Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.
Quotes to Explore
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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Since childhood I've always had a tendency to lean towards melancholy. My sisters suffer from it too, so maybe it's a genetic thing. But none of us has ever been on medication.
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I hate rats. I had a pet rat to try and overcome it. I even gave him mouth-to mouth resuscitation when he had a heart attack. But I couldn't conquer it.
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I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.
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The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with, was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music, for me, is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.
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You could have the bases loaded, and you bring up the best pinch-hitter in the world to pinch hit, he hits into a double play, and then all of a sudden: 'How could you do that?'
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For years I thought my assignment or the Church's assignment was to articulate the Gospel and nothing more. Now I believe that if we don't support the verbal expression of the Gospel with physical demonstration of compassion, we are not imitating Jesus.
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Titles are important; I have them before I have books that belong to them. I have last chapters in my mind before I see first chapters, too. I usually begin with endings, with a sense of aftermath, of dust settling, of epilogue.
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'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it.
