Broadway Quotes

It's probably my favorite part of my whole showbiz experience, is Broadway. The community of Broadway. That feeling that happens every night.

When St Genesius, the patron saint of actors, refused to act in a Roman play that ridiculed Christianity, the legend goes, the producers executed him. It reminds some people of Broadway today.

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

Luckily for me, when I was growing up in high school, I had a band, and I was a singer in the band. I'm less of a legit Broadway singer than I am a pop-rock singer.

This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.

Everyone would like to be on Broadway, cause if a show works, you make a great deal of money and it allows you to write other shows.

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts out of any Broadway musical.

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

When I still lived in Manhattan, people-watching was my hobby, and I spent many Sunday afternoons eating up the scene from a window seat at a Starbucks on Broadway.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.

Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.

On Broadway, only the fire doors separate you from the sidewalk and you're lucky if the sound of a police car doesn't rip the envelope twice a night.

I thought that I'd always just do Broadway, my original plan, but that was derailed.

Broadway is really my life.

A lot of people now don't know I've been on Broadway.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

Performance art is going to be the future. Plays on Broadway are so restricted. But performance art is like haikus, just one line thing. And it's more casual but more interesting.

The play I did on Broadway a couple of seasons ago started out of town and it moved its way into New York because of the experience that we had out of town.

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reasonBringing something we must learnAnd we are led to those who help us most to grow If we let them and we help them in return.

Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don't spend your time on your knees if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean and walk!

You can't forget the past.

And you find some way to surviveAnd you find out you don't have to be happy at all..To be happy you're alive.

I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.

I am who I am and that's it!

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really.