Musical theater Quotes · Page 4

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— Shepherd Mead

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

— Drew Lachey

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

— Diane Paulus

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

— Carly Simon

Zooey Deschanel loves music, loves musical theater, loves the show of it.

— Jake Johnson

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

— Tavis Smiley

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

— Debra Messing

If I had to put in order what I love to do the most, it would be musical theater, movies, and then…

— Jaime Camil

I came from the musical stage. My first show was '110 In The Shade.' I started as a ballet dancer and then…

— Lesley Ann Warren

I was a musical theater major at the University of Arizona. And I primarily trained with Marsha Bagwell. It was a classical…

— Christine Woods

I was a professional ballerina. After becoming an actress, I did a lot of theater, which included musical theater. The first musical…

— Juliet Landau

Musical theater is great; you get painted up, you get to play princesses and witches, and you sing. The joy alone of…

— Chris Pine

When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious…

— Tamara Tunie

From a young age, I had done a lot of theater and musical theater. I wasn't really sure what I wanted to…

— Alexander Koch

I became an actor kind of by accident. I was in musical theater and I got a job as an actor in…

— Christopher Walken

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is…

— Claude-Michel Schonberg

I wanted to entertain and make people laugh. I think it really hit in third grade, but once I was in high…

— Chrissy Metz

Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz…

— Heather Mac Donald

I went through a few phases of finding myself: I dabbled in musical theater, chess club, dance troupe, splatter-painting, school mascot (go…

— Debby Ryan

I hoped that I could learn how to combine an education with acting. But I was unhappy with the direction I chose,…

— Michiel Huisman

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

When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my…

— Sam Claflin

I want as many people to see the show [Hamilton] in its musical theater form as possible before it's translated, and whether…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I think there are rock stars within every subgenre, and for people who are obsessed with musical theater Sutton Foster and Audra…

— Anna Kendrick

People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.

— Katee Sackhoff

Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

— Sam Tsui

I like to originate new roles and characters for musical theater.

— Idina Menzel

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

— Lara Pulver

I went to school for musical theater, and that is such a huge, central part of me.

— Helene Yorke

I think of the Roundabout as my musical theater family here in New York City.

— Jane Krakowski

My background is musical theater. I have a BFA from the University of Florida.

— GloZell

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

— David Hasselhoff

I've always liked musical theater, and getting to do stuff like that where I can just dance around and just be crazy…

— Josie Totah

For one thing, when I started working in the musical theater, there was no such thing as shows which ran 20 years.…

— Stephen Schwartz

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor. I did a lot…

— Bridget Regan

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just…

— Amy Adams

I didn't necessarily set out to be in musical theater, but that's where my path has taken me, and I've been loving…

— Diana DeGarmo

I am a musical-theater nut. When the lyrics, orchestration, and performance all come together just right, I come alive and can feel…

— Kelly Stables

I work in musical theater because people keep writing quality stories in the genre, and I'm really all about investing in a…

— Brandon Victor Dixon

But you know, I'm not 25 anymore, and I have always said musical theater in particular is a young person's game. It…

— Elaine Paige