Broadway Quotes - Page 18

• The Girl of the Period, sauntering before one down Broadway, is one panorama of awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes characterize her. She never characterizes her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is bundled, not draped. She is puckered, not folded. She struts, she does not sweep. She has not one of the attributes of nature nor of proper art. She neither soothes the eye like a flower, nor pleases it like a picture. She wearies it like a kaleidoscope. She is a meaningless dazzle of broken effects.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Girl, Fashion, Art

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• I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons

  Jeremy Jordan

  Years, Broadway Theatre, Goal

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• Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause."

  Robin Williams

  Men, Night, Als

  Source: www.rd.com

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• One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

  Camryn Manheim

  New York, People, Community

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• The first song I ever learned to sing and play on the piano was 'I Remember Sky' when I was 10 years old. I remember thinking, This is the most beautiful song I will ever hear. And that remains true for me to this day. His music is the sole reason I wanted to be on Broadway. I wanted to sing music that transports us to the most important place one can travel, our hearts.

  Laura Benanti

  Beautiful, Song, Heart

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• You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.

  Wendy Whelan

  Moving, Years, Dancing

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• You can't remember what movie you saw two weeks ago, but you can remember what Broadway show you saw two weeks ago and where you ate dinner - everything about it. There's something about live theatre that hits you in the heart.

  Susan Stroman

  Heart, Two, Live Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

  Jake Epstein

  Men, Would Be, Spiders

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• I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't get antibiotics. You don't get the things that you are used to now, cell phones and televisions and things that are very convenient. You don't want that. But, it would be fun if you could, every now and then, just meet a friend for lunch at Maxim's in Paris in 1900, or go back to 1870 just for a couple of hours, take a walk in the park, and then come right back to Broadway.

  Woody Allen

  Couple, Fun, Past

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I wanted to be a therapist if the acting didn't work. I also did a lot waitressing and odd jobs. I'd audition but couldn't get hired to save my life. I'd do Off-Broadway theatre and that was great and I was excited and thrilled, feeling like, 'Well, it's Off-Broadway, but there's still the Broadway in there.'

  Jennifer Aniston

  Jobs, Broadway Theatre, Feelings

  "Jennifer Aniston: I miss my Friends". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. February 10, 2013.

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• If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.

  Alan Bennett

  Film, Made, Fortnight

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York when I was in college. It was full-frontal nudity. It's nerve-racking.

  Joe Manganiello

  New York, Character, College

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

  Mickey Rourke

  Play, Dozen, Stuff

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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• Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Gay, Men, Married

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me.... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

  Bea Arthur

  Animal, Hands, Years

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• The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

  Michelle Williams

  Tvs, Film, Possibility

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• I want to be back on Broadway one day. That's a dream of mine. There's nothing like live theater, and I think it's so important for me to be able to be on stage with an audience that responds.

  Naturi Naughton

  Dream, Thinking, Important

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• Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

  Chris Carmack

  New York, Cities, Different

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.

  Bill Nye

  Media, Dancer, Want

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 5, 2014.

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• It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are very closely related. That would be amazing. I don't know about doing a Broadway musical, just because I don't really know how people do it. You just work all the time. That's something that I would definitely have to work up to.

  Alexa Ray Joel

  Dream, Thinking, Voice

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• I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Song, Years, Musical

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

  Mae West

  Movie, Dream, California

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• I grew up with 'Cinderella.' So that was my go-to Disney film, definitely. It was princess-related, and coming from a smaller area in Illinois and wanting to do something greater than myself in Broadway, that was a film that I could really relate to.

  Jodi Benson

  Princess, Illinois, Film

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

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• When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.

  Dianne Wiest

  Bullets, Saws, Fragile

  Interview with Leslie Rigoulot at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, www.filmscouts.com. January 20, 1996.

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• I was modeling since I was four and acting in commercials since I was five- this was when I was in New York. I then moved to LA when I was 16…but before that I had done a play on Broadway.

  Danny Masterson

  New York, Play, Acting

  "Danny Masterson ...dazed & confuzed". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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