Musicals Quotes · Page 6

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

It's the basic rule of musicals: Characters sing when their emotions become so intense that they can't do anything else.

— Tom Kitt

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

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

— Alex Scott

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

We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing'…

— Yvonne Strahovski

My mom raised a self-aware kid. I wasn't like the typical alpha male. I wasn't afraid to sing, you know? I wasn't…

— Khalid

I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to…

— Cristin Milioti

While many of my musicals deal with big themes and ideas, I don't intentionally go looking to write shows like that. A…

— Stephen Schwartz

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. I feel the actors are being put through a…

— Wallace Shawn

I never get that thing, everyone starts singing, then everyone else sings the same, and I'm like, 'How did you know the…

— Lee Evans

Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like…

— Damien Chazelle

We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched…

— Kelli O'Hara

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

— Samuel Larsen

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

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

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

— Scarlett Johansson

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

— Joss Whedon

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

— Billy Eichner

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

— Russell Crowe

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

— Joshua Henry

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

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

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

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true…

— Lisa Randall

Musicals are made of several climaxes that keep growing and growing; when you think it's over, it still continues growing up in…

— Alexandre Desplat

I must say when I was a kid, before I got introduced to Brando and De Niro or any of those, it…

— David Morrissey

I found acting when I was 14, when I got cast in the chorus in a high school play, 'The Boyfriend.' In…

— Holly Hunter

I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I would love to…

— Kate Mara

I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always…

— Thomas Sangster

Organized religion and musicals present tenets to live by that don't entirely make sense but, on the whole, make people who believe…

— Lisa Randall

Some of my favorite films are musicals, like 'Walk the Line,' 'The Rose' and 'Lady Sings the Blues.' I just love the…

— Gina Prince-Bythewood

A lot of '20s musicals were a hodgepodge of melodrama, mixed with operetta and romance, and then some sense of modernism and…

— George C. Wolfe

I listened to John Denver and Simon & Garfunkel. Edith Piaf was a huge favourite. Then I discovered musicals - I loved…

— Gin Wigmore

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