Top 205 Musicals Quotes

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.

I’d always done musicals, and so living in the world of straight plays and working with off-Broadway actors and living in that community was a completely life-changing experience.

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.

In school, I always sang in choirs. In fact, I used to do a lot of musicals in the youth theatre that I was a member of between the ages of 16 and 18.

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?

I was obsessed with X-Men as a kid, and I would have to go and play every last one of them. My sister was obsessed with Barbies. So we would create these X-Men-Barbie combos and perform weird musicals where they interacted with each other.

‘The Light in the Piazza’ is one of my top three musicals of all time.

Now that I’m in my late 40s, I’m trying to make up for a little bit of lost musicals time.

I am under no illusion that I will ever be the greatest opera composer in the world, with Wagner and Verdi and Strauss before me. I think my work could fit very nicely into musicals, though.

I love musicals; I just couldn’t book one to save my life.

I did all the musicals in my high school; I was in a pop group signed to Cash Money Records in college. Music has always been a really big part of my life.

I’ve done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in ‘Glee,’ and I was a Laker girl for three months.

I can’t sing, so… I don’t know if I will be doing any musicals.

I would like to do some musicals.

There have been several television movies, ‘Carrie 2,’ two musicals! I remember thinking, the first time there was a musical on Broadway, ‘Oh my gosh! The people who ordinarily go to the theaters, that’s not really the audience.’

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

When I was 17, I worked at a bagel shop – I ate so many! I was also in all the school musicals, which we rehearsed for during the afternoons.

Musicals weren’t on my radar.

I would love to do more theatre, musicals… everything.

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.

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.

I was excited to get the opportunity to sing something in a movie ’cause I love musicals and I would love to be able to do more movie musicals, in the future.

That’s what I think musicals will come to. No backstage stories, nothing of that sort.

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

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

I did musicals from about age 10 to 18.

I think Tamil films will soon go the Hollywood way. There will be separate full-length humour-driven scripts, just like how thrillers and musicals are becoming successful genres.

My dad listened to a lot of James Taylor when I was growing up. We had a couple of his cassettes in the car, and we’d go on a lot of long family car trips. It was either strange musicals or James Taylor – or Whitney Houston. It was quite the combination there.

You go to a musical; you are deafened by them, with everything blown up. I remember musicals when they didn’t use microphones.

I did start out as an actor. I went to Northwestern; I did musicals. I did plays.

But I wish they would make a musical of some kind. I miss musicals so much. You don’t see them anymore.

It’s the basic rule of musicals: Characters sing when their emotions become so intense that they can’t do anything else.

The worst thing when you’re working is to say, ‘I have a question,’ and the other person goes, ‘No! This is what it is.’ That kind of rigidity is very challenging because musicals are constantly mutating.

I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching – great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.

It’s expensive to produce musicals on television.

I like musicals that are sometimes comedic, but I haven’t even seen the Monty Python musical, and I’m a huge Monty Python fan.

I was in musicals. and I was in the choir when I was younger. Before I started writing my own songs, I thought I wanted to be on Broadway, but it was nothing I ever really pursued.

When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.

The musicals that I love on stage are generally meant for the stage.

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 because they can’t move anymore, moving is not enough to express – it’s this beautiful thing.

Musicals spring forth from minstrelsy, vaudeville, melodramas; it was all these things combined to create the form.

When I was young and growing up in New York, my parents took me to children’s theater quite often – elaborate presentations of ‘Goldilocks’ and ‘Rapunzel’ for Upper East Side kids. As I grew older, they took me to adult theater, mostly musicals.

My mom raised a self-aware kid. I wasn’t like the typical alpha male. I wasn’t afraid to sing, you know? I wasn’t afraid to be in musicals.

It’s exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it’s not like, ‘Oh, I’ll do a musical with a deaf person.’

So way back, Jonathan and I were – we were entertainers as kids. We were actors; we did theater, musicals; we ended up getting into commercials and some TV spots. Actually, one of our jobs, we were clowns.

Growing up, I was always in my high school musicals and everything, but I kind of stopped doing all that when I finished school and acting became my main priority.

I’d been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home.

I grew up in a time when the only musicals were animated musicals because nobody wanted to see people to break into song.

Some I want to see just for curiosity. But no, I don’t really rush out to see a bunch of musicals.

Listen – I like musicals. Even when they’re bad, there’s a couple of dancers I can watch.

I studied at Guildhall and did the acting course, but because I could sing a bit, I kept being cast in musicals.

I’ve always loved singing, and wanted to do musicals. Watching them as a child was what convinced me that I wanted to be a professional.

I do like musicals, but I’m not so well-versed in them. I would rather tell stories that just so happen to have a song in them, like someone has a cabaret number.

I did musicals. It’s funny, because I can hide behind a character and a voice, but when I have to bring myself and my own voice to it, it’s very nerve-wracking.

Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.

Movies, there are moments when you’re writing a song or demoing, a moment in the recording studio. Musicals much more just eat up your life for a certain period of time.

I really like musicals – ‘The Music Man,’ ‘Oklahoma!,’ ‘Li’l Abner,’ ‘Annie Get Your Gun.’

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.’

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

I went to Elon University and studied musical theater. I usually did two musicals a year, but I also did a couple of plays. That was sort of always where I felt the most relaxation.

I only know how to write musicals.

Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.

The musicals on Broadway have not necessarily been true musical theater. I’m speaking generally, of course: I saw ‘Spring Awakening,’ and I was completely inspired by that.

I tend to invest a little more than I should when I do musicals, so it takes a lot out of me and my personal life.

I used to do musicals in college, where I would sing, act and dance.

You see, it took me so long, it was such a struggle, to move myself out of musicals – because I had had a success, nobody wanted to allow me to direct a non-musical picture. It was so hard. And the only way I could get it going was to become a producer myself.