Broadway Quotes - Page 4

• When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

  Ashley Tisdale

  Play, Littles, Saws

  "Ashley Tisdale's Biography". People Magazine, August 07, 2008.

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• When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.

  Taylor Swift

  Dream, Growing Up, Pennsylvania

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• It's lovely that the Hollywood stars are crossing over to Broadway.... There used to be such a dividing line in the country between Hollywood and the theatre and that's just melting away. It's just wonderful right now!

  Julie Andrews

  Country, Stars, Melting Away

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• When I look around at Broadway and the West End, theatre is becoming an exclusive club.

  Kevin Spacey

  Theatre, Looks, Clubs

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• Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

  Darren Criss

  Song, Community, Individual

  "Inside Darren Criss' Plan to Create an Annual Music Festival With Broadway Performers". Interview with Ashley Lee, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 26, 2015.

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• I'm not a person who believes that Broadway is the only place. I think there's lots of work that goes on outside of Broadway and outside of New York that's better than anything Broadway has ever seen. But, it's historically the place. It's one of the centers of the universe, in many ways.

  Billy Porter

  New York, Believe, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I knew when I was a kid that I had a Broadway voice. I wanted to be a rocker, because I grew up in that era of transistor radios at the beach.

  Patti LuPone

  Beach, Kids, Voice

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• I'll tell you what I think in general about people who want to make their Broadway debut that are not trained stage actors. Don't they know, Broadway ain't for sissies? It is a tough gig. You are responsible, physically, mentally, emotionally, for eight shows a week, at the top of your game. It's not easy.

  Patti LuPone

  Thinking, Games, Eight

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• Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

  John Lahr

  Awards, Talking, Play

  "Lahr’s Tony Picks: The 2012 Edition". www.newyorker.com.

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• Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.

  Horace Silver

  Music, Swings, Bebop

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• Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.

  John Lahr

  New York, News, Demise

  "Lahr’s Tony Picks: The 2012 Edition". www.newyorker.com.

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• The most wonderful street in the universe is Broadway. It is a world within itself. High and low, rich and poor, pass along at a rate peculiar to New York, and positively bewildering to a stranger.

  Frank Rich

  New York, Peculiar, World

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• I like singing as much as I like acting, and all through high school I thought I might be a Broadway singer.

  Zooey Deschanel

  School, Singing, Acting

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• The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is no longer an audience for serious Broadway plays. . . . Perhaps we should acknowledge that, having lost its traditional audience, Broadway can never again be a home for new plays.

  Robert Brustein

  New York, Home, Play

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• Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

  John Lahr

  Sports, New York, Team

  "Betting the Tonys". www.newyorker.com.

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• Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times. Keep it up, Pat - one day perhaps you'll learn something about how Broadway works, and maybe even understand it.

  Scott Rudin

  New York, Giving, One Day

  "Scott Rudin Dresses Down NY Times Theater Reporter" by David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 04, 2013.

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• I own four copies of Robin WIlliams's Live on Broadway comedy special for HBO. One in Wilmington, one in L.A., one in my trailer, and one at my parents' house. I can watch it over and over again and it never gets old. He is the funniest, wittiest man on the planet!

  Sophia Bush

  Men, Hbo, House

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• Because even at the age of fifteen, I used to go see all the Broadway shows and feel that they were sentimental, that they were pandering to the audience and trying to manipulate the audience. I had no use for practically any of the shows that were hits.

  Richard Foreman

  Age, Trying, Sentimental

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• My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

  Gene Hackman

  Play, Comedy

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• I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Shows, Broadway Shows

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• I got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Movie, Musical, Auditions

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• I hoped, hoped, that maybe I'd be lucky enough to do something on Broadway, in the chorus.

  Jennifer Garner

  Lucky, Enough, Chorus

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• I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

  Jennifer Garner

  Play, Television, Broke

  "Jennifer Garner Interview - THE KINGDOM". Press conference, collider.com. September 27, 2007.

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• I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Tvs, Actors

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• You know, things kind of happen organically and, you know, Broadway sort of happened out of a career in performing and - which happened out of practicing piano when I was a kid.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Kids, Careers, Piano

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