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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
LAURA BENANTI I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
SAMUEL LARSEN![]()
It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am ...
DAVID LEVITHAN I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beauti...
JOHN WOO![]()
The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk ab...
LAURIE ANDERSON The only musicals I've really worked on in New York are new musicals, and I like the idea that m...
PHILLIPA SOO I did musicals from about age 10 to 18.
ALISON LOHMAN When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious ch...
TAMARA TUNIE With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer,...
DAVID HENRY HWANG But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them a...
DICK VAN DYKE I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We ...
MAGGIE GRACE I did a lot of musicals growing up.
CHRIS WOOD I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be...
RACHEL BLOOM I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at h...
RACHEL TUCKER Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice started making musicals that had historical significance, ... They ...
EDWARD HARRIS I like musicals that look more like plays.
ALEX TIMBERS I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.
NORM MACDONALD![]()
I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of...
ANNA KENDRICK I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, ...
TAMMY BLANCHARD I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in t...
JESSE TYLER FERGUSON![]()
I don't think today's younger audience, ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.
JULIE ANDREWS Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I It is just a fun loving musical. 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' is not something that is featured a lot ...
ANGELA JONES Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musica...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE![]()
I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant,...
MARISA TOMEI![]()
I love Gershwin. I love musicals.
GLORIA ESTEFAN![]()
If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straigh...
ADAM RAPP And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN![]()
I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indign...
MARISA TOMEI![]()
I only know how to write musicals.
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years,
ELAINE PAIGE I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.
ELAINE PAIGE I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to...
MARC SHAIMAN When I was going through a break up once, I bought myself pickled herrings and watched french musica...
B.C. STERRETT I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I w...
KATE MARA![]()
Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe.
EZRA KOENIG![]()
Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a...
MALLORY JANSEN We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
LESLIE ODOM, JR. I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple ...
LAURA BENANTI I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of mov...
ADAM SHANKMAN![]()
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and...
JACKIE COLLINS![]()
As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. A...
MATISYAHU 'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone ga...
ELENA ROGER We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you c...
ANTHONY HEAD We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you c...
ANTHONY STEWART HEAD![]()
I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like eve...
GABOUREY SIDIBE My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musica...
MARSHA NORMAN![]()
I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion ...
MARIO CANTONE I think 'West Side Story' is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put ons...
KELLY ASBURY![]()
This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like 'Les Miserables.' The s...
LINDY BOOTH I got a chance to work with so many stalwarts from British cinema. Judi Dench, of course, who is a l...
ALI FAZAL![]()
I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That'...
ERIC IDLE Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialog...
PEDRO ALMODOVAR I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could ...
FRANZ WRIGHT We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing...
KELLI O'HARA![]()
This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po...
TERRY PRATCHETT It's tough to explain to them. Guys from out of state may have an idea of what it's about, but once ...
A.J. HAWK I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was '...
LAURA BENANTI The book is dedicated to my father, and it means so much to me because I really felt like my father ...
DOREEN CRONIN![]()
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I
had gained a new friend. When I ...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH![]()
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I re...
OLIVER GOLDSMITH![]()
I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda....
BERTIE CARVEL It's smart. A lot of people who don't like musicals like this one.
GARY CHRYST I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of...
TAO OKAMOTO![]()
I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying:...
MICKEY ROONEY We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that y...
ANTHONY HEAD I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and ...
HAL PRICE I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.
CASEY ABRAMS![]()
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD![]()
The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothi...
BEN WHEATLEY![]()
Oh, Kenneth, Kenneth, believe me - there's nothing I'd rather do! I want like hell to tell you. But ...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD![]()
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.![]()
[ELIZA]
You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me ...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Musicals became too expensive. When we were working at MGM, there was a whole company of talent - st...
GEORGE SIDNEY I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang ...
RACHEL PLATTEN![]()
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All ...
ZADIE SMITH the story does sing. It's like the musicals I loved as a kid when I had my head stuck in the stereo ...
DOUG HUGHES Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.
LIZ CALLAWAY My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the...
ALEXANDER KOCH![]()
I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitel...
SEBASTIAN STAN![]()
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musical...
MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV![]()
Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY![]()
When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, whic...
JENNA USHKOWITZ
LAURA BENANTI I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.
SAMUEL LARSEN
It's almost scary how amateur I am when it comes to musicals - I'm a musical goer, but I am ... DAVID LEVITHAN I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beauti...
JOHN WOO
The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk ab... LAURIE ANDERSON The only musicals I've really worked on in New York are new musicals, and I like the idea that m...
PHILLIPA SOO I did musicals from about age 10 to 18.
ALISON LOHMAN When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious ch...
TAMARA TUNIE With a musical, you kind of have to do a mind-meld with the book-writer, the lyricist, the composer,...
DAVID HENRY HWANG But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them a...
DICK VAN DYKE I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We ...
MAGGIE GRACE I did a lot of musicals growing up.
CHRIS WOOD I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be...
RACHEL BLOOM I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at h...
RACHEL TUCKER Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice started making musicals that had historical significance, ... They ...
EDWARD HARRIS I like musicals that look more like plays.
ALEX TIMBERS I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.
NORM MACDONALD
I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of... ANNA KENDRICK I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, ...
TAMMY BLANCHARD I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in t...
JESSE TYLER FERGUSON
I don't think today's younger audience, ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. JULIE ANDREWS Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I It is just a fun loving musical. 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' is not something that is featured a lot ...
ANGELA JONES Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musica...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant,... MARISA TOMEI
I love Gershwin. I love musicals. GLORIA ESTEFAN
If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straigh...
ADAM RAPP And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge.
ANDREA MARTIN
I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indign... MARISA TOMEI
I only know how to write musicals. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years,
ELAINE PAIGE I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.
ELAINE PAIGE I wouldn't have been able to live with myself if someone else did it. It's a very sweet valentine to...
MARC SHAIMAN When I was going through a break up once, I bought myself pickled herrings and watched french musica...
B.C. STERRETT I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie 'cause I love musicals and I w...
KATE MARA
Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe. EZRA KOENIG
Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a... MALLORY JANSEN We didn't go to Broadway musicals when I was growing up; it was too expensive.
LESLIE ODOM, JR. I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple ...
LAURA BENANTI I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of mov...
ADAM SHANKMAN
I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and... JACKIE COLLINS
As a kid, I was really into performing. I would do choruses, I would do musicals, whatever it was. A... MATISYAHU 'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone ga...
ELENA ROGER We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you c...
ANTHONY HEAD We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you c...
ANTHONY STEWART HEAD
I've grown up with girls that are like Precious. I've grown up with people that are like eve... GABOUREY SIDIBE My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musica...
MARSHA NORMAN
I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion ... MARIO CANTONE I think 'West Side Story' is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put ons...
KELLY ASBURY
This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like 'Les Miserables.' The s... LINDY BOOTH I got a chance to work with so many stalwarts from British cinema. Judi Dench, of course, who is a l...
ALI FAZAL
I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That'... ERIC IDLE Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialog...
PEDRO ALMODOVAR I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could ...
FRANZ WRIGHT We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing...
KELLI O'HARA
This is very similar to the suggestion put forward by the Quirmian philosopher Ventre, who said, "Po... TERRY PRATCHETT It's tough to explain to them. Guys from out of state may have an idea of what it's about, but once ...
A.J. HAWK I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was '...
LAURA BENANTI The book is dedicated to my father, and it means so much to me because I really felt like my father ...
DOREEN CRONIN
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I
had gained a new friend. When I ... OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I re... OLIVER GOLDSMITH
I think musicals can be more than what people imagine. That'll be the case with 'Matilda.... BERTIE CARVEL It's smart. A lot of people who don't like musicals like this one.
GARY CHRYST I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of...
TAO OKAMOTO
I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying:... MICKEY ROONEY We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that y...
ANTHONY HEAD I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and ...
HAL PRICE I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.
CASEY ABRAMS
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... ANN HOOD
The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothi... BEN WHEATLEY
Oh, Kenneth, Kenneth, believe me - there's nothing I'd rather do! I want like hell to tell you. But ... CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
[ELIZA]You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me ...
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Musicals became too expensive. When we were working at MGM, there was a whole company of talent - st...
GEORGE SIDNEY I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang ...
RACHEL PLATTEN
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All ... ZADIE SMITH the story does sing. It's like the musicals I loved as a kid when I had my head stuck in the stereo ...
DOUG HUGHES Time After Time/Dodsworth: New Songs from New Musicals.
LIZ CALLAWAY My manager got the script for 'Under the Dome,' and I read it and just fell in love with the...
ALEXANDER KOCH
I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitel... SEBASTIAN STAN
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musical... MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV
Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits. DAVID CASSIDY
When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop - I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, whic... JENNA USHKOWITZ
Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imaginat... 
I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my... 
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whethe... 
A mission statement is not something you write overnight... But fundamentally, your mission statemen... 
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. 
And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invadin... 
Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along ... 
Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o... 
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. 
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn... 
Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures,... 
I went to Cambridge and thought I would stay there. I thought I would quietly grow tweed in a corner... 
Ultimately, the question of campaign contributions will be decided by the public. 
We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles. 
I played the organ when I went to military school, when I was 10. They had a huge organ, the second-... 
I think because we're such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremos... 
Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. 
Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he ... 
All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, wh... 
Many a man in love with a dimple makes a mistake of marrying the whole girl. 
The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and... 
Because, let's face it, I do not get offered the parts that Brad Pitt has just turned down. 
But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one ... 
The concerts you enjoy together neighbors you annoy together children you destroy together that make... 
That word is 'willing.' It's an attitude and spirit of cooperation that should permeate our conversa... 
You are essentially who you create yourself to be and all that occurs in your life is the result of ... 
We accept the love we think we deserve. 
Sometimes people use thought to not participate in life. 
I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they... 
Almost every sinful action ever committed can be traced back to a selfish motive. It is a trait we h... 
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. 
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down. 
He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband ... 
I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here. 