is so snooty about it.

— Sheila Hancock

'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.

— Craig Zadan

I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land'…

— Jason Blum

I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy.

— Oscar Isaac

I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different…

— Laura Benanti

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

— Carmen Ejogo

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

— Richard Schiff

I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I…

— Jacob Artist

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found…

— Marvin Hamlisch

I wanted to be a concert pianist at Carnegie Hall; that is what I wanted to do from really early on. I…

— Kirsten Nelson

There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form…

— Gene Kelly

I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.'…

— Mario Cantone

I am a passionate, committed composer, and the guy I used to write musicals with, once he was able to ditch me…

— Eric Garcetti

I do like musicals, but I'm not so well-versed in them. I would rather tell stories that just so happen to have…

— Betty Gabriel

“Barbara Stanwyck, in particular, was peerless in everything from high and low comedy to drama to musicals to film noir. She never…

— Eve Golden

I love film scores and opera, and I wanted to work in those forms. But theater was more accessible. And no one…

— Jeff Britting

We would also go to musicals. So Singing In the Rain, On the Town, and West Side Story. Especially West Side Story…

— Marisa Tomei

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was…

— Lea Salonga

When they're watching musicals, I've heard people say, 'That's not realistic! Why would they just start singing?' But, I think they can…

— Jean Louisa Kelly

Musicals are very different from other films. And as an actor, when you're preparing for one, you train an entirely different skill…

— Zac Efron

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I…

— Tatiana Maslany

I grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic…

— Jessie Mueller

I feel that humor, just like Fred Astaire dance numbers or these lightweight musicals, gives you a little oasis. You are in…

— Woody Allen

“In fact, is the idea of a serious comparison of American musicals and opera really so outrageous?”

— Lawrence W. Levine

Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?

— Julian Ovenden

“[HAMILTON] I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.

— Jill Paice

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

— Julie Harris

I tend to invest a little more than I should when I do musicals, so it takes a lot out of me…

— Aneurin Barnard

You always do that with movie musicals. You prerecord and then you lip-synch to playback.

— Julie Andrews

The X Factor' - I watch it because I'm always searching for talent to use in my musicals, so they do all…

— Craig Revel Horwood

It used to be my ambition to emulate Fred Astaire on the stage and in motion picture musicals.

— Ken Berry

I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.

— Matt Bomer

Ryan Murphy and I share our love of horror and musicals. I think those things somehow go together.

— Jason Blum

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

— Julie Andrews

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…

— Laurie Anderson

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s.

— Matthew Bourne

Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.

— Margaret Atwood

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

— George Jean Nathan