Broadway Quotes · Page 15

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

— Alton Brown

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

— Les Baxter

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

— Lauren Ridloff

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

— Peter Scolari

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

— Andrew Rannells

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

— Stanley Tucci

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

— Jennifer Garner

To be honest, it was a little bit of a surprise to me that my Broadway debut was a musical.

— Ethan Slater

I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area…

— Jodi Benson

I've been lucky enough to get a taste of the feature film world, the TV world and Broadway, as well, and see…

— Yvonne Strahovski

Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on…

— Jerome Lawrence

Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times. Keep it up,…

— Scott Rudin

I started out doing musical theater specifically - I thought I would eventually move to New York and audition for stuff, and…

— Randy Rainbow

I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at…

— Ariana Grande

My return to the theater in New York was so specific. I didn't want it to be about leveraging my exposure or…

— Zachary Quinto

It's so funny, because getting a role on Broadway is kind of like getting pregnant. All of a sudden, people start bombarding…

— Claire Danes

I got an email from Nick [Kroll] that he and John [Mulaney] were looking to put on the stage show with two…

— Alex Timbers

No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental.…

— Margo Jefferson

If you don't go to Broadway, you're a fool. On Broadway, off Broadway, above Broadway, below Broadway, go! Don't tell me there…

— Joan Rivers

In some ways, what 'Hamilton' has done for Broadway shows - what it has done for the interpretation of history and how…

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I…

— Henry David Thoreau

I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't…

— Woody Allen

Honestly, people told me to. It was weird, I graduated from school, I never thought I'd live in L.A. and I always…

— Zachary Quinto

It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are…

— Alexa Ray Joel

I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I…

— Steve Carell

I never thought of myself as a Broadway actress. I'm not really a singer or a dancer.

— Spencer Kayden

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

— Gene Hackman

I've dreamt lucidly about how my Broadway debut would go and what that would feel like, but I know that I can't…

— Jordan Fisher

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

— Rosie O'Donnell

Maybe I'll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be…

— Dwayne Johnson

'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man…

— Will Chase

I don't go to my own opening nights, at least not on Broadway. But that's not a superstition - it's because I…

— Stephen Schwartz

I think I am the first person of color to direct a major white play on Broadway. In 1993? That's astounding to…

— George C. Wolfe

I then moved to LA when I was 16... but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

— Danny Masterson

To watch Lin Manuel Miranda... you could not make a better spokesperson for Broadway in a laboratory.

— Rory O'Malley

I grew up in a crazy, gypsy-like household of actors, dancers and loony Broadway people. It was their way of life, and…

— James Badge Dale

Negroes at last were on Broadway, and there to stay. We were artists and we were going a long way.

— Will M Cook

The fact that I even get in Broadway shows is, to me, still amazing, but then to win a Tony was just…

— Jane Krakowski

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

— Lea Michele

I'd be very surprised if 'The Greatest Showman' didn't end up on Broadway at some point.

— Michael Gracey