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I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape. — Julie Taymor

Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music. — Pedro Almodovar

Men go to musicals. Women are the ones who buy the tickets for plays. — John O'Hara

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I am the one thing in life I can control. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

I actually was the accompanist for a couple of the musicals I was in growing up. — Kirsten Nelson

You can easily become boxed in and be only identified with musicals or plays. — Jill Paice

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical. — Stephen Sondheim

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals. — Norm MacDonald

I only know how to write musicals. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

I'm not really into musicals. — Christian Bale

Being known for musicals is a great thing. — Zac Efron

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

I love musicals - that's probably one of my most gay traits: that's one of my giveaways! — Russell Tovey

I really like musicals - 'The Music Man,' 'Oklahoma!,' 'Li'l Abner,' 'Annie Get Your Gun.' — Brendon Urie

I would like to have directed Hollywood musicals in the '40s and '50s. — Matthew Bourne

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children. — Paul Rudnick

I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something. — Hugh Jackman

I did musicals from about age 10 to 18. — Alison Lohman

I'll not complain about your boring life, if you just leave me to mine — Elton John

I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals. — Rachel Platten

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

My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the songs when I was a kid. — Katie Finneran

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 hate musicals, especially film musicals. — Santigold

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

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

Musicals are to the theater what wines are to a substantial dinner. — George Jean Nathan

Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals. — Laura Benanti

Musicals are my favorite. I'm a musical theater buff. — Rutina Wesley

I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play. — Ed Westwick

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

I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful. — John Woo

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 started in musicals. My first professional experience was Dorothy in 'The Wizard of Oz' in Palm Springs. — Lindsay Hartley

Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it. — Margaret Atwood

And, I'd never done Tennessee Williams, and I had done Broadway musicals, so it was a challenge. — Andrea Martin

Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch. — Richard Schiff

And you find some way to survive
And you find out you don't have to be happy at all..
To be happy you're alive. — Brian Yorkey

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

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. — Jenna Ushkowitz

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

The great thing about musicals is that they transcend race. — Gurinder Chadha

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 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

Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals. — Lloyd Kaufman

Musicals don't get enough credit for being so surreal. It's like an alternate universe. — Ezra Koenig

No, I've been singing forever. I started out doing musicals. I think that was part of the reason why they gave me the part, because I sang. — Zooey Deschanel

I went on a few auditions for Broadway musicals, and never stopped taking classes, but I didn't take it seriously until I was out of college. — Brendan Dooling

I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals. — Cameron Mackintosh

I like musicals and I love music. — Wayne Rooney

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I imagine death so much it feels more like a memory — Lin-Manuel Miranda

I hate musicals. There, I said it. — Aaron Paul

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

My dream of dreams is to write Broadway musicals. All of this Twitter and TV writing is just a day job. — Megan Amram

I have no doubt that, had I actually been growing up in the 1930s or 1940s, I would have been grooving to turn-of-the-century beats. — Emma Brockes

I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals. — David Bowie

Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all. — Jason Robert Brown

I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic. — Damien Chazelle

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects. — Vincente Minnelli

What musicals need is a new me. — Cameron Mackintosh

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

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

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

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

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

I love musicals and I love Broadway. — Ariana Grande

I like musicals that look more like plays. — Alex Timbers

'Grease' was how I learned that I really liked music and musicals and movies that included music. — Jason Moore

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

I find Mormons adorable. I love Disneyland and old musicals, and, to me, Mormonism fits right in with all of that. — Trey Parker

I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at home. — Rachel Tucker

When I was 10, I knew there was something different about me. Everyone was football-mad, but I just wanted to watch musicals and see art. — Bruno Tonioli

Musicals have clearly gotten more physical. You never saw Ethel Merman doing step aerobics. — Bruce Vilanch

I know how deep in the DNA musicals get because they're deep in my DNA. — Lin-Manuel Miranda

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium. — James Corden

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals. — Tim Rice

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

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 would like to do some musicals. — Andy Lau

I started training for musicals since I was a boy. — David Hasselhoff

Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. — Chandra Wilson

I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing. — Wallace Shawn

I've grown to really love musicals, you know? — Philip Seymour Hoffman

What would Samuel Becket say if he knew that Broadway musicals are all that survived of the theatre world? — Amber Dawn

I was the lead in two musicals, and I took dance classes. — Corbin Bleu

I did ballet, jazz and flamenco from when I was five years old. And my professional career started with dancing in musicals. — Jennifer Lopez

As a father of five, I sometimes feel I've spent a lifetime watching Disney musicals. — Graydon Carter

I don't think today's younger audience ... would even know what 1920s musicals were like. — Julie Andrews

I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me. — Ian McKellen

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

I did a lot of musicals when I first started my career, so I can carry a tune well. — Josh Dallas

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid. — Sara Bareilles

If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita. — Buck Bannister

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

Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals. — Mark Gatiss

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

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals. — Andrew Rannells

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