Broadway Quotes - Page 11

• 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

  Mean, Play, Church

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• I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.

  Nate Ruess

  Uncles, Dad, Play

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• A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.

  Richard Greenberg

  Ambition, Play, Crafts

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• I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more.

  Twiggy

  Boys, Thinking, People

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• [VIA DOLOROSA]'s pushing Broadway as far as it can be pushed. I stand before you as a reporter, and you have to decide whether I'm an honest reporter or not. And if you're convinced that I am honest, then I think that you will listen to me in a way that you wouldn't have listened to a fiction where scenes are made. . . . I've thought quite long and hard about what I want to say in this play. And if it means that every single sentiment that I produce is put minutely under an ideological microscope, that's fine.

  David Hare

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• Broadway has the most savvy audience anywhere. They see everything and they know their theater. As sophisticated and subtle as you think you can be, the houses you get here will want something finer.

  Richard Griffiths

  Thinking, Want Something, House

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• A lot of people now don't know I've been on Broadway.

  Wesley Snipes

  People, Knows

  "Wesley Snipes is Ready To Pay" by Chris Heath, www.gq.com. March 29, 2010.

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• Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

  Taye Diggs

  My Favorite, Intention, Theater

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!

  Clay Aiken

  Made, Expected

  "Clay Aiken Remains Steadfast On His New CD". Interview with Brian Scott Lipton, www.theatermania.com. March 27, 2012.

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• Mary Martin was Broadway's biggest closet king. Everyone thought Ethel (Merman) was butch and maybe a lesbian, but she wasn't. And everyone thought that lovely little Mary was Miss Femme, and she was -- except next to her gay husband. In other words, don't judge a star by her cover.

  Bob Fosse

  Kings, Stars, Husband

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• But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Morning, Wall

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brother, Fields, Barren

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.509, Рипол Классик

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• '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

  Thinking, Opportunity, Gigs

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• I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

  Annaleigh Ashford

  Musical, Theatre, Denver

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• (on Marilyn Monroe) I was walking down Broadway with her and nobody was stopping us. She was going to (Stella Adler's) actors' studio, and she was taking me to show me what it was all about. And I said to her: "How come nobody is taking your picture?" She said: "Well, watch." She took her scarf off, straightened her shoulders, and draped something another way, and we were surrounded. It must have been 400 people. And I said: "Now I know why!"

  Liza Minnelli

  People, Watches, Stopping

  FaceBook post by Liza Minnelli from Aug 05, 2013

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• I love music. I'd love to go on Broadway and do a musical there. I just like to kind of go with whatever's inspiring at the moment, and kind of follow that as far as I can.

  Emmy Rossum

  Musical, Goes On, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've been lucky enough to get a taste of the feature film world, the TV world and Broadway, as well, and see what everything is like. For me, it's very much about the character and how different it is from something I've done earlier.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Character, Different, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• Like when that man was running down Broadway stark naked and we all had to eat in the cafeteria while the police tried to catch him.

  Rebecca Stead

  Running, Men, Police

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• The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

  Jamie Farr

  Phones, Tvs, Shows

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• I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

  Jamie Farr

  Roles, Senses

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• Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as walking up Broadway in Manhattan talking to yourself, except instead of eighteen people who hear you in the street talking to yourself, they're all in the room. They know, like, nothing.

  Philip Roth

  Teaching, Talking, People

  Philip Roth (2010). “The Human Stain”, p.190, Random House

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• I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

  David Mamet

  Years, People, Storm

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• The experience I had all those 40 years of working on Broadway and working on television, I bring it to students and I let them kind of drain me dry but they all feel at the end of the class that they are getting so much out of it. The students grow in my classroom because they feel safe. They don't feel like they're going to be yelled at.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Class, Years, Television

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• It's a dream for all writers to write for Broadway.

  Richard M. Sherman

  Dream, Writing

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• The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

  Audra McDonald

  Life Is, Wanted

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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