Broadway Quotes · Page 16

Every actor tries to come to Broadway be it Richard Burton, Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor or Shirley McClain.

— Asrani

My mom took me to see 'Annie' on Broadway when I was little, and I just wanted to be doing what those…

— Bonnie Somerville

Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was…

— Liza Minnelli

You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.

— Colin Quinn

If you had asked me when I was little, like, 'Imagine you were on Broadway,' I'd be like, 'Yeah, right.'

— Kaitlyn Bristowe

I moved to New York City in the '80s to be an actress and to be on Broadway. That was always my…

— Michelle Visage

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

— John Lithgow

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

— Ray Conniff

I learned how to get rid of the Southern accent when I was, like, 11 years old and living in New York…

— Nikki DeLoach

The Songwriters Hall of fame, that's the one all the big-time writers get into, the really great stuff, the Broadway stuff and…

— John Prine

I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York…

— Joe Manganiello

I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was…

— Twiggy

I can go out raw with nothing, and my fans would still be happy, but I feel that I owe it to…

— Mary J. Blige

I think typically you'd start in a supporting role or an ensemble role, or maybe even an off-Broadway role. So to come…

— Cody Simpson

Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty…

— Alan Menken

I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black people don't always go…

— Stephanie Mills

I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that are not trained stage…

— Patti LuPone

If I have all the tears that are shed on Broadway by guys in love, I will have enough salt water to…

— Damon Runyon

I have a very close friend who is a brilliant clown, and I always wanted to do a show with him. So…

— Alan Tudyk

I am still so proud to have been a part of something that introduced theater to so many people who weren't exposed…

— Megan Hilty

Pretty much from 1979 through 1988, the backbone of my career was the theater. Working on Broadway a couple of times, working…

— Delroy Lindo

I did a great show Off-Broadway called Leave It To Beaver Is Dead that was at the Public Theater in New York.…

— Brent Spiner

People have their own interests and they want to play a certain kind of music. People want to play in orchestras. They…

— Henry Threadgill

I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway.…

— Lea Michele

Getting to perform my first Broadway tour in my hometown in the first three weeks of my contract has been so special.

— Myha'la

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

— Laura Benanti

I love Broadway World! I'm like such a dork; I wake up, get my cup of coffee, and am like, 'Let's see…

— Lea Michele

I was asked if I'd audition for a part in a Broadway musical because the director just loved me.

— Amy Macdonald

I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cats, West Side Story, Guys & Dolls,…

— Michael Showalter

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

— Bette Davis

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

— John Lahr

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New…

— Anna Camp

I've been working very hard off-off-off-off-off-off-off Broadway and doing little films and really sweating my butt off in tiny little black boxes.

— Dan Fogler

The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is…

— Martin McDonagh

Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.

— Dove Cameron

Most of Broadway is based on a movie or a book. You don't see many original musicals.

— David Bryan

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend,…

— Dennis Christopher

My father is a South African actor who danced in broadway musicals for 'Lion King.'

— Doja Cat

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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