Broadway Quotes · Page 21

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

— Loretta Devine

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

— Jamie Farr

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be…

— Skylar Astin

So did my time on Broadway after the Xscape tour doing 'Chicago'. Performing eight times a week put in the mindset of…

— Kandi Burruss

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

— Ann Reinking

I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why…

— Frank Oz

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I…

— Jennifer Damiano

'Dancin' was exceptionally significant. I was in an original Broadway show and nominated for a Tony.

— Ann Reinking

I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter…

— Laura Bell Bundy

I was in my last year in high school when I began to think of becoming a dancer. I had never seen…

— Paula Kelly

My father was Abe Burrows, who was a Broadway legend. 'Guys and Dolls,' 'How to Succeed,' 'Cactus Flower,' '40 Karats,' 'Can-Can,' 'Happy…

— James Burrows

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've done some TV and I've done a lot of theater, obviously, and the last character I played on Broadway was a…

— Sutton Foster

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or…

— Matt Bomer

A lot of people didn't know I was doing Broadway. They thought I was one of those guys who was famous for…

— Orson Bean

I don't consider success doing a show for 30 years; I'm sorry. To me, you're successful when you graduate from something. I…

— Joey Bishop

I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.

— Jeremy Piven

I would love to do Broadway. That was my original aim, when I first started acting when I was 13. I wanted…

— Dove Cameron

If I do what I really want to do, I'm not going to do a typical commercial Broadway show, so I'm going…

— Mitch Leigh

Many actors in films are willing to go to Broadway, and screenwriters are writing plays. It's almost commonplace.

— Marc Platt

There are three ways to achieve stardom. Do a hit Broadway play, make a top box-office feature, or go into a successful…

— Mike Connors

I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

— Kevin Richardson

I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.

— George C. Wolfe

Broadway shows, you can do them for years and that's great. It's not my style, personally.

— Ariana DeBose

I've been blessed to have acting opportunities in movies, television, as well as Broadway, and definitely want to continue to do so.

— Nick Jonas

There is a strange kind of parental pride when 'Topdog' ends up on Broadway, or 'Elaine Stritch.'

— George C. Wolfe

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

— Jake Epstein

The film world is always looking for great source material, and Broadway has traditionally and historically been a place to go.

— Marc Platt

One of the boring tricks about capturing Broadway onscreen, actually, is just about all the different unions.

— Marielle Heller

I was auditioning since the age of 14 to be in Broadway shows, and it just never happened for me.

— Rachel Zegler

I've never been an actor on Broadway, but it feels like you're on a stage when you play at Yankee Stadium. And…

— Derek Jeter

I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there,…

— Jennifer Grey

Like when that man was running down Broadway stark naked and we all had to eat in the cafeteria while the police…

— Rebecca Stead

It was a dream to be on Broadway as a kid, so to actually end up there, I loved it.

— Sophie Okonedo

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

— Michael Emerson

If my 12-year-old self knew that there was going to be a Broadway adaptation of 'Newsies,' I would have freaked out.

— Andrew Keenan-Bolger

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production…

— Chris Carmack

If anyone ever wanted me to do Broadway out there, poopshoot readers, please think of me.

— David Arquette

When you rehearse a Broadway show, you get two months of rehearsal, while in TV, it's a much shorter process.

— Taylor Louderman

All I ever wanted to do when I was a kid was be in a Broadway musical and to be in 'Star…

— Wilson Cruz