Andrew Lloyd Webber Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

After I had prostate cancer, I had something which was misdiagnosed which led to a load of back operations.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

A couple of back operations didn't cure anything, but instead, things got worse and worse and worse.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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).

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Well we'd just seen Gerry. I think he wanted somebody who had that authority and was handsome. The thing is, he's a big hunk isn't he? All I can say, if you look at his chat line, or the Phantom website, it's quite worrying. Because the girls really seem to love him.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

It's interesting that the wondrous 'Hamilton,' which I could not be more ecstatic about, has taken a long time to perfect to bring it to Broadway. And it wouldn't have been possible if it was developed in the commercial theatre from the get-go.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I've a rare Turkish swimming cat.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I don't really care very much if I don't think that the critics really understand music.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

We don't have butlers. Obviously we have people who look after the houses, but I try not to run things formally.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

It may sound amazing to people today, but Rodgers and Hammerstein were considered by - how can I put it? - the sort of opinion-making tastemakers and everything to be 'off the scale as sentimental.'

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

You're the luckiest person in the entire world if you know what you really want to do, which I was lucky enough to know when I was very young. And you're the luckiest person in the world if you can then make a living out of it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Musicals are very collaborative. Unless you find somebody who wants to do something with you and has equal commitment, it's not going to work.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I haven't written a score that's going to change the Western world or the musical as we presently know it.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I'm alive. I have my music; I have my children. I am the luckiest man.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

One would be lying if one didn't say that one had melodies that I keep in my back pocket.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

'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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Superstar was made so early in my career I had nothing to do with it at all. The first time I saw it was the opening screening.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I have a very strong will.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

I think Michael Crawford realised, I think we all realised, once we'd gone the route of casting a very young girl, you can't really cast a 65 year old man opposite. Slightly different resonance I think. No, we weren't going to go there. We'd have Jack Nicholson in the lead.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Glenn Slater is my lyricist who, of the new young lyricists coming along, is the most exciting, I think.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Nothing will ever be as big as 'The Phantom of the Opera' for me.

Andrew Lloyd Webber