Musicals Quotes · Page 5

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

— Tim Rice

I did three musicals in high school.

— Heather Headley

Singing was always the thing - I played some leads in musicals. Then when I went to college, I joined a singing…

— Ken Howard

“Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself, trying to be me?”

— Elton John

I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.

— Chance The Rapper

Personally, as a lover of musicals, I think we should do a musical version of 'Silent Witness!'

— Liz Carr

I started doing musicals, but the acting bug bit when I did a four-week Shakespeare workshop.

— Jessie Buckley

I'm thrilled in a way because musicals should be preserved. It's mostly unique to America, and they give us so much joy.

— Julie Andrews

New York, with its stage musicals and night club shows, is the place to go. Success there will open the doors of…

— Vera-Ellen

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it.

— Chandra Wilson

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

I loved Hollywood musicals and would dance around in the living room to 'Top Hat' when I was a child. I was…

— Tara Fitzgerald

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

— Janina Gavankar

When my daughter was younger we showed her all the great musicals. And the great dramas and great comedies, and the one…

— Bette Midler

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

— Wayne McGregor

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've always loved singing, and wanted to do musicals. Watching them as a child was what convinced me that I wanted to…

— Rebbie Jackson

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

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I…

— Tatiana Maslany

Musicals are very different from other films. And as an actor, when you're preparing for one, you train an entirely different skill…

— Zac Efron

When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was…

— Lea Salonga

What I think is great about Pippin, specifically, and I wouldn't make this generalization about all musicals, is that it is about…

— James Ponsoldt

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

— Stephen Moyer

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

— Stephen Sondheim

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

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

Outside football, I like to go to musicals or the theatre. My favourite one is the 'Jersey Boys.'

— Mousa Dembele

I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did.

— Daveed Diggs

Most of the musicals I go to I simply don't enjoy, so I don't go to them unless a number of people…

— Michael Feinstein

When I have an evening out I like to see big musicals where the whole audience is encouraged to giddy up out…

— Graeme Souness

I've been choreographed in various musicals before. So I'm not completely two left feet.

— Roger Allam

Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.

— John O'Hara

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up.

— Kirsten Nelson

“I chose and my world was shaken, so what? The choice may have been mistaken, the choosing was not.”

— Stephen Sondheim

I love musicals, and I grew up with them, but the first time I thought I could really do this was when…

— Josh Segarra

I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers…

— Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why…

— Frank Oz

I kind of feel like with a musical, there's so few original musicals that people just don't know what to expect.

— Michael Gracey

Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics.

— Bruce Vilanch