You don't see sick animals in the wild. You don't see lame animals in the wild, and its all because of the predator: the lion, the tiger, the leopard, all the cats.
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.
It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn't reaping the lion's share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.
Funny enough, you know who I used to really like in Lion King? It was Scar.
The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
Have you seen the Broadway version of 'The Lion King?' Go and see it. That's where the future of musical is.
In 'Lion King,' the music is brilliant. The CGI is amazing.
I must have written 15 lyrics for 'The Lion King,' and only five or six were used. Some were scenes that disappeared, some were earlier versions of songs that didn't work, or else the characters changed.
I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.
I was obsessed with 'The Lion King' as a kid, and I really wanted to go work in an animal sanctuary and have my Lara Croft moment.
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
If you look at it, 'The Lion King' is very similar to 'Hamlet.'
My dad is a little bit of a softy. I mean, he, like, cries at 'The Lion King,' and I'm kind of, like, his little girl.
I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'
Iām obsessed with 'Wicked', and Iād love to play Nala in 'The Lion King'. Some of the songs from 'The Lion King' are performed in my native tongue, so when the cast performed an extract from the show in 'Strictly' in the language I grew up with, it made me cry.
I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.