- Alan Menken: I remember Angela didn't want to record Beauty and The Beast.
- Angela Lansbury: It was a ballad. A very slow ballad and I was afraid of it I said, "I don't think your right in asking me to sing this song I think someone else should sing it." and they said, "no we want you to sing it."
- Alan Menken: What a day in the studio that was. Just not to be believed. And Angela... one take, Beauty and the Beast, one take. Incredible.
- Alan Menken: Beauty and The Beast is the telling of that story and also of a very personal story of Howard Ashman's courage and uh his passing.
- Roy Edward Disney: [about Beauty and The Beast being nominated for Best Picture] To have your peers come and say, "That's a movie" really moved us all in a special way
- Kirk Wise: We were kinda made the acting directors of this film which meant that uh
- Gary Trousdale: We had to act like directors
- Roger Alllers: "To our friend Howard, who gave a mermaid her voice and a beast his soul." I-I don't even know how to expand on it because it's so elegant. So eloquently put.