Steve Whitmire Henson had never spoken to me about Kermit, but he had spoken to Frank Oz about the idea of me doing the character if he became too busy. I felt flattered. – Steve Whitmire
Steve Lukather When the Beatles were on ‘Ed Sullivan,’ life went from black and white to color like in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ – and the irony I’m in the band Toto is not lost on me. – Steve Lukather
Steve Erickson The first books I remember having an impact on me when I was a kid were L. Frank Baum’s ‘Oz’ books, which were much stranger than the movie: at once rather whimsical and really dark. – Steve Erickson
Sian Clifford I’ve wanted to act since I was seven. The year before, I’d been a munchkin in ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and was overcome with terror. The next year I just watched. My sister was in ‘The Little Mermaid’ and I had this deep knowing that I needed to be there on stage, not in the audience. – Sian Clifford
RuPaul The Wizard of Oz’ is my favourite. It explains what life on this planet is about. Although Dorothy reaches Oz, she finds she had what she needed to go back to Kansas all along, but the Good Witch tells her that she had to learn it for herself. All of the answers to the meaning of life are there. – RuPaul
Rose McGowan Someone asked me who I would be if I were a character in the ‘Wizard of Oz.’ I would be the curtain. I would be the one who saw both sides that nobody noticed, that was pretty and there to be used and discarded when they were done. – Rose McGowan
Robin Wright We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We’ll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together. – Robin Wright
Robin Hobb Sometimes I regret that the wonderful children’s stories that have been made into movies were – people no longer read ‘The Wizard of Oz’; they think they know the story. They don’t know anything about all the bits and pieces they had to leave out. – Robin Hobb
Robert Eggers Conan the Barbarian,’ ‘Star Wars,’ ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘The Wizard of Oz’ were my earliest VHS obsessions. – Robert Eggers
Rob Zombie I think probably the scariest thing, as weird as it sounds, was ‘The Wizard of Oz’ and the flying monkeys with the witch. I remember seeing that – it still seems freaky. – Rob Zombie
Nico Tortorella I’ve been acting since I was 8 – I used to play hockey and there was a kids’ theatre down the street from my house and one day I just walked in and signed up for auditions for ‘The Wizard Of Oz.’ – Nico Tortorella
