Anything Quote by Tom Kitt

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

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

Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting.

— Amanda Seyfried

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

The definition of a musical is that the emotion is so strong that you can't talk anymore, you have to sing. The emotion isn't…

— Rachel Bloom

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

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

— Ismail Merchant

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 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

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

When an actor sings a song, he will be able to bring forth the emotion in it much better than a playback singer.

— Gopi Sundar

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

— Julie Taymor