Broadway Quotes - Page 17

• 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

  School, People, Tvs

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• They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have to want it more than anyone else, and you have to be your own champion, be your own superstar, blaze your own path, say yes to opportunity, follow your instincts, be eager, and passionate, keep learning, nurture your real, lasting relationships, don’t be a jerk, and free your imagination so you can become all that you want to be.

  Sutton Foster

  Success, Broken Heart, Dream

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• I was a weird kid. I should've been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I don't know why I'm not gay.

  Frank Oz

  Kids, Gay, Should

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dog, Science, Medicine

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.141, 谷月社

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• Better a square foot of New York than all the rest of the world in a lump - better a lamppost on Broadway than the brightest star in the sky.

  Texas Guinan

  New York, Stars, Squares

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• It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.

  Delta Burke

  New York, Stars, People

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• A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.

  Deborah Kass

  Odds, America, Narrative

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• Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

  Bette Davis

  Mother, Years, Experience

  1962 Advertisement placed in the Hollywood trade papers.

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• I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

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• I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Kings, Nine

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• I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Training, Theatre, Done

  "Exclusive Interview – Stephen Tobolowsky" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 25, 2009.

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• It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

  Aaron Tveit

  Dream, Actors, Television

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• If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  New York, Important, Ifs

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• I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.

  John Stamos

  Fun, Glee, Guests

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• I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Play, Going Away, Six Months

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• You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.

  Colin Quinn

  Pay, Making Money, Week

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• I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

  Elaine Paige

  Broadway Theatre, Long, Community

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• When you think about Broadway, you think broad and big, but the fact is there are so many plays that are very intimate, but fill a 1,500-seat house. Plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' have deep moments of silence and intimacy to them.

  Steve Kazee

  Thinking, Virginia, Play

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

  Steve Kazee

  Mean, Remember, Grew Up

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• I know, it's weird that I've never done a musical. I turned down two of them. 'The Lion King' and 'The Producers.' I turned two of the biggest Broadway musicals down, am I a mess?

  Mario Cantone

  Kings, Two, Musical

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• Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times

  Katha Pollitt

  Feminism, Novel, Dead Man

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• Bonnie and Clyde was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part of that from the ground up and investing three years of my life into seeing that show come to Broadway was really rigorous but also so exciting.

  Laura Osnes

  Years, Three, Roles

  "BWW Interviews: Two-Time Tony Nominee Laura Osnes Talks Masterclasses in Texas". Interview with Katricia Lang, www.broadwayworld.com. August 27, 2014.

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• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  Kate Fleetwood

  Humble, Nominations, Incredibles

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• Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were so high. On Broadway, people were watching and judging, especially newspaper critics who knew a thousand ways to slice and dice a songwriter for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of faithful readers. There was no anonymity for the Broadway songwriter. Even the best could find themselves stripped naked the morning after by the tastemakers and their readers.

  Michael Kosser

  Morning, Writing, People

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• Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

  Paul Rudnick

  Children, Taken, Helping Others

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