Being Quote by Essie Davis

Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season,…

— Neil Patrick Harris

There's a mythical status to the Tony Awards. When you're growing up as an actor, you hear about Broadway and the Tonys, but it's…

— Richard McCabe

If the Tony Awards want to remain relevant in the American theater conversation, then they need to embrace the true diversity of voices that…

— Lynn Nottage

The Oscars is a sport. There's the excitement of watching something live, as it happens.

— Neil Meron

I didn't see the Tony nomination coming at all. It wasn't on my radar. I just was happy to have a gig, and one…

— Ariana DeBose

I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won…

— Stephen Schwartz

It's really hard to go into a creative process and not think, 'I might or might not get nominated for a Tony.'

— Gavin Creel

I think the Oscar is the big money award; that means you've made it in a money sense. The Tony has always represented -…

— Brian Stokes Mitchell

When I got to New York, all I wanted to do - or so I thought - was win a Tony award or, at…

— Tituss Burgess

I don't like ostentatious galas and stuff like that, but if you get to the Oscars, you'd better get used to it and you'd…

— Philippe Falardeau

I have no regard for that kind of ceremony. I just don't think they know what they're doing. When you see who wins those…

— Woody Allen

I have a Tony Award now. It hasn't changed too much in the theater world, but it gives me entree for film stuff and…

— Casey Nicholaw