Richard Rodgers Quotes

I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a better 'Oklahoma!' someplace, a better 'West Side Story.' And I'd like to be mixed up in it.

Richard Rodgers

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• I was doing community theater since I was about nine.

  

  Malcolm-Jamal Warner
  • Community
  • Doing
  • Theater

• I've found that musical theater is my passion.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Passion
  • Found
  • Theater

• When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Love
  • Film

• I can think of no other writer who so thoroughly embodies the Jamesian spirit as Alison Lurie. Like him she can excavate all the possibilities of a theme. Like his, her books seem long, unbroken threads, seamless progressions of effects.

  

  Edmund White
  • Long
  • She
  • Think

• I discovered the theater when I was in the first grade.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • First
  • Theater
  • Grade

• I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • People
  • Know
  • Theater

• I went to the Experimental Theater Wing at NYU and wrote and directed a small amount of stuff there.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Small
  • Theater
  • Wrote

• It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Theater
  • Delight
  • Shock

• I would love to do a live show with dancers and fashion and scenic elements - definitely bring my love of the theater to a concert-style performance.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Fashion
  • Style
  • Performance

• The past is open to all sorts of magical possibilities because it can't be verified. It's as we make it, so it seems to be entirely free. It seems to be completely up for grabs. But of course it's not.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Up
  • Free
  • Past

• I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

  

  Patrick Troughton
  • Thought
  • Possibilities
  • Far

• As actors, if we are truthful to ourselves and we know what we can do and what we cannot do and just go after it, there are possibilities out there. If you don't try, you won't find out if you get them or not.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Know
  • Find
  • Possibilities

• Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Musical

• If you are different, or you have minimum possibilities, you can still succeed. I am living proof of that.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Succeed
  • Possibilities
  • Proof

• I love doing theater. That's where my home is.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Home
  • Doing
  • Theater

• I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Attention
  • Loved
  • Theater

• I'd love to do theater. I've done so many plays in my life. I still think of that as my main thing.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Life
  • Theater
  • Plays

• My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Parents
  • Faith
  • Blessed

• I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Life
  • Artist
  • Theater

• The thing that's interesting about science fiction is that it is always, when it is done well, a lens on our world. And yet it is a metaphor.

  

  Simon Kinberg
  • Science
  • Fiction
  • Metaphor

• Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

  

  Stephen Leacock
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Late

• There's a particularly British wariness of appearing to try too hard. It's somehow distasteful. Everything should come to us seamlessly and, if you have to work at it, you're somehow a loser.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Work
  • Try
  • Loser

• A painter must compensate the natural deficiencies of his art. He has but one sentence to utter, but one moment to exhibit. He cannot, like the poet or historian, expatiate.

  

  Joshua Reynolds
  • Art
  • Painter
  • Compensate

• I would like, if I can, to broaden the possibilities of the musical theater. I think there's a better 'Oklahoma!' someplace, a better 'West Side Story.' And I'd like to be mixed up in it.

  

  Richard Rodgers
  • Theater
  • Possibilities
  • Broaden