Apollo Quote by Neil Sedaka

If they [the crowd at The Apollo Theater] don't like you, they will let you know. When you didn't have any talent, they would…

— Don Alias

I wanted to play the Apollo Theater because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

— Rick James

I played the Apollo Theatre as a novelty act when I was about eight-nine-10. I'd stand in the wings in case some other act…

— Demond Wilson

The audience at the Apollo took no prisoners. They would boo you in a second. It was better than any schooling that I ever…

— Leslie Uggams

There was a little place in the backstage area where I could stand and watch every show. I always tell people the Apollo was…

— Leslie Uggams

I cannot tell you that I ever fell in love with the theater as an audience. I fell in love with the theater as…

— Sean Penn

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

— Jeremy Irons

My parents felt so uncomfortable coming to the kind of theater I was in; they had nothing to say about it.

— Eileen Atkins

I was super shy as a kid, and theater was a way that everything made sense to me.

— Jason Ralph

My mom and pop took me to the Apollo Theater on my thirteenth birthday to see Heavy D and Keith Sweat. It was late…

— Jadakiss

I wanted to be in the theater. It is simply the way I felt.

— Tom Stoppard

I wanted to play the Apollo because I didn't think I was going to be on the earth long.

— Rick James