John Lithgow
Related If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the ... DAMIEN CHAZELLE West Side Story. It's a totally new experience for me. I've always loved theater. DIANA DEGARMO You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. Th... SAMUEL FULLER JEFFREY FRY West Side Story. CHITA RIVERA When you're paying everybody nothing, I mean, they have homes to pay for. And my movies are like... LEE DANIELS If you look at the demographic breakdown where sales occur, they are much heavier along the east and... JAMES RICCI We thrive because we do musicals, ... I look at theater as a business and produce a product that peo... JACKIE TAYLOR SRIKUMAR RAO They grew in beauty, side by side, / They filled one home with glee; - / Their graves are severed, f... FELICIA HEMANS They came in the side and one of them hit me in the head with the gun. When he hit me with the gun I... BILL GARCIA There's something about some of my favorite musicals that they put me in a sort of heightened st... DAMIEN CHAZELLE DEYTH BANGER PAULO COELHO rules ," he said, his voice dripping with veno... ALEXANDRA BRACKEN I was the music director at a dinner theater called the 'Pheasant Run Theater' in the suburb... SEAN HAYES The annuals, the yearbooks, brochures and programs of old plays and musicals...that all tells the st... TOM STONE They tested one side of thrusters and they'll look at when to test the other side. KYLIE CLEM My mom and dad are New Yorkers who left the tenement streets of the Bronx and came to Los Angeles wh... TAYLOR NEGRON JAMES MCBRIDE JOHN HURT CHUCK NORRIS STEVE VAI On 'Frasier,' a network executive once suggested that one week we have John Lithgow play Fra... CHRISTOPHER LLOYD TREY PARKER GENA SHOWALTER For the $20, you're not winning anything? That's what they're assuming when they send the $20 in. If... JEANNIE HOSKINS It's just nice, I guess. Knowing that someone else can put into words what I feel. That there are pe... HANNAH HARRINGTON STEPHEN SONDHEIM TIM O'BRIEN NEIL GAIMAN They heard one side of the story. The next jury will hear the entire story. BILL COTTER We're going to call it the 'west side story' because there is a lot to tell. SPARKY NOLAN I think 'West Side Story' is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put ons... KELLY ASBURY NORMAN VINCENT PEALE The wins by Alex and John were really the story of the match. If they don't win, it's 3-3 going into... ANDY BRUNNER West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York... VINCENTE MINNELLI PAUL RYAN I do feel like the media is one of the biggest problems. If you look at all these rolling news chann... FINN JONES HASSAN NASRALLAH In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the... VINCENT NICHOLS If you look at professional baseball in New York, you can get all 162 Yankee games on television any... PATRICK WHITESELL PAUL NEWMAN BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN MIKE LOVE AARON SORKIN JOHN PAUL WARREN Our land-use codes are specific and we certainly don't want to continue the old looks. The east side... GARY AUBUCHON I can't take the theater side out of myself. LAURA BELL BUNDY I really empathize with someone who takes on something like that. People are so quick to make the ea... GILBERT CHAVARRIA I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a b... RICHARD RODGERS Are the most dangerous creatures the ones that use doors or the ones that don't? DAVID WONG Throw riches out of the window and hit me with music! THUSH - THUSHARI NANAYAKKARA Look at Paul McCartney, look at Elton John. They're jealous of Justin Timberlake. I'm sure t... ROBBIE WILLIAMS I had a revelation in the fact that Palestinians are not the terrorists they are made out to be in t... PAUL KENNEDY TIM O'BRIEN KEMI SOGUNLE The water and sewer work are all done. The paver broke on the east side of Middlebelt, but they shou... JACK BARNES Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice started making musicals that had historical significance, ... They ... EDWARD HARRIS STEPHEN CHBOSKY That was an example of someone that really demonstrated the potential of music on the film side. The... MARK SMITH KIERA CASS Things always look darkest just before the bottom drops out. ARTHUR LIFSHIN There was a road running along the west side of our lot. But the town of Frisco hadn't put in the st... MARIE ZDECHLIK There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptation... DAMIEN CHAZELLE J.K. ROWLING They had been putting out posters with a very dark picture of Matt that didn't look much like him. W... CAROLYN MAUPIN When I started working with him, that's when I started seeing the legit side of the music business. ... AJ CASE It is all with the design of trying to reach out and expose the Carousel to a number of people in ou... JOE PALMER PAUL NEWMAN REGGIE WATTS Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON They ran out of fuel as the pilot was still negotiating with the hijackers at the time the plane hit... BRUCE THOMPSON When people say what is 'Gone With the Wind' about, they say it's a love story between R... DONALD MCCAIG I've done the fluffiest and the darkest theater pieces in recent history, MARC KUDISCH The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music. KELLI O'HARA At some point, they are going to have to knock a hole in the side of the wall and throw the rotisser... HARRY BALZER We send them all off with a workout plan. We hope they get out there and stay working out so that th... CHIP DURHAM Investors are betting on Apple's music story and not the Macintosh story. If they were betting on th... CHARLIE WOLF EDIE BRICKELL JOHN LENNON We knew once the draw came out, if we were fortunate to get by Frankfort, there was a good chance we... ANDY WEAVER I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple ... LAURA BENANTI They had no weaknesses that we could find. They have a lot of weapons, send in fresh bodies and keep... JEAN ROISE "Always love people for who they are, not for whom you like them to be." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN JOHN BOORMAN They out-hit us. We had no offense. They played with just that desire. They played aggressively. The... IRICK GARDNER They send stuff to you all the time. They send it to all the students. HANNA HARRIS They hear one side of the story and they almost always indict. The next jury will hear the entire st... BILL COTTER This [gift] puts Signature on the map with major theaters in New York, like the Public Theater and L... ERIC SCHAEFFER The dark areas, the 'mare' plains of the moon, are so incredibly smooth that the English ast... WILLY LEY The thing is with Phoenix, they are never down. They play their game no matter who is out there, and... LUKE RIDNOUR AARON MCGRUDER They struck us out only one time. We hit the ball, but they caught everything. We just can?t give aw... DAN CARBONE Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you. F. JOHNSON CHARLIE ROWE They really hit the heck out of the ball. Before you knew it they were already up four. BOB BREWSTER JOHN GREEN I can't stand to run a theater and face people when the shows are dirty. It's worth being able to lo... ART PROCTOR They're just as good as we are. They look like West Point, just not as many of us. DENNIS ALLEN
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