Musicals Quotes · Page 8

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

— Sheila Hancock

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch.

— Richard Schiff

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

— Oscar Isaac

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 love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land'…

— Jason Blum

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

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer, the director - sometimes…

— David Henry Hwang

There's something to writing a hook and something to writing a memorable melody. That's what I liked about musicals. Then I realized…

— Sharon Van Etten

When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies…

— Sylvester Stallone

I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are…

— Hugh Jackman

I like musicals a lot. I think probably 'Jesus Christ Superstar' is my favorite. I love Andrew Lloyd Webber for the most…

— Alissa White-Gluz

I was in musicals and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs I…

— Sharon Van Etten

“It won't work I look before I leap I love margins and discipline I make lists in my sleep Baby what's my…

— Jonathan Larson

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

— Stephen Sondheim

Mel Brooks is an interesting one because he started out making films about stuff that he was totally affectionate about, like musicals,…

— Edgar Wright

I never solicited myself as a singer until I realized I could use that to a musical standpoint. I loved musicals growing…

— Dianna Agron

All the more a cheesy musical seems fake, so it requires a level of honesty to be injected or an acknowledgement of…

— James Ponsoldt

I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and…

— Jake Epstein

I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely…

— Darren Lynn Bousman

Many musicals you can take and throw in the garbage can because no one took the time to write a song you…

— Dennis DeYoung

I like musicals that are sometimes comedic, but I haven't even seen the Monty Python musical, and I'm a huge Monty Python…

— Matt Besser

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

— Pedro Almodovar

I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.

— John Woo

I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.

— Cary Grant

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

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

— Chris Massoglia

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

— Hugh Jackman

Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don't really rush out to see a bunch of musicals.

— David Bryan

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.

— David Cassidy

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

— Julie Harris

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays.

— Jill Paice

“[HAMILTON] I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory”

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I was always that fringe guy anyway, the guy who played football and then did the musicals.

— Matt Bomer

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

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

— Ken Berry

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