Andrew Lloyd Webber Quotes
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I guess we've had a very close relationship because I don't pretend to know about cinema and I think I do know a bit about theatre but he does, he respected that and so we really just had a collaboration which went completely like this.
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I remember, once I was going through Nice airport with Roger Moore, and these kids came up and asked for our autographs. Afterwards, Roger said, 'It must be very strange for you. I'm an actor, and signing autographs is part of what I do. But you're a public figure who people don't really know.' He was right.
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I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.
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If you look at my career... I couldn't possibly have chosen those subjects if I was thinking, 'That's a great commercial idea.' I'm not aware of a great musical where someone has done that.
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I'm a ladies' man who can never make love. I'm resigned to that.
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The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.
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Negative things, and they were all deliberate and I'm not going to say who they were but I know who they were and it was in the business, and that's not a good sign.
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The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.
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After I had prostate cancer, I had something which was misdiagnosed which led to a load of back operations.
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I guess the thing is that we remained huge friends after the original Phantom movie, when we decided it wouldn't take place and we just saw each other socially over the years so we were friends.
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The moment the doctor said he wanted to do a biopsy, in my heart I thought I'd probably got it. But I also know a lot of people who have also had prostate cancer, so I had a reasonably good idea what to expect.
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I don't know what really makes a great musical or not. In the end, you write it, and you write it because you want to write it.
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I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.
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And it sort of jogged a memory of something that I read at school and I read it, and I thought God this is it. So you never can tell. I could find something this afternoon.
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We felt we had to know something of his back story. I don't think people in the cinema would just accept that he's there. I think we had to learn how he (got there).
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'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.
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I want to get every church in the country on Wi-Fi.
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Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.
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I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.
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The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.
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As a composer at a point where I can absolutely pick and choose what I want to do, I don't want to write about anybody I don't care about.
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Sometimes I get the story wrong, or it's the wrong story, and then things don't work.
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A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.
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I'm not a critic, and I never talk about other people's work.