Musicals Quotes · Page 6

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe...

— Ezra Koenig

You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn't use microphones.

— Richard Bonynge

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love…

— Queen Latifah

I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.

— Mark Indelicato

Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there.

— Ismail Merchant

I used to do musicals in college, where I would sing, act and dance.

— Neeti Mohan

I've always been totally obsessed with theater - especially musicals.

— Beanie Feldstein

I think a lot of big musicals close because of the rules they're bound by that make it impossible for them to…

— Roger Taylor

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

Honestly, musicals? I just can't. What if this was real life and I was just walking down the street on Rodeo Drive…

— Miley Cyrus

A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or…

— Guy Pearce

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

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

— Holly Hunter

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 grew up watching the films of 'Carousel' and 'Oklahoma' and 'The Music Man' and 'My Fair Lady' - all the classic…

— Jessie Mueller

As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. And then, as…

— Matisyahu

There are musicals I've enjoyed watching, but there aren't many parts in them that appeal to me. I'm a pretty good singer,…

— Michael Sheen

For performances I have my favorite go to's like Prince, Donna Summer, Vanity 6, Sheila E, but it also depends on the…

— Mya

I feel that humor, just like Fred Astaire dance numbers or these lightweight musicals, gives you a little oasis. You are in…

— Woody Allen

I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of…

— Ginger Rogers

“Hamlet' dwarfs 'Hamilton' - it dwarfs pretty much everything - but there's a revealing similarity between them. Shakespeare's longest play leaves its…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter

My feeling about young people who want to pursue a career is - the first thing is do your homework on where…

— Lorna Luft

My grandmother introduced me to musicals and Fred Astaire and Cary Grant and all the American comedies and classics.

— Celine Sciamma

My only claim to music is a good sense of rhythm, and I have been in musicals and done some singing.

— June Whitfield

I majored in theater. I did plays. But musicals were not my thing.

— Daveed Diggs

I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater.

— Laura Benanti

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

— Russell Crowe

Any actor in musicals would probably want to play Fagin or maybe Tevye in 'Fiddler on the Roof'.

— Omid Djalili

I grew up loving Broadway musicals. I'd put on my parents' cast albums and stand on the stool and sing in the…

— Susan Lucci

I'm always collaborating with other writers because I don't write my own books for musicals.

— Stephen Schwartz

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

— Billy Eichner

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

— Julie Andrews

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

Ryan Murphy and I share our love of horror and musicals. I think those things somehow go together.

— Jason Blum

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

— Joshua Henry

“What would Samuel Becket say if he knew that Broadway musicals are all that survived of the theatre world?”

— Amber Dawn