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I don't think today's younger audience ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. ~ Julie Andrews
I can't sing, so ... I don't know if I will be doing any musicals. ~ Chris Massoglia
Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian. ~ Cameron Mackintosh
I was really into old musicals. When I was seven or eight, my mum and dad would be like, 'How does she know who Ginger Rogers is?' Then, one weekend, Josephine Baker popped up in a French film called 'Zouzou,' and I was so stunned because she looked like me. ~ Cush Jumbo
I think it's good to have an old fashioned musical as well as new musicals. There's a lot of room for different shows. ~ Laura Benanti
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time. ~ Alan Alda
Good," said Gideon. "It means the effect of the alcohol is wearing off. One question, by the way: what did you want a hairbrush for?"
"I wanted it as a substitute for a mike," I murmured through my fingers. "Oh, my God! I'm so horrible."
"But you have a pretty voice," said Gideon. "Even I liked it, and I told you I hate musicals."
"Then how come you can play songs from them so well?" I put my hands in my lap and looked at him. "You were amazing! Is there anything you can't do?" Good heavens, I heard myself sounding like a groupie.
"No. Go ahead, you're welcome to think me some kind of god!" He was grinning now. "It's rather sweet of you! ~ Kerstin Gier
I hate musicals, especially film musicals. ~ Santigold
What appealed to me about the whole production is how big it is. I don't do musicals because I don't sing very well. But this is the biggest stage thing I'll do that's not a musical. ~ Jeremy Sisto
I'm not the singer that I wish I was or that some people think I could be. I wish I had the pipes to just jump into musicals. ~ Michael Urie
Cause what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself, trying to be me? ~ Elton John
Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything ... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs. ~ Mallory Jansen
I do know one thing: I wish people were doing more dangerous musicals, more courageous musicals and not just falling into the trap of trying to figure out what the public wants, because you find out that the public very often wants what's good. ~ Hal Price
I think it's probably, musically, probably the most sophisticated. ("The Woman in White") There's a lot more daring harmony in it than in some of my pieces ... If you know what you want to do, as I always loved musicals, and then to have been lucky enough to be successful with them, I think that's all you can ask, isn't it? ... Sondheim is absolutely wonderful and Alan Jay Lerner was wonderful. ~ Andrew Lloyd Webber
I used to audition for musicals when I was in New York before I moved to L.A., but I couldn't quite hit a certain note, so I saw a teacher in L. A. who helped me get better at it. She showed me how to use a different part of my voice. You are never too old. ~ Missi Pyle
I think that of musicals - especially the big, splashy ones - require an actor that's also part cheerleader, too, and that's really tough to do if it's not something that really grabs you and your heart's not in it. ~ John Lloyd Young
Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner. ~ George Jean Nathan
As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals. ~ Graydon Carter
Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever. ~ Damien Chazelle
I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs. ~ Avril Lavigne
Kids talk to me and say they want to do musicals again because they've studied the tapes of the old films. We didn't have that. We thought once we had made it, even on film, it was gone except for the archives. ~ Gene Kelly
That's what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort. ~ Vincente Minnelli
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall. ~ Stephen Sondheim
A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music. ~ Guy Pearce
I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay. ~ Frank Oz
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. ~ Ismail Merchant
[ELIZA]
You and your words flooded my senses, your sentences left me defenseless. You built me palaces out of paragraphs, you built cathedrals. ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
I never solicited myself as a singer until I realized I could use that to a musical standpoint. I loved musicals growing up. Classic films were some of the only ones I watched. So when the opportunity came for the show to audition, of course it was all of a sudden, "I sing! I sing! Send me in, please. I beg of you." ~ Dianna Agron
I find Mormons adorable. I love Disneyland and old musicals, and, to me, Mormonism fits right in with all of that. ~ Trey Parker
That was my intention, was to have it be from the perspective of my high-school-aged self, and to try and emulate the music that I listened to at that time. So to write essentially like a pop-punk song about musicals. I wanted the dichotomy of the tone of the music with the lyrics and my singing voice. ~ Laura Benanti
I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals. ~ Missi Pyle
I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing. ~ Lesley Nicol
My acting started with musicals in elementary school, so singing is something I've always done, never done professionally - so you're not going to find me on "The Voice" or anything - but it is something that I have a lot of fun doing, and can do well enough to keep up with people in shows. ~ Clayton Snyder
I loved doing school musicals [as a kid], I even started at an early age to write little plays for the school to perform. I was not just keen on that, it was during that time, during the school period then from an early age, that I began to dream about acting. ~ George Ogilvie
Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals. ~ Laura Benanti
I think there's a perception of me that I'm the dark lord of all that is scary and gory, but that's completely false. I love musicals. My house is very bright and lit. It's not what people would really expect from a Saw director, but I think that's what allows me to do the things that I do. ~ Darren Lynn Bousman
I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up. ~ Kirsten Nelson
I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals. ~ Vanessa Paradis
I love plays that have musical moments. I'm not a big fan of musicals per se, but I love straight plays that have musical edges to them. I don't know if I will ever be able to structure a musical, but 'Finer Noble Gases' is as close as I've gotten. ~ Adam Rapp
I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing. ~ Madonna Ciccone
I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals. ~ Jennifer Lopez
In the '20s and '30s, there were these musicals either set on college campuses or based on classical stories, so any of the Rodgers and Hart musicals certainly influenced me. I was definitely influenced by any of the 'Porgy' songs; I was influenced by 'American Pie.' ~ Douglas Carter Beane
I always admired Hugh Jackman as an actor in movies but also in theatre because I'm a big fan of Broadway musicals. ~ Tao Okamoto
I haven't said it yet, but it seemed implied, that cinema for me was the American one, current Hollywood productions. "My" period goes roughly from The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (Henry Hathaway, 1935) with Gary Cooper and Mutiny on the Bounty (Frank Lloyd, 1935) with Charles Laughton and Clark Gable, to the death of Jean Harlow (which I relived many years later like the death of Marilyn Monroe, in an era more aware of the neurotic power of every symbol), with lots of comedies in between, the mystery-romances with Myrna Loy and William Powell and the dog Asta, the musicals of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the crime pictures of Chinese detective Charlie Chan and the horror films of Boris Karloff. I didn't remember the names of the directors as well as the names of the actors, except for a few like Frank Capra, Gregory La Cava, and Frank Borzage, who represented the poor rather than the millionaires, usually with Spencer Tracy: they were the good-natured directors from the Roosevelt era; I learned this later; back then I consumed everything without distinguishing between them too much. American cinema in that moment consisted of a collection of actors' faces without equal before or after (at least it seemed that way to me) and the adventures were simple mechanisms to get these faces together (sweethearts, character actors, extras) in different combinations. ~ Italo Calvino
I did musicals from about age 10 to 18. ~ Alison Lohman
One of things I'd love to do one day is a Shakespeare with Trevor Nunn. I've done musicals with him, but never Shakespeare. There's no one better. ~ Hugh Jackman
I wasn't planning on doing musicals, but that's how I started. ~ Cory Michael Smith
I've always loved music. I wasn't one of those "composing since I was five" kids, but I was definitely involved with music since I was that age - singing in musicals and taking lessons. Lots of lessons! Singing, dancing, acting, drums set. My mom pretty much had a full-time job carting me all over town six days a week. ~ Jason Graves
I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn't go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see 'Tommy' when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it. ~ Amy Adams
While many of my musicals deal with big themes and ideas, I don't intentionally go looking to write shows like that. A story will interest me, and then somewhere along the way, I discover that hidden inside are these epic themes. ~ Stephen Schwartz
I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway. ~ Mark Indelicato
I love musicals and music driven films, and my first instinct is to tell the story. And when music is a big part of the action I can literally make the story sing! ~ David Raiklen
In any regime there is always something that one should agree with, and in Shades there are quite a few notions that, on the face of it, seem like a good thing - the strict adherence to good manners, the fact that learning a musical instrument is compulsory, as is dancing, performing musicals and an hour's Useful Work every day in order to properly discharge your duty to society. But a cage is still a cage, irrespective of the nature of its bars. ~ Jasper Fforde
I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy. ~ Oscar Isaac
[NINA]
When I was a child I stayed wide awake
Climbed to the highest place
On every fire escape
Restless to climb
I got every scholarship
Saved every dollar
The first to go to college
How do I tell them why
I'm coming back home? ~ Lin-Manuel Miranda
I would love to do more theatre, musicals ... everything. ~ Chris Pine
I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making. ~ Maggie Grace
The succession of cheerful, period musicals I made, plus Oscar Levant's widely publicized remark about my virginity, contributed to what has been called my "image", which is a word that baffles me. There never was any intent on my part either in my acting or in my private life to create any such thing as an image. ~ Doris Day
I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte. ~ Cristin Milioti
I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that. ~ Josh Young
I love singing! I was a musical theater girl in high school. We were always singing and dancing around, and just doing little community theaters and high school musicals. Then, when I got to NYU, I focused more on drama. ~ Katie Lowes
I think people like musicals. And when done with a modern comedic sensibility, musical comedy can be the most efficient delivery of both storytelling and jokes. ~ Rachel Bloom
I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song. ~ Jason Moore
I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded ... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals ... or has just given me nightmares! ~ Jake Epstein
For a production that suggests a mysterious dreamscape, I have a particular affection for the Vivian Beaumont Theater. It is the largest dramatic space available in New York City in terms of plays, although musicals have been done there very successfully as well. ~ Jack O'Brien
Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. ~ Chandra Wilson
'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music. ~ Jason Moore
I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something. ~ Hugh Jackman
My dad was a jazz fan and he used to have lots of old 78s, so I grew up with big jazz bands and the likes of Duke Ellington and Count Basie - although I really liked show tunes from those big musicals as well. I've always kept my ears open, as it were, when it comes to music. It doesn't matter to me what type of music it is. If I like it, I'll listen to it. ~ Ric Sanders
When I was a young woman, before I moved to New York, working in small, non-Equity theatres in the Midwest, I did a lot of musicals in my early to mid-20s. ~ Jayne Houdyshell
I started training for musicals since I was a boy. ~ David Hasselhoff
I tap danced for ten years before I began to understand people don't make musicals anymore. All I wanted to do was be at MGM working for Arthur Freed or Gene Kelly or Vincent Minelli. Historical and geographical constraints made this impossible. Slowly but surely the pen became mightier than the double pick-up time step with shuffle. ~ Zadie Smith
So basically," Calvin said, "this is My Fair Lady in a walk-up on West Twenty-Second Street with no music and no Julie Andrews. ~ David Pratt
The only genre I have any problem with is musicals, but that's just my own tastes it's nothing to do with the films. ~ Ben Wheatley
Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals. ~ Lloyd Kaufman
I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals. ~ David Bowie
When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs! ~ Tom Wopat
It's funny because I went to a predominantly white school, but for some reason they always picked the musicals that were supposed to be done by totally black casts. ~ Dane DeHaan
I think with musicals, it's much more part of the script. They don't want songs that would stop the show; they need songs that keep the plot moving. ~ Adam Schlesinger
I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school. ~ Sharon Van Etten
In his musicals with Garland, Rooney was the sparkplug for prodigious entrepreneurship - that era's predecessor of the garage band, but with Gershwin tunes and an all-star cast. ~ Richard Corliss
The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It's a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals. ~ Ellen DeGeneres
When I was about 6, my cousin was very active in a Filipino repertory company, doing musicals and plays. Her aunt was one of the founders of the company, and she told my mom that there were these auditions for 'The King and I,' and that they needed kids. I auditioned, got in and the love affair started from there and just kept going. ~ Lea Salonga
I prefer musicals, because I am the best dancer who ever lived. The best plies, the best sashays, and by far the best-smelling Capezios. ~ Adam Sandler
I began my career performing in plays and musicals in New York, but by the mid-'80s, opportunities in Hollywood beckoned and I made the move to Los Angeles. It was a good decision. Work took off, but most important, I met my family out there - my husband, Bill, and the children we would adopt: Elijah, Mae-Mae, and Aron. ~ Christine Ebersole
I'd done stage musicals for quite a few years, starting with 'Grease' in Auckland. ~ Russell Crowe
I'm a pretty big dork. It's crazy. I'm one of those people who grew up with all kinds of musicals, but I was right at that age where 'Rent' was a big deal for me and for my friends. ~ Anna Kendrick
There is already huge public interest in stage musicals. ~ Tim Rice
I hate musicals. There, I said it. ~ Aaron Paul
This sounds geeky, but when I run, I like to listen to musicals like 'Les Miserables.' The soundtracks are 75 minutes or longer, and I keep going until the story ends, so it feels like a good workout. ~ Lindy Booth
I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative. ~ Christopher Egan
I started off when I was seven years old doing musicals. I was in 'Les Miserables' and 'The Sound of Music,' and my mum's an actress. My parents divorced when I was young, and when she couldn't find a babysitter, I was in the wings, sleeping. ~ Alicia Vikander
I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s. ~ Matthew Bourne
All the more a cheesy musical seems fake, so it requires a level of honesty to be injected or an acknowledgement of that which is fake and fun about musicals, and it isn't necessarily escapist. Like there are great musicals like Once, which feel very almost like a mumblecore musical. I love Once. It's great. ~ James Ponsoldt
I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive. ~ Colin Meloy
I did all the musicals in high school, and I loved it. And then I got to theater school at college, and was like, "No, I'm a serious actor. I want to do Shakespeare. I want to do classical theater." I took myself very seriously. ~ Timothy Omundson
Musicals are plays, but the last collaborator is your audience, so you've got to wait 'til the last collaborator comes in before you can complete the collaboration. ~ Stephen Sondheim
When I tried to play characters that strayed from who I am it ended in disaster. People didn't expect me in comedies or musicals. ~ Sylvester Stallone
My taste is very eclectic. I love musicals, but I also love the classics. I've seen some fantastic productions. I was in a musical for 600 performances in Australia that I first saw in New York. ~ Jacki Weaver
I'd been out of the movies for years, I had had a wonderful stage career, yes, in musicals and so on, but you don't really make any money in the theater. ~ Angela Lansbury