Robert Lopez Quotes

I try to find humor in everything I do, because I think all great plays - even great tragedies - have enormous humor in them.

I really hope for more Broadway. I didn't think I was going to love it this much. I would love to stay here.

I had met a young lady who wanted to be in the theater. It was Judy Holliday. She had somehow fallen down the steps of the Village Vanguard, which still exists today.

I have always loved Broadway.

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike.

That said, I'd love to do a musical, either in film or on stage.

Musicals are my favorite. I'm a musical theater buff.

I've memorized 'Hamilton.'

Love me some Tom Kitt; he's awesome in every way.

I like musicals.

I love Jason Robert Brown.

In some ways, comedy and something like a musical do go hand-in-hand.

I love the show tunes; I love all of them.

I love Broadway shows.

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

I have so much respect for what's funny.

The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.

Improv is mostly what I've studied.

The three theater peeps I would love to dine with are Mel Brooks, because he is so funny; Stephen Sondheim, because he is a god-like genius; and Ethel Merman, to compare notes on fabulous belting.