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165 Musicals quotes by 135 unique authors
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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
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I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals.
— Vanessa Paradis
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You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.
— Harold Prince
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Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.
— Josh Radnor
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When you're young, you want to make every kind of film: musicals, Westerns, horror. Slowly you begin to hear your own voice. I hope people…
— Jason Reitman
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I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me…
— Alan Rickman
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I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found…
— Ginger Rogers
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I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios.
— Adam Sandler
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I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
— Wallace Shawn
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I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM…
— Zadie Smith
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The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
— Stephen Sondheim
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Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's…
— Stephen Sondheim
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When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals.
— Sylvester Stallone
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I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music,…
— Sharon Stone
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I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me.…
— Rufus Wainwright
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I love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting…
— Joss Whedon
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There are two things that I cannot resist: one is musicals and the other is a spaceship in trouble. But I am smart enough not…
— Joss Whedon
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I started acting as a child in Community Theatre but I didn't do any serious stuff. It was all musicals like 'Annie' and 'Wizard of…
— Michelle Williams
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Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms…
— James Wolcott
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New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation.
— Maureen Johnson
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The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to…
— Ellen DeGeneres
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I was a big fan of John Cassavetes, his wife, Gena Rowlands, and that era of filmmaking which was about realism and which represented the…
— Carmen Ejogo
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I would love to do more theatre, musicals... everything.
— Chris Pine
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I love singing! I was a musical theater girl in high school. We were always singing and dancing around, and just doing little community theaters…
— Katie Lowes
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I like musicals that look more like plays.
— Unknown Author
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