Musicals Quotes · Page 7

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

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner.

— George Jean Nathan

Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.

— Margaret Atwood

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 got kind of obsessed from a very young age about musicals and costumes and acting.

— Naomi Ackie

I always think with new musicals, buying tickets is always a gamble.

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

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

— Tom Kitt

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

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

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 written in English, and then we import them to Japan. When we translate them into Japanese, the sounds of the…

— Ken Watanabe

We're finding that the casting of 'A Few Good Men' is different from the musicals because the kind of actors that you…

— Craig Zadan

I thought that I could do some kind of vehicle involving rock musicals and presenting rock and characters and storyline in a…

— David Bowie

It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed…

— Dane DeHaan

I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one…

— Amy Adams

I think musicals are a lowbrow, populist art form. And I don't mean lowbrow in a condescending way at all - they…

— George C. Wolfe

I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire…

— Queen Latifah

I always enjoyed participating in artistic endeavors, and I remember in high school participating in chorus, drama and singing madrigals, mainly because…

— Roger Bart

I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because…

— Alan Rickman

I'm very aware of the fact that Broadway musicals being brought to the screen are very few and far between, and it's…

— Rob Marshall

Musicals are good times. I live to do a musical, there's nothing like it, no experience like that in the movie business.…

— Queen Latifah

I think we sublimated our Broadway desires by doing theater in Hollywood - not on stage but by doing the movies of…

— Craig Zadan

I don't want to denounce musicals because they certainly have a message they want to communicate. But with straight plays, there is…

— Sean Mahon

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

— Elaine Paige

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 loved musicals, love them still. But also, I'm really inspired by comedy music.

— Rachel Bloom

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

I grew up doing musicals in my childhood at school, along with all the plays I used to be involved in.

— Yvonne Strahovski

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.

— Wallace Shawn

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

— Joss Whedon

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

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

— Alexander Hanson

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

— Samuel Larsen

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

— Vincente Minnelli

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

— Alex Scott

When I did musicals in London a number of years ago, I was in a workshop scenario for a year or more…

— Raza Jaffrey

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.

— Andrea Martin

'Chicago' kind of set the bar in terms of how we approach musicals, and tone is one of the key elements.

— Craig Zadan