Top 100 Quotes About Broadway
#1. I never thought of myself as a Broadway actress. I'm not really a singer or a dancer.
Spencer Kayden
#2. Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause."
Robin Williams
#3. We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally.
Bernie Taupin
#4. People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.
Loretta Devine
#5. Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.
Frankie Avalon
#6. The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.
Bette Davis
#7. I'm a weird dichotomy of nerd, sports fan, and musical theater, so I'd love to do a superhero musical on Broadway. But all the good superheroes are claimed.
Taran Killam
#9. Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. Henry
#10. I know I tackled something big, new, and scary and I survived.
Jen Calonita
#11. That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.
Janet Jackson
#12. I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least in a fleeting way, I got all those things.
Mark O'Donnell
#13. 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.
Art Buchwald
#14. 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.
Delta Burke
#15. I'm lucky to have worked in theater all over the world, but there's something magical about Broadway. The audiences are smart, they're educated. They go in ready and they're up for it, they're up for the party. It's a whole different atmosphere.
Hugh Jackman
#16. everything from Hairspray to the Academy Awards. They were also my co-conspirators on my 2006 Broadway show, Fame
Martin Short
#18. Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
Kate Fleetwood
#19. I don't think I've got the stuff that Broadway musicals are made of. But there are definitely many musicals that I enjoy. 'Hair' and 'Rent' might be my favorites.
Sebastian Stan
#20. I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.
Mary Gordon
#21. I wouldn't mind doing Broadway, but I am definitely trying to get a album out there first.
Naima Adedapo
#22. People sometimes forget how important Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.
Hunter Parrish
#23. I'm as anxious as any viewer would be to see what Temple is going to do next. All I know is that in the second half of the season, he's going to have more sexual tension developing. And it's a great cast - they're all Broadway actors except for me. I aspire to that.
Sean Patrick Thomas
#24. Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.
Chris Carmack
#25. I'm in a play on Broadway, I have an animated TV show coming up, I have a few movies that just came out.
Neil Patrick Harris
#26. I remember hating having to cross over the Broadway Bridge again, having to leave the peninsula neighborhood and go back to my apartment in downtown Boston.
Michael Patrick MacDonald
#27. I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth.
Jack O'Brien
#28. I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.
Mickey Rourke
#29. I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming. I mean, I had no idea! I guess people suddenly had access to me and knew where to find me, so they got me there, and I was amazed.
Sonya Walger
#31. The good thing about Broadway is that you don't have to worry about an airdate. It gets done when it gets done.
Seth MacFarlane
#32. You went to your first Broadway play or musical at some point, right? Come to opera.
Sondra Radvanovsky
#33. When you're starting out as an actor, you keep raising the stakes. First, you just want to be a character who comes on stage and gets a laugh or two and exits. Just five minutes on a stage, not even Broadway. But every time you say your little prayer at night, you place more demands.
Charles Kimbrough
#34. My real pleasure is that 4 times a week 1,800 people are standing up and shouting on Broadway for an author who died hundreds of years ago.
Terry Hands
#35. I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway.
Jenn Proske
#36. Grace not only embraces you at your most shameful, it's the most effective antidote to sin.
Anna Broadway
#37. Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.
Janel Parrish
#38. 'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.
Laura Bell Bundy
#39. I know about lots of things that have nothing to do with being Asian, that you would never guess from looking at me. I know all about musical theater. I could go on 'Jeopardy!' and knock off the whole Broadway show tunes category. Also the whole Bible stories category.
B. D. Wong
#40. 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
#41. I really hope for more Broadway. I didn't think I was going to love it this much. I would love to stay here.
Drew Seeley
#42. There's been talk of YES possibly doing something on Broadway in New York. People have approached me with that idea, and there are discussions about that.
Chris Squire
#43. I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.
Lea Michele
#44. I'd love to go back to Broadway; I'd love to do animation; I'd love to do hair and make-up campaigns because I love hair and makeup - and, I'd love to do film. I mean, there are a lot of doors I'd love to open up!
Brooke Elliott
#45. Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.
Ashanti
#46. I was walking home from the library on Broadway, and I remember that the street looked different to me, very clear and beautiful, and I felt incredibly happy. I even said to myself, 'I've never been happier than I am now.
Siri Hustvedt
#47. The store experience must become a performance, with the energy and precision of a Broadway play.
Richard Hayne
#48. I started doing theatre, and that's when I really fell in love with the profession; I learned a lot. It felt a bit weird to go from living in New York on Broadway to university, so I kept putting it off. Then, eventually, I had to give up the place.
Bel Powley
#49. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday. I miss singing a lot. I listen to Broadway show tunes in my car and sing along to them.
Bridget Regan
#50. We all know that on Broadway you need to have stars to do a play.
David Binder
#51. My goal was simply to be a working actress. I never imagined myself on Broadway.
Jenn Lyon
#52. I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
Michael Ealy
#53. The beauty of Broadway is that if I'm 60 or 70 years old, if they'll accept me back, I can go back. So I think for right now I'm going to focus on the music
it's the new baby
and see how it's going to work out, and then maybe in a few years maybe I'll go back.
Heather Headley
#54. I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.
Jackie Cooper
#55. I'm not a person who believes that Broadway is the only place. I think there's lots of work that goes on outside of Broadway and outside of New York that's better than anything Broadway has ever seen. But, it's historically the place. It's one of the centers of the universe, in many ways.
Billy Porter
#56. I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.
Tom Wopat
#57. 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.
Camryn Manheim
#58. I was in 27 Broadway plays in a row as a kid, and in between, I learned how to play the horses from the stagehands.
Dick Van Patten
#59. I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
Phil Collins
#61. Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.
Terry Hands
#62. I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.
Stephen Tobolowsky
#63. I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.
Ariana Grande
#64. To be a success as a Broadway composer, you must be Jewish or gay. I'm both.
Leonard Bernstein
#65. By the time I started writing plays, Broadway was never an expectation, so it's never been central.
Richard Greenberg
#66. There's no better feeling than being on a Broadway stage for me.
Jennifer Damiano
#67. For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.
Jeremy Piven
#68. Somewhere along the line, a concert became a variety show. It was no longer enough for four dudes to play together in front of some guitar amps. Costume changes, an army of dancers, and Broadway theatrics suddenly became standard for a 'concert.'
Shawn Amos
#69. In school, when we lived in New Jersey, we went to Broadway a lot, so I saw a lot of Broadway plays, and I just loved being able to see people play a different character and, you know, be able to be themselves at the end of the night. So, I've always wanted to do it.
Jordin Sparks
#70. I want to be a recording artist for my whole entire life. But Broadway is something I would come back to at any given moment. I love, love, love doing theater.
Ariana Grande
#71. The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.
Stephen Sondheim
#73. I would love to go into musicals. I got a chance to sing in 'Big Momma's House,' and that's something I would love to do more. But only in Broadway or in the movies. I don't think I would ever seek a career as a singer.
Jessica Lucas
#74. 'Story of My Life' was essentially a two-man musical play. In hindsight, I don't know if there was room for a two-man musical on Broadway.
Will Chase
#75. I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the program, they said, 'What is your ultimate dream?' and I said, 'Broadway.'
Rachel Tucker
#76. I represent where them killers at 145th and Broadway you get your head cracked
Cam'ron
#77. I've been reading scripts where they've been doing a lot of singing now, but within the dark, realistic story line. I would love, love, love, love to do that. But not a musical on Broadway, I don't have that kind of energy or stamina.
Alia Shawkat
#78. Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.
Bette Davis
#79. Early in the morning, late in the century, Cricklewood Broadway.
Zadie Smith
#80. I've got all these great broads in me, all these character women. I was playing a torn-down stripper at twenty-five on Broadway, and now I fit the shoes.
Faith Prince
#81. I was a huge fan of 'Avenue Q' long before I ever dreamed of being a part of it. I saw it off-Broadway at the Vineyard and waited at the stage door for autographs!
Rob McClure
#82. 'Birdman' is basically 'All About Eve' - the 1950 comedy about rehearsal rivalries in a Broadway show, and another Best Picture laureate - reimagined as a Batman suicide mission. The movie couldn't be actor-ier.
Richard Corliss
#83. I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!
Elaine Paige
#84. I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!
Claudia Lee
#85. When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.
Lea Michele
#86. When I had a look at the lights of Broadway by night, I said to my American friends : What a glorious garden of wonders this would be, to any who was lucky enough to be unable to read
G.K. Chesterton
#88. Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York.
Katharine McPhee
#89. Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.
James Wolcott
#90. I'd like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change people's lives.
Derek Hough
#91. Lapin breaks away from Broadway and picks a path toward Telegraph Hill. Her velocity is steady, even as the landscape rises underneath her; she's the little eccentric that could.
Robin Sloan
#92. I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led to those who help us most to grow
If we let them and we help them in return.
Stephen Schwartz
#93. I've gone from a kid who was sneaking out of my childhood house and lying to my parents to do shows in a community theatre in Reading, PA, to now having two shows on Broadway opening within two months of each other. That's sort of crazy, that trajectory.
Douglas Carter Beane
#94. Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.
Rafael Nadal
#95. Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer/actors were not the norm. From the 60's to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer.
Betty Buckley
#96. Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.
Charles M. Schulz
#97. A new star has been born and Vera's performance brings alive the desolate life of O'Neil's young heroine in a natural talent that is so fresh and yet so ageless.
Rajiv Kapoor
#98. Broadway is a main artery of New York life - the hardened artery.
Walter Winchell
#99. Life doesn't discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints
It takes and it takes and it takes
And we keep living anyway
We rise and we fall and we break
And we make our mistakes
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#100. I don't really know exactly what the plan is ... I'm not a person that's just pursuing acting or just pursuing singing or just pursuing dancing. You know, I would love to do reality television, I would like to go back to Broadway.
Todrick Hall
