Tony Awards Quotes

#1. When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.

Charles Nelson Reilly

#2. Thankfully, the meat of the Tony telecast is the performances from the shows, so the awards show kind of creates itself around the season, and then I fill in based on the vibe of the season in general. I'm happy that there'll be so many legitimately good performances on the show.

Neil Patrick Harris

#3. Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

Laozi

#4. There's something so quirky and fun and nerdy about the Tony Awards ... We're dorks being silly up there.

Barrett Foa

#5. Young designers don't grow on trees.

Isabella Blow

#6. Awards sell tickets, and they're a clever publicity stunt.

Tony Randall

#7. My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

Scott Ellis

#8. Communication is a skill that you can learn. It's like riding a bicycle or typing.
If you're willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of very part of your life.

Brian Tracy

#9. But I can see. I can see everything. I can see things that Mom and Dad can't. Or won't.

Edward Bloor

#10. The people I idolized I saw once a year on the Tony Awards. I would buy the cassette tapes of the various Broadway shows and scour the photos inside the recording package. That's how I exposed myself to the arts - New York and professional theater felt like a very distant thing.

Jesse Tyler Ferguson

#11. India means everything to me. It is my homeland. India is my country. It is here that I have gotten love and affection as a film star from millions and millions of my fans over the last five decades.

Dilip Kumar

#12. History forgets the names of those people that cannot recognize times and seasons but it always remembers the names of those people that, by knowing God's time, stand in the gap for countries and nations.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. My dad is a marketing mastermind.

Serena Williams

#14. You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#15. I think, ultimately you know in your heart how much work you've done. You know what you're doing, if you're being honest on stage or not. That's all you being you. But when you acknowledges it - especially with a Tony Award nomination - you just can't help with the guilty pleasure!

Laura Bell Bundy

#16. The beginnings of all things are small.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#17. One of the joys of being an actor is that you're always learning new things. And I've been doing this since I was 19, so there's been a lot of new things I have learned for each part. I always assume that I can do it.

Richard Gere

#18. Awards are only a publicity gimmick.

Tony Randall

#19. I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

Hortense Calisher

#20. Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later discovering Barbra Streisand by listening to her albums at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh really changed everything for me.

Billy Porter

#21. Basically, my goal in life is to be David Hyde Pierce - go to Hollywood, make some money, come back and just win some Tony Awards.

Barrett Foa

#22. I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won my share of awards, so I don't worry about it.

Stephen Schwartz

#23. It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.

John Vianney

#24. It's like being halfway through the book. I can't just throw it in the dustbin.

John Fowles

#25. I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'

Jason Alexander