Musical Comedy Quotes

21 quotes by 18 authors

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is mine, making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether;… — P.G. Wodehouse
If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels… — Wilhelm Reich
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. — John Lithgow
No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not… — Margo Jefferson
I never walked the streets of New York hoping to be a musical comedy star. For one thing, they would have thought I was too… — Esther Williams
My background is in musical comedy. — Christopher Walken
The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially… — Wystan Hugh Auden
When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy. — Finley Peter Dunne
I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. — Billy Joel
To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs,… — Eric Idle
I considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star. — Arlene Dahl
Now it looks like I'll be known as the musical comedy guy. Which is good news for me. Or I'll be known as the New… — Bret McKenzie
If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration. — Robert Moses
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training. — Christopher Walken
I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose… — Christopher Walken
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do… — Christopher Walken
And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators,… — James Wolcott
Society is the picnic certain individuals leave early, the party they fail to enjoy, the musical comedy they find not worth the price of admission. — Joyce Carol Oates
I wanted to be on Broadway, but in musical comedy. — Carol Burnett
I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical… — John Cullum

Who Wrote These Musical Comedy Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 21 Musical Comedy Quotes as follows: