Best 191 quotes in «broadway quotes» category

My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

My grandmother took me to a lot of theater. I was exposed to performance quite a bit - everything from Broadway to off-Broadway and dance and music as well. I was very lucky that way. It was a very rich childhood.

New York was the glamorous town that you only see now in old movies and on Broadway stages. The sky was lit up with dancing neon signs. It was safe to walk out in the streets.

Nathan Lane's Bus of Broadway Fun will be leaving shortly.

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

'One Night Only,' the words I'll be hearing from my agents when I tell them I'm coming back to Broadway.

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

One day I got to meet him because he was teaching Broadway dance. It was a little after Tap came out and he was very young. He wouldn't remember me, but it was quite amazing. And now I've met him as an adult!

Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.

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

Regarding the current Broadway revival of The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: There will always be those who sniff that the show is "feel good"-but, oh, it feels good to feel good. And the main reason The Music Man feels so good is that it is good-a great American musical.

Since nobody upstages Rudolph Giuliani, his will be a Broadway-class show, perhaps his final bravura performance before November 2000, when he hopes to be turned out of the mayor's office by virtue of his election to the United States Senate.

Quitting the show was a complete anomaly in my life and my career. I've never missed out on anything. I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.

The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.

The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.

People wear shorts to the Broadway theater. There should be a law against that.

The Broadway schedule is so tough, so relentless there was almost no time to enjoy all the stuff.

The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.

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

The Beatles have a deeper appreciation of all music. There's a humor, there's a Broadway sense, and later on, the Indian stuff came in. The Beatles were always taking in stuff and filtering stuff out to us. There's such a classical sense of arrangement, and their harmonies-what the Beatles did vocally is amazing.

The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.

The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.

The next time The Oregonian runs a misleading headline saying that it's because of bike lanes that people aren't having their streets paved, I want all of you to march down Broadway and occupy The Oregonian!

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

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

There are many Broadway songs that apply to moments on 'Mad Men,' and I sing them on set all the time.

There's nothing that can match Broadway for stature and dignity.

This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.

This power that I'm supposed to have over women was never noticed when I was a stage actor on Broadway. I don't know when I got it. And by God, I can't explain it.

'Tommy' was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. I was 14. It wasn't 'the show' that started that flame in me or anything, but it did excite me in a way no other show had. I'd never seen a show so brilliantly cast and directed.

Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.

We are living in the excesses of freedom. Just take a look at 42nd Street and Broadway.

When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

The only thing I haven't done as an actor, other than Thai puppet theater somewhere, is act on a Broadway stage.

[Vincent Price] did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor.

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

When I talk to young people who want to go to Broadway or whatever, I say, "The highs are very high and the lows are very low and then there is a lot in between.

When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

When I wasn’t working on Broadway, I worked in a Bat Mitzvah dress shop and was the Cinderella of the shop - always cleaning and vacuuming!

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.