Oz Quotes

'Oz' means strength - and it also means courage.

When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.

I loved 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, too.

When I began 'Wicked', I really thought of it entirely as a one-off, as the English say. There was no intention that there should ever be a follow up, because the subtitle was 'The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West'. She was dead and gone, as the book says, at the end.

You are falling into your old error, Jeeves, of thinking that Gussie is a parrot. Fight against this. I shall add the oz.

Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.

The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.

On a show like 'Oz,' I was wearing Dickies and a cut-off shirt and a gold cross.

If L. Frank Baum had written 'Wicked,' I'd have done. It doesn't appeal to me at all and never did.

One year, my family and I dressed up in the theme of 'Wizard of Oz' for Halloween. We all went as the different characters. I was the Tin Man!

I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.

I loved the world of Oz. I guess as a young man, I was just drawn to fantasy worlds. I liked being transported to alternative realms where a lot of my early imagination was sparked.

The Wicked Witch of the West really scared me as a child.

I don't think there's a part that I've played or something I've written or directed that hasn't smacked of 'The Wizard Of Oz.' It's the film all roads lead to for me.

I did an Off-Broadway show that was a comedy written by Ann Meara. We were like a family, and we did that show for a year. On Oz, I did feel like the cast members were friends and there was a lot of bonding. That said, there was a lot of testosterone. Once again, it was full of really intense theater actors with this writing that was really intricate and subtle.

I don't often do a lot of that kind of research, but when it's something specific like 'Oz' - which I fortunately did not have a lot of experience with - I will. I read 'The Hot House,' about being on the inside at Leavenworth prison.

If London is the Emerald City, then Los Angeles is what exists at the other end of the yellow brick road.

How much cooler was Oz than seeing the little dude behind the curtain?

'The Master' with Joaquin Phoenix puts up a good fight, but my favorite movie of all time is 'The Wizard of Oz.' I just love it. I watched it over and over again as a child, and I think it has all the elements of wonder, and it's a beautiful story.

My generation probably didn't connect with 'The Wiz' the way that other generations did.

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What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.