Broadway Quotes
Collection of 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 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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— Erin Hunter
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
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
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'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
that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play. — Marisha Pessl
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
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
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
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