Broadway Quotes · Page 18

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

— Stanley Tucci

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be…

— Andrew Rannells

Nothing's hipper than leaving the set of 'Girls' in Brooklyn and having a teamster drop you off at your Broadway show.

— Peter Scolari

It never even entered my imagination that I could be performing on Broadway.

— Lauren Ridloff

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at…

— Les Baxter

I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in…

— Al Kooper

I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

— Cam'ron

I spent 15 years of not being able to get a job creating a role on Broadway.

— Joel Grey

Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an…

— David Bowie

When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters,…

— Dan Fogler

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking…

— Elia Kazan

We need to diversify the people who are backstage and producing and marketing these shows. It's the limitations of these people that…

— Lynn Nottage

Bringing your show to Broadway is an economic decision on the part of producers and investors that may or may not happen,…

— Stephen Schwartz

I like film, and I like Broadway; I just love performing, so whatever God has for me, I'll be happy to just…

— Shanice Williams

Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones…

— Nina Arianda

Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the…

— Andre Malraux

“I know, I should've just shut him down like a Broadway Musical, but that's just not the way I'm wired.”

— Lynne Spears

I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became…

— Jennifer Damiano

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

— Adrianne Palicki

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

— Stephen Sondheim

I love being on Broadway and it's awesome and a dream come true but also it's about the work and making sure…

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

— Annaleigh Ashford

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really…

— Julie Andrews

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

— Dennis DeYoung

It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep…

— Gregory Harrison

I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I…

— Jane Krakowski

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

— Ednita Nazario

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

— Dick Van Dyke

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

— Terry Hands

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

— John Cariani

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

— Michael Ealy

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

— Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.'

— Adriane Lenox

I think Broadway is waking up to the idea that rap is an incredible tool for telling a musical story.

— Christopher Jackson

Being back on stage in New York, off-Broadway - I mean, that's an actor's dream.

— Joe Morton

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

— Mae West

The first role that I got on Broadway was supposedly for a white man. But I had some producers who fought for…

— Tituss Burgess

By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.

— Richard Greenberg

A 'Looking' musical would completely bring me back to Broadway. I would come back in a second.

— Jonathan Groff

There's nothing more Broadway than 'Hedwig.' It's very family-friendly. There's innuendo and stuff, but not more than you'd see on TV.

— John Cameron Mitchell