John Lloyd Young famous quotes

When you look at sort of pop stardom now, some of these singers, it seems like the idea of them was created in a marketing meeting, and then they just found someone to sort of fulfill that role.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Found Someone #Ideas #Marketing

But when you get to know a character so well, you start to have insights that you can't show because you're confined to your script of your hit show.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Character #Scripts #Insight

It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Character #Creative #Advice

I've learned to keep my work on the stage or on the screen.
-- John Lloyd Young

#I've Learned #Stage #Screens

I think you couldn't do this role or you couldn't be Frankie Valli himself unless you had a natural falsetto. And I had sort of discovered it by accident as a child or a young adult when you realize you have a special skill that you don't really have any use for you, and you just take it out at parties or to amuse your friends or to annoy your girlfriends.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Girlfriend #Children #Party

I think Frankie Valli did everything right. He kept singing. And you also have to remember, he was confined to a certain society, which was this sort of like - the wrong side of the law kind of society of Italian guys from the streets of Belleville, New Jersey. So he found his way.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Italian #Thinking #Law

It was great to play for a live audience on a stage.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Play #Stage #Audience

It was a surprise to me and a happy accident that it was such a skill [natural falsetto] - a latent skill and that there was a way to exploit it. And it was a key to playing great role Frankie Valli in such a huge show.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Keys #Skills #Roles

I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to see my Broadway performance, but gets a taste for what it might have been like now, because they can see Clint Eastwood's film."
-- John Lloyd Young

#Teenager #Kids #Broadway

I don't have a Jersey dialect. So when I approached the singing, I approached it the same way as an actor I approach a dialect, just as a singer.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Singing #Actors #Dialect

I definitely worked really hard to evoke Frankie Valli, but not do a strict imitation, because I feel that a strict imitation is not as compelling to watch.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Watches #Imitation #Evoke

I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music Man' if there hadn't been a film where he played the part. I just heard how great he was on Broadway way before my time.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Men #Generations #Broadway

I think one of the ways that these young singers got started is that they would end up in clubs. And a lot of them were mafia owned. And so there was almost an unspoken kind of mafia sponsorship, which is just a very interesting part of that area's music history.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Thinking #Interesting #Mafia

I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Kids #Musical #Hollywood

I approach the singing kind of like with dialect thoughts in my mind. I have to sound like this on certain things to give that Frankie Valli flavor.
-- John Lloyd Young

#Giving #Mind #Singing