Emotion Quote by Anthony Head

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

— Tom Kitt

Musicals allow a depth of emotion that you don't get in another form of acting, the chord changes, the lyrics really affect people, so…

— Michael Ball

People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really conversational, it's…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?

— Damien Chazelle

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

— Margaret Atwood

When musicals don't work, they really don't work. But when they work, and someone is singing because they can't speak anymore, or they're dancing…

— Rob Marshall

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

— Ismail Merchant

I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking…

— Marisa Tomei

In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.

— John Mellencamp

I love movie musicals because I think there is an amount of emotional honesty that's needed to portray someone who feels so deeply that…

— Jessica Rothe

Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of…

— Megan Mullally

I've grown to really love musicals, you know?

— Philip Seymour Hoffman