Broadway Quotes · Page 20

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

— Claudia Lee

When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

— Marsha Norman

To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.

— Leonard Bernstein

If you try to do a genuine rock musical, rock people will think you're flaccid and Broadway audiences will think you're too…

— Dennis DeYoung

Ive been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show Billy Elliot there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

— Olesya Rulin

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw…

— Dianne Wiest

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

— Janet Jackson

The majority of great work that's being done in the theater is happening Off Broadway, where you can't make a living.

— Steven Pasquale

My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to…

— Julia Stiles

I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway…

— Sami Gayle

I had a hard-scrabble childhood with my parents. I have a lot of baggage. To come down to the footlights and accept…

— Bette Midler

I hate this expression, but - "thinking outside the box," in terms of how to market and put a Broadway show out…

— Katherine Shindle

We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money…

— Arthur Laurents

I think as a writer you never have to flee from fame because you're not that visible in the first place, but,…

— Martin McDonagh

Launching a Broadway show is like no other endeavor. It's taxing because you're present - it's not like cutting a movie and…

— Mark Hamill

I'm definitely nervous and excited. I feel like I've been playing off-Broadway, not to say that Boston doesn't have a great theatre…

— Todd English

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

— James Thurber

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would…

— Lara Pulver

Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

— Marisha Pessl

Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.

— Pedro Almodovar

I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my…

— John Stamos

I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

— Ian Mckellen

I really hope for more Broadway. I didn't think I was going to love it this much. I would love to stay…

— Drew Seeley

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville…

— Ethel Merman

I am not of the impression that an overwhelming amount Hip Hop artists are super savvy on Broadway and it's goings-on, but…

— Rafael Casal

When you're performing on Broadway every night, you're so much more accessible to people in the industry. Everybody is going to know…

— Jeremy Jordan

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals…

— Sharon Van Etten

I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra.…

— Mandy Moore

The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.

— Seth MacFarlane

I've done a bunch of Broadway, so I'm a theater nerd when I come to New York.

— Ari Graynor

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

— Zooey Deschanel

I love being on Broadway and it's awesome and a dream come true but also it's about the work and making sure…

— Jasmine Cephas Jones

I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

— Annaleigh Ashford

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really…

— Julie Andrews

Hit songs did not come out of musicals. Pop-rock was creating the hits. There were very few songs that made the charts…

— Stephen Sondheim

I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked

— Cam'ron

I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in…

— Al Kooper

“I know, I should've just shut him down like a Broadway Musical, but that's just not the way I'm wired.”

— Lynne Spears

I spent 15 years of not being able to get a job creating a role on Broadway.

— Joel Grey

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

— Adrianne Palicki