Musicals Quotes · Page 5

I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.

— Lindsay Hartley

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore.

— Dick Van Dyke

I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well.

— Josh Dallas

People go to musicals because they want to hear some really good songs.

— Dennis DeYoung

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

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

— Ken Berry

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

Musicals are — particularly musicals — plays also, but musicals particularly are… the last collaborator is your audience, and so you’ve got…

— Stephen Sondheim

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

— Tamara Tunie

The worst thing when you're working is to say, 'I have a question,' and the other person goes, 'No! This is what…

— George C. Wolfe

I always try to keep a little bit of space in the year to work with other people. Because I love doing…

— Wayne McGregor

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college.…

— Janina Gavankar

If Broadway musicals were as popular as they were in the 20s, 30s, and 40s, then people like Sufjan Stevens and Iron…

— Colin Meloy

Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of…

— Harold Prince

I love movie musicals because I think there is an amount of emotional honesty that's needed to portray someone who feels so…

— Jessica Rothe

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

— Marisa Tomei

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

— Rachel Zegler

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

— Jeff Britting

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

— Stephen Sondheim

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

— Stephen Moyer

“[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

“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

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

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

— Oscar Isaac

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

— Sheila Hancock

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

— Chris Massoglia

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

— Sharon Van Etten

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

— Julie Harris

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

— Pedro Almodovar

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

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

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