Actor Quote by Jean Louisa Kelly

I'm not a huge musical fan. It's like when people just jump out singing; it's not real.

— Keke Palmer

The reality is that people need to be coaxed toward a musical. They need to understand why it's a musical.

— Alan Menken

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

— Tom Kitt

Doing a musical is like having a kid. It's out there alive somewhere. It's not like a movie or a TV show where what…

— Trey Parker

The artificiality of a movie musical is something we feel really comfortable working within.

— Ron Mael

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

I'm very opinionated about movie musicals when they're adapted from live shows. You'll sit still for a three-minute song in a theater. But in…

— Stephen Sondheim

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've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love,…

— Alia Shawkat

For a ridiculous analogy, let's take Purple Rain. If you were to put Purple Rain and The Sound of Music on the desk of…

— Gene Kelly

Most musicals are informed by very rigid archetypes. If you get a very sophisticated mind writing them, you sense something else, but it's a…

— George C. Wolfe

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