Broadway Quotes

Broadway has always been a dream of mine.

My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there.

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.

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

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

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

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

I did the Broadway album unfortunately in a year when there were no hits.

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.

Broadway is a tough, tough arena for singing.

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.

Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.

The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

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.

I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

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

It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway.

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

So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.

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

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot.

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.

What a glorious garden of wonders the lights of Broadway would be to anyone lucky enough to be unable to read.

I believe we have to bring Broadway a little Latino flair. We have to keep it alive.

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 would love to be on Broadway!

I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards.

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

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

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

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

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

I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.

My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.

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

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.

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

You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.

It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.

I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.