Musicals Quotes · Page 8

I can't stand musicals, but I love dance because it's a corporeal language that can be so rich and sometimes so unusual.

— Gaspar Noe

I always thought I'd be good at musicals, and it turns out I make up for my lack of skill with enthusiasm.

— Leslie Jordan

'The Light in the Piazza' is one of my top three musicals of all time.

— Joshua Henry

“What would Samuel Becket say if he knew that Broadway musicals are all that survived of the theatre world?”

— Amber Dawn

I grew up loving Broadway musicals. I'd put on my parents' cast albums and stand on the stool and sing in the…

— Susan Lucci

I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland.

— Russell Crowe

Any actor in musicals would probably want to play Fagin or maybe Tevye in 'Fiddler on the Roof'.

— Omid Djalili

I did start out as an actor. I went to Northwestern; I did musicals. I did plays.

— Billy Eichner

There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football,…

— Ben Platt

The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree…

— Stephen Sondheim

I'd always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that…

— Jonathan Groff

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of…

— John Lithgow

I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the…

— Adam Sandler

I spent a lot of time doing my first few jobs in New York, just doing workshops of musicals. That's the best…

— Molly Gordon

I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in 'Big Momma's House,' and that's something I would…

— Jessica Lucas

Musicals are not something I have had vigorous training in. But it's definitely something that I want to do. I don't like…

— Shalita Grant

There are musicals I've enjoyed watching, but there aren't many parts in them that appeal to me. I'm a pretty good singer,…

— Michael Sheen

For performances I have my favorite go to's like Prince, Donna Summer, Vanity 6, Sheila E, but it also depends on the…

— Mya

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as…

— Matisyahu

Where we're telling the story of the history of the ensemblist [in the "Ensemblist Essentials"], using the nine musicals that have won…

— Nikka Graff Lanzarone

Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but…

— George C. Wolfe

I'm always collaborating with other writers because I don't write my own books for musicals.

— Stephen Schwartz

Now that I'm in my late 40s, I'm trying to make up for a little bit of lost musicals time.

— Sarah Lancashire

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

— Scarlett Johansson

I hate those vacuous musicals, the happy-happy, 'Let's have a good time' shows.

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

— Joss Whedon

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

— Andrea Martin

When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more…

— Raza Jaffrey

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

— Alexander Hanson

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

— Vincente Minnelli

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

— Samuel Larsen

I watch a lot of live music, and I love the theatre, especially musicals.

— Alex Scott

I always think with new musicals, buying tickets is always a gamble.

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

I got kind of obsessed from a very young age about musicals and costumes and acting.

— Naomi Ackie

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

— James Corden

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

— Wallace Shawn

I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.

— Yvonne Strahovski

I loved musicals, love them still. But also, I'm really inspired by comedy music.

— Rachel Bloom

Musicals look beautiful and great and fun, but man, when you're getting into it, you got to be on top of it.

— Haaz Sleiman

I did a lot of stage plays and musicals, and my first proper acting job was on 'Holby City' when I was 15.

— Lee Ryan