Broadway Quotes - Page 19

• I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

  Lynn Nottage

  Thinking, African American, Said

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• 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

  Baby, New York, First Love

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• When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

  Aida Turturro

  House, Done, Cleaning

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• What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.

  Jack White

  Real, Thinking, Fake

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.

  Dennis Haysbert

  School, Luxury, Different

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• I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in Hairspray.

  Corey Reynolds

  Hairspray

  "TV Gig Pulls Corey Reynolds Away from Broadway". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. June 9, 2006.

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• 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

  Nice, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.

  Jackie Cooper

  Morning, Home, Night

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• 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

  Giving, Guests, Clubs

  "Merritt Wever: ‘Nurse’ Zoey May Have Secrets of Her Own". Interview with Jackie Strause, pagesix.com. July 31, 2009.

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• If you want to be a theater actor, where do you live now? Young actors struggle on a Broadway salary. A lot of them live in shoe boxes; some of them are literally three to a shoebox. New York has gotten prohibitively expensive.

  Stephen Spinella

  New York, Struggle, Shoes

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

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• Quitting the show was a complete anomaly in my life and my career. I've never missed out on anything. I relished the opportunity to be on Broadway... It's the holy grail for people like me.

  Jeremy Piven

  Opportunity, People, Holy Grail

  "If there's one thing I'm prepared for, it's rejection". Interview with Andrew Gumbel, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2009.

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• You have two kinds of shows on Broadway - revivals and the same kind of musicals over and over again, all spectacles. You get your tickets for 'The Lion King' a year in advance, and essentially a family comes as if to a picnic, and they pass on to their children the idea that that's what the theater is - a spectacular musical you see once a year, a stage version of a movie. It has nothing to do with theater at all. It has to do with seeing what is familiar. We live in a recycled culture.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Kings, Children, Years

  "We will shock you: why musicals need to take bigger risks on a smaller scale" by Boff Whalley, www.theguardian.com. November 29, 2010.

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• I've always loved theatre because it's so immediate. The challenge of it is that, career wise, it's easier to get traction in the industry if you do film and TV because the audience is larger, and because the work can be seen for a longer period of time. I did solid work in a series of regional and Off-Broadway shows, but the work I did on TV or film will have a longer life with a larger audience (and with services like Netflix). Ultimately, there's something intimate about TV, because the storytelling and the actors come home with the viewer. It can be powerful because of that.

  Steven C. Harper

  Wise, Powerful, Home

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I think there is an evolving art taking place on Broadway.

  Hugh Panaro

  Art, Thinking, Evolve

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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• No one expects a Broadway musical comedy to be in the vanguard of what is bohemian, raunchy, folkloric, academic or aggressively experimental. That is not its job. Its job is to synthesize musical and social traditions with high-styled vivacity, especially those that dwell on different sides of the tracks in real life. The highbrow meets the lowbrow; sweet meets hot; uptown, downtown, all around the town.

  Margo Jefferson

  Sweet, Jobs, Real

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• Yes, I have been studying piano since I was six. Classical, jazz, compositional, Broadway, everything. I just love it all.

  Janel Parrish

  Piano, Six, Jazz

  "Skyler Shaye and Janel Parrish Worship at the Alter of the Bratz!". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. July 24, 2007.

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• Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Film And Television, Theater, Television

  "Adrianne Palicki: I fell in love with the script … and the costumes!". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. September 20, 2010.

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• The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.

  Bebe Neuwirth

  Hair, Saws, Firsts

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• All the lights on Broadway don't amount to an acre of green.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Peace, Light, Acres

  Song: I'm Gonna Be A Country Girl Again

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• I've discovered that Motown and Broadway have a lot in common - a family of wonderfully talented, passionate, hardworking young people, fiercely competitive but also full of love and appreciation for the work, for each other and for the people in the audience.

  Berry Gordy

  Appreciation, People, Passionate

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• But if you get a kick out of "The Jerry Springer Show," you're going to love it! The idea of hearing these lyrics and profanities - like the chorus at the top of the show - the idea that we're going to hear it in Carnegie Hall is just genius. It's been written with real care! It's not some crappy little musical that somehow found its way off-Broadway with vulgar-intentions. This is really beautiful, operatic music. It has a place in Carnegie Hall.

  Max von Essen

  Beautiful, Real, Ideas

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

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• It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

  Victor Garber

  People, Trying, World

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

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• 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

  Thrill, Remember, Old Fashioned

  Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. 1986.

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• The Beatles have a deeper appreciation of all music. There's a humor, there's a Broadway sense, and later on, the Indian stuff came in. The Beatles were always taking in stuff and filtering stuff out to us. There's such a classical sense of arrangement, and their harmonies-what the Beatles did vocally is amazing.

  Jimmy Vivino

  Appreciation, Stuff, Harmony

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• I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.

  Richard Madden

  New York

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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