Broadway Quotes

• I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • People
  • America
  • Career

• I've been in this business 25 years. I've been eking out a living doing Broadway, off-Broadway... I've seen the unemployment line a lot.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Years
  • Lines
  • Unemployment

• That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Dream
  • Play
  • Winning

• I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Rap
  • Midnight
  • Myrtle

• I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.

  

  Lesley Lawson
  • People
  • Friend
  • Boy

• Every day of my life, I wish I was on Broadway. It's my favorite place. It's my heart; it's my soul.

  

  Frankie Grande
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Broadway

• Some of my best friends have written Broadway shows. Allee Willis and Brenda Russell wrote The Color Purple which has been recently revived on Broadway. That to me is such a different hat that you have to wear, but music is music. A Broadway show is something I would love to have the opportunity to do.

  

  Dave Koz
  • Different
  • Opportunity
  • Shows

• 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.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Different
  • Theatre
  • Author

• I love orchestrating music and conducting and being on Broadway.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Broadway
  • Conducting

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

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Film
  • Possibility
  • Endless

• On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Singing
  • New York
  • Lifetime

• Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times. Keep it up, Pat - one day perhaps you'll learn something about how Broadway works, and maybe even understand it.

  

  Scott Rudin
  • Journalist
  • Broadway
  • Infant

• Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever.

  

  Ethan Slater
  • Dream
  • Broadway
  • Debut

• I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Television
  • Stage
  • Auditioning

• When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.

  

  Alex Timbers
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Real

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

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Respect
  • Actors
  • Broadway

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

  

  Jennifer Garner
  • Broadway
  • Hoped
  • Chorus

• There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Money
  • Doubt
  • Organization

• Christopher Walken was probably the most experienced dancing partner I've had in movies, because he has the same background as I do. He's from theatre, Broadway and off-Broadway, and we both shared that.

  

  John Travolta
  • Theatre
  • Partner
  • Dancing

• A lot of my friends were a lot into theater a lot earlier than I was. A lot of my friends were kids who were in The Broadway Kids and the kids auditioning for Gavroche in 'Les Miz.' I was never that kid. I was weaned on Michael Jackson. Not literally, because that would have been odd.

  

  Erich Bergen
  • Theater
  • My Friends
  • Michael Jackson

• Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.

  

  Rue McClanahan
  • Film
  • Bigs
  • Producers

• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

  

  Edwin Hubbell Chapin
  • Family
  • History
  • Fashion

• I was on Broadway for three years with Spiderman and that amount of time spent on a show - it's a grind being on Broadway. The people that do that are probably the hardest working people. I shouldn't say that, because there's a lot of hard work that goes on in film and television, as well. That consistency of the grind of eight shows a week - I feel ready to go back to it now after having a bit of a break. I like to have the chance to jump between different art forms, whether it be theatre, film, TV, music. It's really wonderful to have opportunities in different arenas.

  

  Reeve Carney
  • Work
  • Television
  • Jump

• I remember the first time I saw a Broadway show and how excited I was. That really fuels me and for some, it's the first time they have seen Aladdin.

  

  Adam Jacobs
  • Excited
  • Broadway
  • Fuels

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