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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
Musicals are my favorite. I'm a musical theater buff. -- Rutina Wesley
Musicals are famous for being in a constant state of flux. -- Tim Curry
Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner. -- George Jean Nathan
Musicals and horror movies are my two favorite genres because they're about extremes. -- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe. -- Ezra Koenig
Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe... -- Ezra Koenig
Musicals are finally kind of coming back to a degree, perhaps out of a sense of nostalgia. -- Carmen Ejogo
You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic. -- Harold Prince
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances. -- Peter Stone
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
Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it... It's none of it simple. -- Harold Prince
Musicals and horror films can be very non-verbal and very pure cinema with movement. The camera is justified in being a character. It can really move and tell a story, and literally direct you to look here or there. -- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway. -- Mark Indelicato
But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don't see them anymore. -- Dick Van Dyke
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
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
Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too. -- Lisa Randall
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. -- John Lithgow
The musicals had a good, happy feeling, saying that the world is a better place. They say it's not reality, but who cares? There's too much reality these days. -- Shirley Jones
I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitely many musicals that I enjoy. 'Hair' and 'Rent' might be my favorites. -- Sebastian Stan
I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume. -- Mindy Kaling
I don't have that kind of voice, the big baritone or rousing tenor sound. My wheelhouse was in the frothier pieces. So my appreciation for those older musicals and revivals grew. -- Jesse Tyler Ferguson
I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did. -- Mickey Rooney
Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money. -- Stephen Sondheim
You have to understand the medium you're writing for. People jump into writing musicals without realizing how complicated they are. Knowing one form doesn't necessarily mean you know the other. You have to be comfortable with it. -- Jason Robert Brown
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
I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story. -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
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 love fantasy. I love horror. I love musicals. Whatever doesn't really happen in life is what I'm interested in. As a way of commenting on everything that does happen in life, because ultimately the only thing I'm really interested in is people. -- Joss Whedon
I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world. -- Sharon Stone
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
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
I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too. I was in 'Nowhere Boy.' I played Paul McCartney. That was kind of musical - we did songs in that. -- Thomas Sangster
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? I think I don't really think too much about it. I am a bit shy socially, yeah, I admit that. -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
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
I remember my choir teacher in high school told me, 'When in doubt, sing loud.' I'm a terrible singer, but I always auditioned for the musicals, and would get cast in them because I really would just put it all out there. That was really good advice, and I think it works for everything, not just acting. -- Judy Greer
My view is that musicals are love stories with great final scenes. It's just that simple. Musicals are also conflicts between two worlds. And by those criteria, 'The Color Purple' is actually exactly the kind of story that makes for a great musical. Yes, it's got hard stuff in it, but so does 'Les Miserables' and 'Phantom of the Opera.' -- Marsha Norman
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
I'm not really into musicals. -- Christian Bale
I started out doing musicals. -- Zooey Deschanel
I hate musicals, especially film musicals. -- Santigold
I love Gershwin. I love musicals. -- Gloria Estefan
I love musicals and I love Broadway. -- Ariana Grande
I like musicals and I love music. -- Wayne Rooney
I only know how to write musicals. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
What musicals need is a new me. -- Cameron Mackintosh
I would like to do some musicals. -- Andy Lau
Being known for musicals is a great thing. -- Zac Efron
I like musicals that look more like plays. -- Alex Timbers
I've grown to really love musicals, you know? -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals. -- Mark Gatiss
I also loved musicals because I was a dancer. -- Donna Mills
Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals. -- Lloyd Kaufman
In college, I started out doing musicals and Shakespeare -- Ray Liotta
My mother would only let us go to the musicals. -- Bette Midler
I started training for musicals since I was a boy. -- David Hasselhoff
I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals. -- Norm MacDonald
I mean, I've done musicals, but it's not my best thing. -- Lesley Nicol
There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals. -- Julie Harris
I love musicals. I love horror movies and I love art movies. -- Jason Blum
I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals. -- Marsha Norman
I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes. -- Corbin Bleu
Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. -- Chandra Wilson
But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects. -- Vincente Minnelli
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. -- Wallace Shawn
I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid. -- Sara Bareilles
Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals. -- Laura Benanti
I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical. -- Scarlett Johansson
I loved musicals, love them still. But also, I'm really inspired by comedy music. -- Rachel Bloom
I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. -- Julie Andrews
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As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals. -- Graydon Carter
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. -- Ian Mckellen
I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth. -- Cary Grant
Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it. -- Margaret Atwood
I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals. -- Julie Harris
I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up. -- Kirsten Nelson
I love musicals and I'm happy they are coming back because I'd love to do more. -- Beyonce Knowles
Well, the musicals give emphasis to love, longing, melancholy, sadness. All of that is always there. -- Ismail Merchant
Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch. -- Richard Schiff
I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape. -- Julie Taymor
Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music. -- Jason Moore
And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge. -- Andrea Martin
I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals. -- David Bowie
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. -- Paul Rudnick
Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand? -- Julian Ovenden
Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music. -- Pedro Almodovar
I started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs. -- Lindsay Hartley
I could sing in English before I could understand it because I phonetically learned it from the musicals. -- Vanessa Paradis
I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful. -- John Woo
I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium. -- James Corden
I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years. -- Elaine Paige
I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic. -- Damien Chazelle
I find Mormons adorable. I love Disneyland and old musicals, and, to me, Mormonism fits right in with all of that. -- Trey Parker
I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions. -- Lindsay Hartley
I'm thrilled in a way because musicals should be preserved. It's mostly unique to America, and they give us so much joy. -- Julie Andrews
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows. -- Marvin Hamlisch
What's wrong with musicals now is all the gifted men who've died of AIDS-who would otherwise be here today creating great theater. -- Madeline Kahn
I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals. -- Jennifer Lopez
I don't think theater is dying, and musicals are a great American art form. We've got apple pie, jazz and musical theater. -- Laura Benanti
I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.' -- Lindsay Hartley
I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something. -- Hugh Jackman
In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that. -- John Mellencamp
I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals. -- Alexander Hanson
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
When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music. -- Queen Latifah
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
New start or not, there was a line to be drawn, and that line was singing musicals to yourself as serious psychological motivation. -- Maureen Johnson
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 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
I had friends who only listened to hip-hop. I had friends who only listened to musicals, and I stood proudly in the middle. -- Lin-Manuel Miranda
Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun. -- Josh Radnor
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 was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive. -- Marvin Hamlisch
I'm a fan of musicals from great masters, and I was able to have an opportunity to express myself in musical numbers with Glee. -- Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
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
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me. -- Stephen Sondheim
The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals. -- Laurie Anderson
The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants. -- Rob Marshall

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