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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

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

— Julie Taymor

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

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

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

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia.

— Carmen Ejogo

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.

— Harold Prince

We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.

— Anthony Head

I love musicals more than anything.

— Matthew Broderick

I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you…

— Betty Gilpin

A lot of people, especially from my generation, don't like musicals because they feel so much has been put in there for no reason.

— Peaches

I love musicals. When they work, there's nothing like it.

— Cristin Milioti