Broadway Quotes

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The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.

I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together - wham - like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle.

This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.

I get psyched about coming onto a Broadway stage every night. it's very exciting. You develop a kind of gratefulness for it when you spend months trying to get a job.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.

The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer and taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

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.'

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

L.A., its nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle

Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky.

New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.

We can't all come and go by bubble!

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

I've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a very fast-talking broad. I'm used to learning material and words.

Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

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.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

The only thing I have never done is a Broadway play. I'm not sure I have the discipline necessary to do a Broadway play. I know it holds a fascination for certain actors.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.