Broadway Quotes · Page 16

I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

— Ian Mckellen

I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my…

— John Stamos

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

— Janet Jackson

The majority of great work that's being done in the theater is happening Off Broadway, where you can't make a living.

— Steven Pasquale

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

— Marsha Norman

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw…

— Dianne Wiest

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

— Olesya Rulin

If you try to do a genuine rock musical, rock people will think you're flaccid and Broadway audiences will think you're too…

— Dennis DeYoung

I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to…

— John Lloyd Young

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining…

— Marian Burros

I think I learned more about writing scores for Broadway by making mix tapes in the '90s than I did in college.…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

I'd love to do Broadway or the West End. I'm sure doing eight shows a week is gruelling, but I did a…

— Rebel Wilson

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found…

— Marvin Hamlisch

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out…

— David Mamet

For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a…

— Ann Rule

“A new star has been born and Vera’s performance brings alive the desolate life of O’Neil’s young heroine in a natural talent…

— Rajiv Kapoor

I did The Seagull, the Chekhov play, on Broadway, a couple of years ago, and I had done it in London, and…

— Carey Mulligan

A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also "second-acting" every Broadway show [walking in with…

— David Copperfield

Back in the fifties I was the hot, young comic on CBS and a regular on 'The Ed Sullivan Show.' I was…

— Orson Bean

I've worked with a lot of gay and lesbian organizations. I sit on the board of the Empire State Pride Agenda. I've…

— Billy Porter

My first feature film was a movie called 'A Gunfight,' with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It…

— Keith Carradine

The Broadway community is unlike any community in show business and it is unlike any community in the world. When you come…

— Lorna Luft

[VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to…

— David Hare

I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false,…

— Julian Beck

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

— Leonard Bernstein

I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.

— Ari Graynor

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

— Zooey Deschanel

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra.…

— Mandy Moore

The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.

— Seth MacFarlane

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

— Sharon Van Etten

When you're performing on Broadway every night, you're so much more accessible to people in the industry. Everybody is going to know…

— Jeremy Jordan

I wanna do Broadway one day in New York. That would be an ultimate dream of mine.

— Jessica Lowndes

Even with the success of 'Once,' I can't think about making theater straight for Broadway. Too nerve-racking.

— John Tiffany

It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now…

— Tom Lenk

Nobody knows I sing. Even though I've done Broadway musicals. I would only pick it over acting because it's such a pure…

— Megan Mullally

I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least…

— Mark O'Donnell

There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

— Bryan Batt

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway.

— Ethel Merman

I just hope to keep doing film and TV and eventually Broadway. It's definitely what I want to do for the rest…

— Lili Reinhart

For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'

— Joel Grey