Broadway Quote by W. C. Fields

I was asked if I'd audition for a part in a Broadway musical because the director just loved me.

— Amy Macdonald

So the only things I was being allowed to audition for were small roles in comedies. It broke my heart. No one would see…

— Khandi Alexander

I'd always wanted to act, but it was a question of whether acting wanted me and whether the movies wanted me.

— Anjelica Huston

The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater.

— Nathan Lane

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to…

— John Cullum

Actors were the first people to accept me.

— Michael Lindsay-Hogg

I only wanted to sing. Never to act. But somehow, thanks to peculiar circumstances, I was persuaded to act in the movies. I hated…

— Kishore Kumar

I was never great at auditioning for other people's movies. So I kind of figured I would have to just make my own.

— Nate Bargatze

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

— Jason Ralph

I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with…

— Harvey Fierstein

I don't blame folks for not wanting to put me in their movies or whatever. I understand if their audiences had an association with…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I came from a theater background and always wanted to act.

— Dan Levy