Top 40 Annie Quotes

Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing ‘Annie Get Your Gun.’

I’ve really enjoyed doing ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ and loved Neil Simon stuff like ‘Chapter Two.’

I think we sublimated our Broadway desires by doing theater in Hollywood – not on stage but by doing the movies of ‘Chicago‘ and ‘Hairspray‘ and also musicals on TV. We did Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s ‘Cinderella‘ and ‘Gypsy‘ and ‘Annie.’ Even ‘Smash‘ was like doing theater.

There are so many remarkable playwrights working right now, that I see everything I can. Annie Baker is a genius, I’ll see anything she writes. The same for Lynn Nottage, Cynthia Hopkins, and Lisa D’Amour. Anything they’ve got going on, I’ll go see.

When I found out that they were doing a revival of ‘Annie,’ I decided to audition just for fun and see how it turned out. So I auditioned, and I got a callback after callback after callback. And I just wanted to be a part of the show; I didn’t care what role.

When I was in Year 10 I saw a girl on ‘X Factor‘ with a really great, huge afro, so I went to the hairdresser‘s to get a weave and achieve the same look. She somehow convinced me to get colored extensions that were way too short, so I ended up looking like ‘Annie.’

It was amazing for me to even perform at the Grammys, but to do so alongside Annie Lennox was a truly incredible honor.

I think I always have Woody Allen in mind whenever I’m creating anything. He’s such a genius, and I think ‘Annie Hall‘ is one of the greatest movies ever written.

I was on my dad‘s tour bus when I was super little. My dad did a tour of ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ when I was really little, and I loved going and seeing him do that.

The thing that ‘Annie’ means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.

But, I swear, they’re turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they’re also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.

We have a shotgun we inherited from my father-in-law, a paranoid Englishman living in Texas. I have a .22 Marlin rifle, similar to the one Annie Oakley had, and my husband has a .357 Magnum pistol. All those are locked up tight, of course. We have a couple of pellet guns that get more use than the real guns.

At times I’ve got a really big ego. But I’ll tell you the best thing about me. I’m some guy‘s dad; I’m some little gal‘s dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie’s husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate‘s father, boy, that’s enough for me to be remembered by. That’s more than enough.

I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18.

I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie ‘Annie.’ Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.

As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand – or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.

Radio 1 has always championed women; take Annie Nightingale, for example. One of my heroes.

After I saw ‘Annie’ on Broadway, I came out of the show crying, because I wanted to be on that stage.

I grew up in New York till I was 5, and I remember going to see ‘Annie’ and some musicals as a kid, and I remember my parents being somewhat okay with us watching ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show,’ which, it boggles my mind that they allowed me to watch it.

Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals – ‘All That Jazz,’ ‘Hair,’ ‘Fame,’ ‘Annie,’ all that stuff – that’s where my little youthful imagination was.

I have this image in my head of me in the house I grew up in, and hearing this incredible music on the television show, going over to it, and there’s Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert, and Annie Ross. It knocked me out of my socks, and I’m still in flight.

It was honestly like ‘Annie.’ One day I was alone in a cold, dark Eastern European orphanage, and then the next day I was in an enchanted, mystical land known as Walmart.

Carol Burnett, who played Miss Hannigan in ‘Annie’, is as funny as it gets.

I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ as a dancing Indian.

I loved films like ‘When Harry Met Sally‘ and ‘Annie Hall,’ but these were very specific, white Manhattan experiences. You don’t see a single person of color anywhere, but somehow these films are universal. As a filmmaker and creator, I was frustrated with that idea.

I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee’s Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book ‘The Emigrants’.

‘Hester Street‘ was my most complete character study, but ‘Annie Hall’ and ‘The Last Detail‘ were also great.

When I was in my early and mid-teens, my style changed constantly. My clothing was inspired by ‘Annie Hall’ for a while, by a yoga teacher, a flower child, a pirate… name it.

I loved playing the part of the feisty Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker.

My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hour movies, but I’ve seen a lot of that stuff since I was young. And then I saw the film ‘Annie,’ and I just wanted to be Annie; I just wanted to be that orphan kid and wanted to sing and dance.

I was offered to take over for Reba in ‘Annie Get Your Gun,’ but it wasn’t where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

I Googled every actor from my favorite film ‘Annie.’ Albert Finney was also from Manchester and he went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art – so I auditioned there, too.

Legendary photographer Annie Leibowitz persuaded us to pose in our underwear. When the magazine hit the stands we were horrified to see the caption ‘Go-Go‘s Put Out.’ Regardless, I was extremely excited to see us at every newsstand on every corner, our faces on the cover of ‘Rolling Stone!’

I love ‘Annie Hall,’ but then I adore ‘Hannah and Her Sisters.’ Dianne Wiest is amazing in ‘Bullets Over Broadway,’ but her in ‘Hannah and Her Sisters,’ I absolutely loved it.

When I first put on the red wig and the red dress, I couldn’t believe it was happening. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is the dress everyone knows ‘Annie’ for, and I’m wearing it.’

The movies that I love and model after, like ‘Annie Hall,’ ‘When Harry Met Sally,’ and in particular for me, ‘Broadcast News,’ are the tone of life, which isn’t a setup punch-line every two minutes.

My maternal grandmother, Annie Sparks, lived with our family during the while I was growing up. When I came home from school, after having made a detour to the kitchen to pour a glass of milk and fix a thick peanut butter sandwich on easy-to-tear white bread, I would go up to her sitting room.

You’d look out and there’d be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.

I tried theatre. I played Miss Hannigan for a short run of Annie at a regional theatre. That was fun. I enjoyed it! I enjoy theatre and have so much respect for theatre actors.

I used to sing with my father’s jazz band and then when I was ten years old a musician friend of his suggested that I try out for the first west coast production of Annie.