Broadway famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.
-- Aaron Tveit -
Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway! That would be perfect.
-- Adrianne Palicki -
When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.
-- Aida Turturro -
I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.
-- Alice Barrett -
I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.
-- Amy Adams -
At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.
-- Andrew Rannells -
A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.
-- Ansel Elgort -
Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.
-- Ashanti -
When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
-- Ashley Tisdale -
I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.
-- Babyface -
I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.
-- Bea Arthur -
The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
-- Bernadette Peters -
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.
-- Bernadette Peters -
I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.
-- Berry Gordy -
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
-- Bette Davis -
The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
-- Blair Underwood -
The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.
-- Brooke Langton -
I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.
-- Brooke Shields -
I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.
-- Bryan Batt -
I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.
-- Chandra Wilson -
I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!
-- Clay Aiken -
You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.
-- Colin Quinn -
I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in Hairspray.
-- Corey Reynolds -
I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
-- Damian McGinty -
When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.
-- Dan Fogler -
You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.
-- Danny Kaye -
Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.
-- Dave Brubeck -
I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.
-- David Copperfield -
My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.
-- David Hasselhoff -
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
-- Deborah Kass -
My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.
-- Dennis Christopher -
Id like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change peoples lives.
-- Derek Hough -
When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.
-- Dianne Wiest -
I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.
-- Dick Van Dyke -
I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
-- Dick Van Patten -
Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.
-- Dom DeLuise -
I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.
-- Don Knotts -
I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do
-- Ednita Nazario -
There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
-- Elia Kazan -
Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.
-- Ethel Merman -
I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals
-- Ethel Merman -
I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.
-- Floyd Dell -
I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay.
-- Frank Oz -
My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.
-- Gene Hackman -
It became apparent to me really fast that I wasn't going to be able to make a living and pay my bills playing on Broadway.
-- Gretchen Wilson -
I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.
-- Ian Mckellen -
I began modeling in N.Y. and doing commercials. That led to regional theatre and then Broadway and then movies.
-- Ian Ziering -
Ah walk doon Hammersmith Broadway, London seeming strange and alien, after only a three-month absence, as familiar places do when you’ve been away. It’s as if everything is a copy of what you knew before, similar, yet somehow lacking in its usual qualities, a bit like the wey things are in a dream. They say you have to live in a place to know it, but you have to come fresh tae really see it.
-- Irvine Welsh -
I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know.
-- James Earl Jones -
It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway.
-- James Gleason -
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
-- Jamie Farr -
Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.
-- Janel Parrish -
I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.
-- Jenna Ushkowitz -
I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.
-- Jennifer Garner -
I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.
-- Jennifer Garner -
Broadway has always been a dream of mine.
-- Jessica Chastain -
The Beatles have a deeper appreciation of all music. There's a humor, there's a Broadway sense, and later on, the Indian stuff came in. The Beatles were always taking in stuff and filtering stuff out to us. There's such a classical sense of arrangement, and their harmonies-what the Beatles did vocally is amazing.
-- Jimmy Vivino -
I grew up with Cinderella. So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.
-- Jodi Benson -
The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.
-- John Larroquette -
Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I've had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He's from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.
-- John Travolta -
Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.
-- Julia Barr -
I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
-- Kara Lindsay -
I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'
-- Kate Mara -
I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
-- Kate Smith -
Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times
-- Katha Pollitt -
Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.
-- Katharine McPhee -
I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.
-- Katherine Jenkins -
I always felt like Broadway was not for me - in terms of ticket price, in terms of what was on there. I never saw myself reflected in the mirror of the Great White Way.
-- Katori Hall -
It's always a thrill to walk through a Broadway stage door.
-- Kelly Bishop -
I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
-- Lance Bass -
I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
-- Lara Pulver -
The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.
-- Laurie Anderson -
I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.
-- Lea Michele -
When I wasn't working on Broadway, I worked in a Bat Mitzvah dress shop and was the Cinderella of the shop - always cleaning and vacuuming!
-- Lea Michele -
I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.
-- Lea Michele -
I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.
-- Les Baxter -
People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.
-- Loretta Devine -
I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'
-- Lynn Nottage -
When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.
-- Maggie Grace -
I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.
-- Mark Ruffalo -
The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.
-- Martin McDonagh -
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.
-- Marvin Hamlisch -
I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.
-- Marvin Hamlisch -
Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was only because he was laughing so hard.
-- Meg Cabot -
I am still so proud to have been a part of something that introduced theater to so many people who weren't exposed to it before. We took Broadway and put it in peoples' living rooms once a week for two seasons. People still come up to me in the street and say, 'I never went to theater before I saw "Smash.'" That's the greatest compliment.
-- Megan Hilty -
Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
-- Mel Torme -
Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days.
-- Merritt Wever -
In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.
-- Michael Musto -
I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.
-- Michelle Branch -
I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
Ive been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show Billy Elliot there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
-- Olesya Rulin
