Broadway Quotes - Page 13

• I've always felt embraced by the Broadway community even before I felt like I earned it.

  Hugh Jackman

  Community, Felt

  "Hugh Jackman Talks Broadway And How He Loses Weight" by Mark Kennedy, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 10, 2011.

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• 'Tommy' was the first show I ever saw on Broadway. I was 14. It wasn't 'the show' that started that flame in me or anything, but it did excite me in a way no other show had. I'd never seen a show so brilliantly cast and directed.

  Josh Young

  Flames, Saws, Firsts

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• I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.

  John Lloyd Young

  Kids, Musical, Hollywood

  Source: www.npr.org

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• It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of the Greek theater. All the citizens stopped working. They came into these theaters. It wasn't like a Broadway theater where you sit in the dark and you expect to be passively entertained. You're in this theater, amphitheater, in bright sunlight looking at your fellow citizens, recognizing their faces, and thinking with them about the future of your city. I think very few cultures have had a theatrical tradition that is quite so civic.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Art, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• Simon McBurney on "All My Sons" on Broadway - we had an eight-week rehearsal period and I really enjoyed the way that he prepared us to go onstage. It was different than anything I've done and it was a different way of being directed, so I tried to take my different experiences of these directors and give those to my actors.

  Katie Holmes

  Son, Eight, Different Experiences

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• It just happened that we did [Fences] seven years ago on Broadway. Scott Rudin brought me August Wilson's original screenplay for it, and I realized I hadn't read the play. So I read it. Then I realized that Troy (my character) was 53 - and I was 55 at the time. I realized I better hurry up! I might be too old!

  Denzel Washington

  Character, August, Years

  Source: www.theawesomemuse.com

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• Rent Control was an interesting movie. It was directed by... I had done a couple of plays off Broadway, and this Italian director came, his name was Gian Luigi Polidoro, and he determined I was the person to play the lead in his low-budget comedy. He'd won an award at the Venice Film Festival, and... He was, y'know, a skilled director.

  Brent Spiner

  Couple, Italian, Play

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I really enjoyed Eddie Bracken. He told me a great story. He did The Odd Couple on Broadway, replacing Art Carney, and he said, "Art Carney did it for six months and I did it for three years, and I don't think anyone I've ever spoken to saw me. They all saw Art Carney."

  Brent Spiner

  Art, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did a great show Off-Broadway called Leave It To Beaver Is Dead that was at the Public Theater in New York. It was written by Des McAnuff, who's an illustrious director now, and it starred... Well, I was in it, Mandy Patinkin, Dianne Wiest, Saul Rubinek, and Maury Chaykin. It was an amazing show. But it was definitely ahead of its time, and people didn't quite get it.

  Brent Spiner

  New York, People, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I did a couple of little Off-Broadway things, but my first Broadway show was A History Of The American Film, written by Chris Durang. Swoosie Kurtz was one of the stars. It was a wonderful show. It closed in 40 performances. I think it was kind of ahead of its time.

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Couple, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

  Alton Brown

  Mother, Degrees, Theater

  "Why you should definitely not cuddle Alton Brown". Interview with Joe Dziemianowicz, www.nydailynews.com. November 21, 2016.

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• When I was thinking about what we could do in terms of what production values of Broadway might be able to add to the show, I had this thought that it would be really cool if we had a coup de théâtre. What would they want? And then I was like, an amazing, enormous tuna puppet that was like 30 by 40 feet would be pretty incredible. So I called up Basil Twist, and he got really excited immediately and started sketching out his idea, and I think it's a real highlight of the show.

  Alex Timbers

  Real, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I got an email from Nick [Kroll] that he and John [Mulaney] were looking to put on the stage show with two of their characters from Kroll Show and could I help at all. And they were doing it [off-Broadway] at the Cherry Lane and they had been performing it at UCB, just sort of testing it out. I worked on it for a little bit downtown and it was a great experience.

  Alex Timbers

  Character, Two, Email

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you see young tulkus when they're with other little monks, it's like in a Broadway show or something where the main character is spotlighted and the others kind of fade into the background. And you think, who is that tulku? Because that's all you see, even though they're all dressed the same and they're all the same age, but it's like the tulku is illumined. They don't look like the other ones.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Character, Thinking, Age

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• I got to see Linda's [Hart] live when it first came on Broadway. I just loved her. I've always been a fan of hers.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Fans, Firsts, Hart

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• It came up after doing St. Jimmy on Broadway for American Idiot. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Acting, Idiot, Jimmy

  Source: collider.com

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• We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Hbo, Directors, Records

  "Billie Joe Armstrong and Lee Kirk on Ordinary World, Jamming With Fred Armisen, and Turning 40". Interview with Dee Lockett, www.vulture.com. Ocotber 16, 2016.

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• I have a very close friend who is a brilliant clown, and I always wanted to do a show with him. So I did one year at La MaMa Theatre. I had not done stilts before that show, and I had about two weeks to learn how to do that, and they were just made with off-off Broadway money. The ones that I had in Rogue One were made by [Industrial Light & Magic]. So they were really easy. They were made with actual prosthetic feet on the bottom. They were athletic, in a way. I could run in them. There was a bounce to them that I could use.

  Alan Tudyk

  Running, Years, Two

  "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.

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• To play Cleopatra on Broadway would just be incredible.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Play, Incredibles

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• A few years later, when I was still going to these meetings, I was also "second-acting" every Broadway show [walking in with the crowd after intermission]. I snuck in to see Grease with John Travolta in kind of a secondary part and Adrienne Barbeau playing Rizzo, into Pippin, hung out with Ben Vereen and Bob Fosse. It was an amazing time for a teenager.

  David Copperfield

  Teenager, Years, Grease

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was occasionally getting calls for some things. But I would say, 22 to 29 was a lot of scuffling. Hoping to get called for bad wedding gigs and I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months.

  Jon Gordon

  Gigs, Months, Shows

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• The first time I saw a picture of [fabled actress] Ethel Barrymore - she was on Broadway and she was wearing pearls. I thought, "That's who I should grow up to be." It's odd, because it was her physical image that I wanted; I had no idea what it was like actually to be her. In those days, we weren't bombarded by images the way we are now, and the ones we did have were more vivid in people's minds.

  Bette Midler

  Growing Up, Ideas, Bombarded By

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• One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO. She moved seamlessly through an array of spirited and soul-stirring characters, each one holding a mirror up to me and allowing me in many ways to see a reflection of myself on screen.

  Aisha Hinds

  Memories, Character, Reflection

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• I can tell you that in my modern life I enjoy language. I enjoy words, their meaning, what they sound like to the ear, what they sound like to the listener. I strive to write the perfect sentence in all that I do, and when I write [the] perfect sentence I know it. If I had a second life I'd be a librettist for Broadway musicals.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Writing, Perfect, Ears

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• Most actors don't understand acting. I think it's an art form that craft is out the window. I don't think people get it at all, most of the time. Or they get some of it, not all of it. If you get an Academy Award nomination, you think 95 percent of the profession is unemployed at any given time, most people will never even find work as an actor, and the ones who do will probably make $50,000 a year at the most if they're lucky. Some will never do Broadway. Some will never do a major role. And a really, really, really small percentage of them maybe will be nominated for a major award.

  Viola Davis

  Art, Thinking, Years

  Source: featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com

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