Broadway Quotes

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

I am persistent about everything I believe in. If there's a film I want to do, a record, a Broadway show - I do it. Everybody can hate it but I will still do it. I am fearless that way.

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

The Broadway schedule is so tough, so relentless there was almost no time to enjoy all the stuff.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.

I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.

Nathan Lane's Bus of Broadway Fun will be leaving shortly.

I'd always wanted to be on Broadway one day, but it seemed like a dream that might be unattainable. This business has a lot of ups and downs and I learned that pretty quickly.

Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

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.

It's always a thrill to walk through a Broadway stage door.

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

I got to see Linda's [Hart] live when it first came on Broadway. I just loved her. I've always been a fan of hers.

I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

My parents were in 'Brigadoon' on Broadway when I was a couple of years old.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through 'Spring Awakening,' which I left in 2008.

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

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!

When I talk to young people who want to go to Broadway or whatever, I say, "The highs are very high and the lows are very low and then there is a lot in between."

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

I think every show I do, whether I am doing eight shows a week of a Broadway show... I think, "that's a show I'll never get back"... I go home at night and I think to myself, "that was my favorite".

All those days of waiting on tables until I could get a role on Broadway, all that time going to school taking lessons, and all those years of being a nobody following a dream-and now here it is.

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

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.

When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows.

I'm an actor. I started as an actor. I started on Broadway doing 'Hair' and Shakespeare in the Park.

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.

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.

One of the things I find very little of in America - and certainly not on Broadway - are plays with political attitudes.

The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

I think I could beat Joe Frazier singing. I was in a Broadway musical called Big Time Buck Wright.

I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.

I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.

What about Broadway? Yes, I'm involved with a new musical based on 'The Adams Family.'

I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

I started my career off replacing Rita Moreno in a Broadway show.

When somebody mentions that I did a play with George C. Scott, I'm like, it can't have happened. What was I doing on a Broadway stage at 11 years old? It's so far in the distance now.

Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.

Ive been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show Billy Elliot there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

It still feels like Hip Hop is in the early '80s on Broadway.

I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but who knows.

A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.

It's a dream for all writers to write for Broadway.