Broadway Quotes · Page 19

Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

— Darren Criss

I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came…

— Neil Patrick Harris

I struggled for a while, but when I was cast in an Off Broadway show called 'Once Upon a Mattress,' that kind…

— Carol Burnett

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

— John Benjamin Hickey

In college I did theater for my first two years. It was plays, as if it was Broadway, not movies or anything…

— Brandin Cooks

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to LA and pursued acting and film, which…

— Amy Adams

I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

— Natalie Portman

I grew up singing, and I played on Broadway to thousands of people, you know what I mean?

— Corey Hawkins

My introduction to Woody Allen and to Ethan Coen was at the same time. On Broadway, I starred in a play called…

— Max Casella

Being a kid and growing up in Cleveland, the Tonys were how you saw Broadway shows: you got to hear from each…

— Rory O'Malley

I'm fortunate that I've been able to work on Broadway, but it doesn't give me an outside life. So I decided to…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a…

— Betty Buckley

Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and I'm thankful…

— Nicole Ari Parker

When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater.…

— Jenna Ushkowitz

I've done about everything in show business except to play on Broadway. I always hoped that I would one day. It's the…

— Cyd Charisse

Broadway was very vital back in the '20s. There were probably close to hundreds of productions that opened up through the course…

— George C. Wolfe

All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

I remember the first time I saw a Broadway show and how excited I was. That really fuels me and for some,…

— Adam Jacobs

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big…

— Jennifer Westfeldt

If you were an actor, anybody could go on Broadway and take a George Carlin hour and do it on stage as…

— Jay Mohr

I've been really, really fortunate to get some fantastic opportunities on Broadway, and I cherish all of them.

— Vanessa Williams

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

— Danny Kaye

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.

— Horace Silver

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.

— Bernadette Peters

Broadway is a place where people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't need to impress people they don't…

— Henry Wotton

I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.

— Vicki Lawrence

I like the fact that some of your favorite Broadway musicals are not made into movies.

— Chance The Rapper

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer.

— Steve Kazee

I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to…

— Lilla Crawford

When I wasn't working on Broadway, I worked in a Bat Mitzvah dress shop and was the Cinderella of the shop -…

— Lea Michele

I remember doing Broadway, I started Broadway in 2005, and, of course, I sing two songs in the play, 'Hairspray'.

— Tevin Campbell

They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway. They say there's always magic In the air.

— George Benson

I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

— Jamie Farr

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

I got to see Linda's [Hart] live when it first came on Broadway. I just loved her. I've always been a fan…

— Kristin Chenoweth

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

— Suzan-Lori Parks

A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

— Deborah Kass

We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.

— Bernie Taupin