Broadway Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Broadway

Broadway Quotes & Sayings

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I am almost famous in China, because I have that Broadway cachet. — David Henry Hwang

I am who I am and that's it! — Jen Calonita

I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway. — Stephen Tobolowsky

I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I saw every Broadway show as a kid. — Jane Krakowski

I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a big, booming voice. — Darren Criss

It's a dream for all writers to write for Broadway. — Richard M. Sherman

I was raised on Broadway because of my dad, but I never thought I had what it took to make it there, although I always wanted to. — Jennifer Grey

I'm not gay, so I don't know much about Broadway musicals. — Norm MacDonald

I love New York. I'm working on Broadway, and it's a great way for me to get my feet wet in acting and a great way to season yourself as a performer. — Taylor Hicks

Broadway, I have to memorize everything. You get one time to do it right. — Toni Braxton

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

If I was on Broadway, I would want to do anything Vaudeville or a biopic. — Kat Graham

Broadway isn't a very big career move. There's no money in it and it doesn't mean anything to your career. It's just a nice little jewel in the crown. — George Carlin

I had never auditioned for Broadway - any play - and I was not familiar with what you're supposed to do. — Ednita Nazario

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all. — Les Baxter

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To die with your boots on while writing poetry is not as glorious as riding a horse down Broadway with a stick of dynamite in your teeth, — Charles Bukowski

Broadway is really my life. — Vanessa Williams

I was a big Broadway fan for a while. — Trey Parker

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

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway. — Kate Smith

It was the first time that I was on Broadway, and I got to run as fast as I could to keep up. And I loved it! — Gregory Harrison

I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus. — Mary Gordon

Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl. — Olivia D'Abo

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. — John Lithgow

It's interesting - years ago, I had such bad stage fright during musical theater auditions that I just gave up. And now I'm on Broadway. — Tom Lenk

I'd like to one day be able to say, 'I was in more than one play on Broadway.' — Adriane Lenox

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful. — John Benjamin Hickey

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. — Martin McDonagh

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer. — Jamie Farr

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway! — Claudia Lee

Dad's Theory of Arrogance
that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. — Marisha Pessl

I'd rather be thin than famous
but I'm fat
paste that in your broadway show — Jack Kerouac

He doesn't comment on any of the music I play: Sonny Rollins followed by AC/DC followed by the Broadway score from My Fair Lady. — Tawni O'Dell

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life. — Michael Musto

I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer. — Zooey Deschanel

I thought it was all a flash in the pan. It wasn't until Broadway came along that I felt I had really made it. — Julie Andrews

I'd love to do Broadway some day. Before I started doing television I was just a primarily a stage actor, but I haven't done it in a while. — Steve Carell

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

I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in 'Hairspray.' — Corey Reynolds

I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place. — Cheyenne Jackson

I started my career off replacing Rita Moreno in a Broadway show. — Patricia Mauceri

I then moved to LA when I was 16 ... but before that I had done a play on Broadway. — Danny Masterson

Broadway is like a club I haven't been invited to, and I'm hoping that maybe they will give me a guest pass one of these days. — Merritt Wever

I grew up going to musicals with my mom here in New York, going to Broadway. I used to be in musicals in high school. — Sharon Van Etten

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show. — Dick Van Dyke

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals. — Andrew Rannells

I've been blessed to have acting opportunities in movies, television, as well as Broadway, and definitely want to continue to do so. — Nick Jonas

I did do Broadway for a little less than a year and realized quickly I don't have a passion for it and, more importantly, I don't have a talent in it. — Dominique Dawes

That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play. — Janet Jackson

Broadway is a definite symbol of New York. It's classic New York. — Katharine McPhee

I thought that I'd always just do Broadway, my original plan, but that was derailed. — Toni Trucks

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me. — Ansel Elgort

I really wanted to be a Broadway kid. — Reese Witherspoon

You can't forget the past. — Jen Calonita

Broadway has been very good to me. But then, I've been very good to broadway. — Ethel Merman

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. — Laurie Anderson

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental. — Suzan-Lori Parks

I love 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but I'm pretty sure Woody Allen hasn't killed somebody. — Mike Birbiglia

I spent four months once doing a play on Broadway. — Peter Capaldi

I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done. — Lea Michele

I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later. — Kenneth Branagh

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

All I ever wanted to do was be on Broadway. I mean, remember, I grew up in a trailer. — Steve Kazee

I would like to play Broadway! — Elena Roger

Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater. — Zac Efron

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things. — Katherine Jenkins

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

I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway. — Damian McGinty

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors ... and that is their competitive sense. — Elia Kazan

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

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize. — Dick Van Patten

A lot of people now don't know I've been on Broadway. — Wesley Snipes

My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway. — Gene Hackman

I have always wanted to be on Broadway, whether on ice or on the boards. — Robin Cousins

I go down the street thinking, 'Oh my God, I live in New York.' But then I think, 'Oh my God, I'm on Broadway!' — Ciara Renee

We may have limped onto Broadway as the underdogs, but underdogs bite back occasionally. — Bernie Taupin

Maybe I'm old-fashioned. But I remember the beauty and thrill of being moved by Broadway musicals - particularly the endings of shows. — Marvin Hamlisch

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical. — Anna Camp

I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make! — Clay Aiken

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

New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in the world live there. — Kristin Chenoweth

But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway. — Taye Diggs

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me. — Jennifer Westfeldt

I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with. — Ozzy Osbourne

People sometimes forget how important Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow. — Hunter Parrish

I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which is sad, really. — Amy Adams

More people saw the pilot of 'Glee' than saw me in my entire 10-year career on Broadway. — Matthew Morrison

MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway. — Ambrose Bierce

I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

I'd love to do a Broadway show, but I can't because of the style I sing. — Jackie Evancho

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

I love musicals and I love Broadway. — Ariana Grande

I was as content Off-Broadway as I was in a big Hollywood movie, and, I just try to be content wherever I am, you know. — James Earl Jones

The first Mardi Gras I went to, I stayed at the Tulane AE Pi house on Broadway. Slept on a pool table one night, slept under it the next. — Adam Richman

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

...the history of the Broadway musical is the history of short Jewish men yelling at each other. — Jack Viertel

Being on Broadway is the modern equivalent of being a monk. I sleep a lot, eat a lot, and rest a lot. — Hugh Jackman

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

A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway. — Ralph Waldo Emerson