Broadway Quotes · Page 17

I'm very comfortable with my own body. I come from Broadway — everybody's naked on Broadway. I like to think of myself…

— Lea Michele

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

— Jenna Ushkowitz

It's better to star in Oshkosh than to starve on Broadway.

— James Gleason

When I got out of the Army, I started writing the usual 'Catcher in the Rye' imitations, and then I wrote something…

— Robert Downey Sr

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

— Alex Timbers

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

— David Duchovny

My story is so boring: Long Island Jewish parents take their daughters to Broadway.

— Idina Menzel

In '92, I got my first Broadway show as a performer - 'Crazy for You.' I was in the ensemble. In fact,…

— Casey Nicholaw

Broadway is so defeating for the most part that it doesn't encourage people to be as tenacious as they should be.

— Ann Reinking

A few years after I graduated, I was doing a play in Boston and was asked to audition for Christophe Durang's play,…

— Shalita Grant

When I saw my first Broadway show, 'Beauty and the Beast,' I was like, 'Okay, I'm definitely gonna do this.' After that,…

— Lilla Crawford

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

— Asrani

When 'Newsies' first came out, it just crash-landed with a thud; it won a Razzie for worst song of the year, and…

— Alan Menken

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles…

— Bryan Batt

I always wanted to be on a great TV show and in a Broadway show and have a CD out, and the…

— Cheyenne Jackson

Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't…

— Diana Rigg

If you can get tickets, a show on Broadway is worth the effort and expense.

— David Baddiel

I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.

— Rita Moreno

That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now…

— Idina Menzel

The next time The Oregonian runs a misleading headline saying that it's because of bike lanes that people aren't having their streets…

— Steve Novick

I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never…

— Ana Gasteyer

I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come…

— Tom Wopat

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

Even if you're lucky to have a play on Broadway like 'Chinglish,' you don't necessarily earn enough off it to support the…

— David Henry Hwang

Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was…

— Meg Cabot