Broadway Quotes - Page 9

• I remember dreaming about it, about being on TV. I remember seeing Children of a Lesser God on Broadway. I was sitting in the second or third row, and I was just so blown away, and I walked out saying, ‘That’s what I want to do.’

  Jennifer Aniston

  Dream, Children, Sitting

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• The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.

  Susan Cain

  Art, Thinking, Persistence

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.264, Broadway Books

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• But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?

  Frederick Marryat

  New York, 4th Of July, Pigs

  Frederick Marryat (1839). “A Diary in America”, p.38

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• Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.

  Buster Keaton

  New York, Stars, Night

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

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• Here I am flying high over enemy lines in my Sopwith Camel searching for the Red Baron. Who's that behind me? It's the Red Baron! He has me in his sights! Give my regards to Broadway.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Flying High, Sight, Here I Am

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• I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why Im not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself.

  Frank Oz

  Kids, Gay, World

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• At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

  Andrew Rannells

  Age, Actors, Wanted

  "Andrew Rannells: Gay And Serious In 'New Normal'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 10, 2012.

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• I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.

  Ben Vereen

  Broadway Theatre, People, Groups

  "Ben Vereen: Usher’s Godfather Continues to Evolve". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

  Janet Jackson

  Dream, Winning, Awards

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• Whoever is born in New York is ill-equipped to deal with any other city: all other cities seem, at best, a mistake, and, at worst, a fraud. No other city is so spitefully incoherent. Whereas other cities flaunt there history - their presumed glory - in vividly placed monuments, squares, parks, plaques, and boulevards, such history as New York has been unable entirely to obliterate is to be found, mainly, in the backwaters of Wall Street, in the goat tracks of Old and West Broadway, in and around Washington Square, and, for the relentless searcher, in grimly inaccessible regions of The Bronx.

  James A. Baldwin

  New York, Wall, Mistake

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• I figured as I got older, the good roles for women would be in the theatre. So 15 years ago I started building a Broadway career to try and develop the chops to be accepted as a great theatrical actress.

  Kathleen Turner

  Women, Years, Careers

  "Why I'm moving to Europe". Interview with Sharon Krum, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2006.

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• If you get into a Broadway show and it doesn't work, you're a failure. And if it does work, you may be stuck for who knows how long. It just doesn't sound great to me!

  Betty White

  Long, Sound, Doe

  Betty White (2011). “If You Ask Me: (And of Course You Won't)”, p.91, Penguin

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• Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

  Ashanti

  Done, Hardest, Porch

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• My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend in the theatre; Elizabeth Taylor, a legend, period.

  Dennis Christopher

  Theatre, Legends, Firsts

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• I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show

  Jack Kerouac

  Fats, Shows, Broadway Shows

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• So I forcibly shove aside my prickles of pissed-off, which is easier than it sounds when millions of little sequined caffeine dancers are doing their big Broadway number on your internal stage. (Page 173)

  Deb Caletti

  Numbers, Dancer, Pissed Off

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• The next time The Oregonian runs a misleading headline saying that it's because of bike lanes that people aren't having their streets paved, I want all of you to march down Broadway and occupy The Oregonian!

  Steve Novick

  Running, People, Want

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• Dad's Theory of Arrogance--that everyone always assumes they're the Principal Character of Desire and/or Loathing in everybody else's Broadway Play.

  Marisha Pessl

  Dad, Character, Play

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.197, Penguin

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• My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

  Skylar Astin

  Couple, Theatre, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway! That would be perfect.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Perfect, Would Be, Supergirl

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

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• I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

  Floyd Dell

  Pain, Ideas, Justice

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• There's a strange sensation - you recall it from childhood - about sleeping in the afternoon. You rise into a different world from the one in which you lay down. The shadows have been rearranged. There's a sensation of sad sweetness, as if something has been overlooked. I used to feel it coming out of the movies just before dinnertime, after the matinee. How, I wondered, did Broadway actors face it, this bittersweet sense of time's slipping past.

  Jacquelyn Mitchard

  Sleep, Past, Childhood

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• Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

  James Wolcott

  Blow, Years, Wish

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• 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.

  James Wolcott

  Stars, Kings, Swings

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• What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.

  James Wolcott

  Dream, Ghetto, Dope

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