West Side Story Quotes

• I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing 'Maria' from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

  Adam Sandler

  Mom, Mother, Sleep

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• I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

  Vanessa Hudgens

  Thinking, Idols, Play

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• I was miserable in West Side Story. They really miscast me. I came from the Midwest; what they really needed was a guy that was street smart. The first time I saw the movie, I had to walk out. I looked like the biggest fruit that ever walked on to film. My character was so weak.

  Richard Beymer

  Smart, Character, Guy

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• Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Marilyn French

  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

  Marilyn French (2013). “A Season in Hell: A Memoir”, p.245, Open Road Media

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• Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Frank Bruno

  I Love You, Romantic, Break Up

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• Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Ted Shackelford

  I Love You, Romantic, Short Love

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• Along with its enchanting and exquisite melodies, West Side Story has attitude and a tremendous amount of frenetic energy. It's emotional, theatrical and technical. It's everything.

  Steve Vai

  Attitude, Emotional, Energy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My dream roles since I was very young were Tony in West Side Story and Pippin. But, now I leave that for the youngsters.

  Hugh Panaro

  Dream, Roles, Stories

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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• The Tonys ignored West Side Story. The Tonys ignored Gypsy. It's a kind of public humiliation.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Stories, West, Sides

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• From the American retelling of Romeo and Juliet in West Side Story to the Japanese adaptation of King Lear in Ran, Shakespeare's cultural influence is virtually limitless.

  Gordon Smith

  Kings, Stories, West

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• In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

  John Lahr

  Goodbye, Sweet, Dark

  "Can’t Stop the Beat" by John Lahr, www.newyorker.com. October 26, 2009.

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• Like the tail fins on fifties American cars or the parabolic shapes of Populuxe furniture, 'West Side Story' incarnates the dream of momentum in the golden age of the twentieth century.

  John Lahr

  Dream, Car, Age

  "Turf Wars". www.newyorker.com. March 30, 2009.

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• I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

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• We would also go to musicals. So Singing In the Rain, On the Town, and West Side Story. Especially West Side Story because played that a lot before VCRs, so that would be something that would be a big deal if it came on, you caught it. So that really started, my family was not in show business at all but really loved that kind of thing.

  Marisa Tomei

  Rain, Vcr, Singing

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• My brother became so enamored with that film [West Side Story], that he started taking tap-dancing lessons, and I followed him and started tap dancing, and my mother and father started tap dancing - I was in a class with my family, tap dancing!

  Marisa Tomei

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Source: www.scene-stealers.com

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• I couldn't live without the genius of Stephen Sondheim, be it not just West Side Story,but Follies,Company,Sweeney Todd,Passion.You can go on and on.

  Cornel West

  Passion, West, Sides

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• In many ways, I think I'm a good person for it. I mean, I'm not a musical theater dude. Or rather, I don't watch everything, and love everything, and have every album. The ones that I love - like I've seen The Wizard of Oz a hundred times. West Side Story I love. I love Singing in the Rain, I love White Christmas. I love the Dennis Potter ones like Singing Detective and Pennies from Heaven. I love Sondheim.

  James Ponsoldt

  Rain, Mean, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• West Side Story was terribly important because of the style of the dancing and the gangs of New York.

  Vincente Minnelli

  New York, Dancing, Style

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was about seven or eight years old when I first heard West Side Story, and it had a huge impact on me. If you look at the elements of that record, it contains many of the things I enjoy doing today.

  Steve Vai

  Impact, Eight, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd love to be able to play all different roles, whether it's Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.

  Lea Michele

  Play, Forever, Different

  FaceBook post by Lea Michele from Oct 16, 2011

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• I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

  Sara Paxton

  Grease, Musical, Stories

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• Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

  John Lithgow

  Looks, Stories, West

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