Rachel Tucker Quotes

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

I didn't know a single musical soundtrack, really, growing up. Nobody listened to musicals. That wasn't a thing I did.

I used to sing songs from musicals all the time as a kid.

Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.

When I was growing up, there were so many musicals you could watch. I like the fantasy of musicals and I love music.

My grandmother had always played show tunes from classic musicals at the piano when we were growing up, so that helped me fall in love with Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter, Lerner and Loewe, etc.

I grew up loving musicals. My mom had records of original cast recordings, and one of them was 'She Loves Me.' I wore that thing out singing along to Barbara Cook when I was eight years old.

When I was a kid, I grew up watching musicals.

I grew up on musicals, and I love them so much.

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

My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the songs when I was a kid.

I didn't leave home until 27. I was an only child raised in Philadelphia by my mother and grandmother. My grandmother controlled the stove. She made a lot of potato meals - mashed potato, potato souffle, potato pancakes. When we didn't have electricity, we ate romantically by candlelight.

'Showboat' is the quintessential family show.

I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.

I used to watch a lot of musicals as a kid. Musical movies, not so much musical theater.

I have an amazing family. I was raised in a wonderful mid-west family.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

The only shows I saw as a kid were that holy trinity: 'Les Miz,' 'Cats,' 'Phantom.'

Being from Africa is the best thing that could have ever, ever happened to me. I cannot see it any other way. All of my fundamental principles that were instilled in me in my home, from my childhood, are still with me.

I saw my first two Broadway shows when I was 4 years old, 'The Lion King' and 'Beauty and the Beast,' and after both of them I came home and reenacted the entirety of the shows on my living room table for my family and friends. I started doing that after every show I saw until I actually did my first youth production when I was 5.

Growing up, I was in all the musicals and everything... I'd come home from school and bash out a few Whitney Houston songs.

I was obsessed with 'Jesus Christ Superstar,' and I used to reenact it in my room when no one was home.

You think, 'Musicals, they must always be romantic' - You'd be surprised how few of them historically have ever been romantic.

The thing about movie musicals is that there have been some brilliant ones, but when they're bad, they're really bad - big white elephants.

I'm an obsessive musical theatre person, so some of the most formative albums for me were, you know, the 'Phantom Of The Opera' soundtrack or 'Into The Woods.'