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Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.
Acting on stage is still my favorite thing to do. And everyone who's been in musicals knows that there is nothing more fun.
I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
I love going to see musicals. That was one of the major reasons why losing the chance to produce 'La La Land' was so painful.
I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.
You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.
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 love musicals, and I grew up with them, but the first time I thought I could really do this was when I saw 'In the Heights.'
I've been doing musicals since forever. Actually, I was focused on singing and becoming a singer until I landed on 'Passions.'
'You Can't Take It With You' has eighteen people onstage at one point. Musicals entail a larger collaboration, and I love that.
The X Factor' - I watch it because I'm always searching for talent to use in my musicals, so they do all the groundwork for me.
I didn't grow up listening to musicals. I sang coritos or Spanish spiritual songs and was raised on gospel singer Kirk Franklin.
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.
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.
I loved musicals because I felt like breaking out in song makes so much sense to me because it's the stakes of how you feel inside!
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've done three Broadway musicals and tons of concerts and all kinds of things, but nobody knows that except the people in New York.
Both of my mom's parents were music teachers, so I got a lot of knowledge about everything from classical music to jazz to musicals.
A villain number is a very valuable thing to have, but if you look at most musicals, one way or another there's an antagonist number.
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals.
When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.
Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component.
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.
I grew up in musicals, and if you looked like me and sounded like me, you were the character; you were never at the center of the story.
I've got quite a low voice, so it's not your typical musical theater voice, but I do love musicals; they're a very different experience.
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.
Musicals are made of several climaxes that keep growing and growing; when you think it's over, it still continues growing up in plateaus.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There are good musicals that came from movies, like 'Shrek' and 'Legally Blonde!' But, um... they should never mess with 'The Hunger Games.'
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances.
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.
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.
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 are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.
'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'
My best memories growing up are of putting on musicals with my mom and dad, Both of them are real hams; it was like vaudeville in East Hampton.
I would love to do Broadway. That was my original aim, when I first started acting when I was 13. I wanted to do stage; I wanted to do musicals.
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.
I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
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.
What I've always liked as an actor is to do a lot of different kinds of things. I've done musicals, stage, TV and lots of different styles of work.
I'm not going to be labeled a black filmmaker. I am not here to just tell black stories. I'm here to tell all kinds of stories, musicals and dramas.
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.
Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure form of emotional expression.
Seth MacFarlane, he's kind of an entertainment Everyman. He loves musicals, he loves joke-driven comedies, and animated stuff. He likes comedy-comedy.