Broadway Quotes - page 2

It's nowhere near as intense as what I imagine an actor experiences backstage, but I feel a fluttering nervousness before a curtain goes up on a play. I mean, any play, anywhere - on Broadway or the Bowery or in a church basement. (Ben Brantley)
The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada. View quote
Bernadette Peters
The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience. View quote
Bernadette Peters
One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people. View quote
Camryn Manheim
But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princess. All female leads are princesses whether they're Disney princesses or not. View quote
Christy Carlson Romano
I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in Hairspray. View quote
Corey Reynolds
I wanted to write for Broadway. View quote
Cynthia Weil
I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway. View quote
Damian McGinty
A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds. View quote
Deborah Kass
It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work. View quote
Delta Burke
My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period. (Dennis Christopher)
Mr. Brooks and I have been friends forever. He is in seventh heaven with his new success on Broadway. View quote
Dom DeLuise
I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway. View quote
Don Knotts
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. View quote
Dan Fogler
My daughter just graduated college and she's a dance major. She's done a couple of dance videos already and won Miss Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago. She's going out for Miss United States the second week of July, out in Las Vegas. She will probably wind up going to New York and trying the Broadway thing. View quote
Doug Flutie
My childhood dream was always to be on Broadway. I wanted to end up in TV and film. It's kind of flipped, and I'm not mad about it, but my childhood dream is Broadway and I want to end up there. View quote
Grant Gustin
I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.' View quote
John Benjamin Hickey
Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah. View quote
John Lahr
'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. View quote
Josh Young
I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad. View quote
Kara Lindsay
I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway. (Kate Smith)
People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in. View quote
Loretta Devine
I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess? View quote
Mario Cantone
If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing? View quote
Marian Burros
Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows. View quote
Marvin Hamlisch