Broadway Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.'

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

I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle

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

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on 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.

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

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

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

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

Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

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

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

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

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.

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.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

Broadway has always been a dream of mine.

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it.

Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway.

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.

I would love to do Evita or Elphaba in Wicked. But I am more excited to originate a role on Broadway.

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

I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.

My plan has always been to return to Broadway every 50 years.

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do

I don't like Tommy on Broadway at all. I like the music, I'm pleased with Pete's success but I don't like what they've done to it.

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals.

I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.