1.
The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.
Bernadette Peters
2.
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.
Liza Minnelli
3.
Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.
Julia Barr
4.
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
5.
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
6.
To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.
Leonard Bernstein
7.
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.
Clark Gable
8.
Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.
Rob Corddry
9.
Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
Walter Winchell
10.
The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
Stephen Sondheim
11.
Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.
Ethel Merman
12.
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
13.
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.
David Duchovny
14.
I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked
Cam'ron
15.
You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.
Danny Kaye
16.
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
17.
I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
Mos Def
18.
I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with.
Ozzy Osbourne
19.
I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.
Kate Smith
20.
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
21.
Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.
Taye Diggs
22.
The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.
Brooke Langton
23.
The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.
Audra McDonald
24.
The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
Bette Davis
25.
Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right.
Toni Braxton
26.
Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.
Ashanti
27.
Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.
Horace Silver
28.
Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.
Darren Criss
29.
There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
Elia Kazan
30.
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.
Mae West
31.
There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
33.
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
34.
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
35.
It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway.
James Gleason
36.
I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which is sad really.
Amy Adams
37.
I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.
Babyface
38.
I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.
Dick Van Dyke
40.
I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.
Richard Madden
41.
My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.
David Hasselhoff
43.
I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.
Robin Cousins
44.
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
45.
I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.
Daniel Radcliffe
46.
People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.
Stanley Tucci
47.
I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.
Dick Van Patten
48.
Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.
Hugh Jackman
49.
The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
Seth MacFarlane
50.
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
Jamie Farr