Musical theater Quotes

I started in musical theater.

— Brett Cooper

I was a musical theater kid in high school.

— Rian Johnson

I love singing! I grew up in musical theater.

— Juliette Goglia

Musical theater is one of my passions.

— Patrick Wilson

I'm a musical theater girly.

— Melissa Barrera

Steve Sondheim got me into musical theater.

— Rachel Zegler

The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

— Idina Menzel

I am a big fan of musical theater.

— Josie Totah

If there is a Busta Rhymes of musical theater, it probably is Mandy Patinkin.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

— Jerry Herman

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

— Nathan Lane

Because I am the biggest musical theater nerd, I worship Sondheim.

— Beanie Feldstein

I love hip-hop; I love Sleigh Bells. I also love classical music and musical theater.

— Tatiana Maslany

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

— Aprilynne Pike

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

— Jesse Eisenberg

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

— Bryan Batt

I was probably singing before I could talk. Musical theater is my passion. If I could afford it, I would just do…

— Bethany Joy Lenz

I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald…

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a…

— Zac Efron

'If I Loved You.' All the way. Totally intimidated by it. From the outside, it has this aura of being one of…

— Jessie Mueller

Musical theater has always meant expression to me. It makes me sit back in my seat and say, 'How did they put…

— Rachel Zegler

I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or…

— Jennifer Garner

When I first started acting, I started in opera and had a great desire to play grand, tragic characters. I got sidetracked…

— Leslie Easterbrook

Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I…

— A. J. McLean

I definitely wasn’t cool in high school. I really wasn’t. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership…

— Dianna Agron

People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that…

— Guy Pearce

I was like, 'I'm only going to do musical theater for the rest of my life. I'm never going to do TV.'…

— Gaten Matarazzo

It seems to me that the American popular song, growing out of American folk music, is the basis of the American musical…

— Kurt Weill

I wanted to focus on songs that I was inspired by growing up. I love so many of them from the last…

— Josh Groban

When you're on stage, you're playing to whoever is in the back of the room, and TV and film is so much…

— Shannon Purser

I'm not an advocate of true rhymes, I don't think. I think that everyone who writes musical theater needs to know how…

— Robert Lopez

“Operating theaters are not nearly as popular as dramatic theaters, musical theaters, and movie theaters, and it is easy to see why.…

— Lemony Snicket

Popular music of the last 50 years has failed to keep in step with advances in musical theater, namely Stephen Sondheim. But…

— Stephin Merritt

I was working on Broadway in New York, and the Broadway strike happened, and my costar was working on a pilot with…

— Lea Michele

I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

“How is she already asleep?” Sully whispers. “At home she stays up until like two a.m.” “She probably was tired,” Church whispers…

— Francesca Zappia

I have a lot of respect for the musical theater plays.

— Christina Milian

I grew up doing musical theater.

— Chris Colfer

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

— Paulo Costanzo