Broadway Quotes - Page 7

• There's been so much talk in the news lately about illegal aliens in the workplace. When was the last time an illegal alien stole your job? Oh yeah, that dream job of the Chinese Delivery man pedaling up Broadway delivering Chinese food for 40 cents an hour, or on the back of a landscaping truck with 15 others.

  Greg Giraldo

  Dream, Jobs, Men

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• I like playing the same person over and over again. I've done shows for over a year on Broadway, and I never get bored.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Years, Bored, Done

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.

  Elia Kazan

  Organization, Police, Doubt

  Elia Kazan, William Baer (2000). “Elia Kazan: Interviews”, p.10, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.

  Alan Rickman

  Impact, Play, Careers

  "Alan Rickman: The Empire Interview". Interview with Nev Pierce, www.empireonline.com. January 14, 2016.

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• People need to understand. If they go to a show on Broadway and find seventy people working but only fifty spectators, how much would the ticket cost? That's what El Bulli's about. There are seventy actors who are playing for just fifty spectators. Is the price expensive? It's relative. How much does a normal dinner at a five-star hotel restaurant cost? Four hundred dollars. It's the same as El Bulli. But you can also think of it this way: How much would it cost to eat something that nobody else is eating?

  Ferran Adria

  Stars, Thinking, People

  "Ferran Adrià: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 16, 2010.

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• I remember when I was doing The Crucible on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, Lets make sure we remember this.

  John Benjamin Hickey

  Night, Crucible, Rehearsal

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• I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.

  Ariana Grande

  Eight, Challenges, Singing

  "Interview: 2012 must-know - Ariana Grande". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 25,2012.

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• It was during my first trip to America in 1953 - thats when I learned to visit museums. I was then 26 years old. When I travel, the first thing I do is to visit museums. When I go to New York City, I usually go to Broadway to see the shows.

  John Gokongwei

  New York, Museums, Years

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• on Broadway money rules. Like a host of vultures, the ticket brokers, the speculators, the craft unions, the agents, the backers, the real estate owners move in on the creative body and take their bite. The world of dreams breathes in an iron lung; and without this mechanical pumping it dies.

  Marya Mannes

  Dream, Real, Moving

  Marya Mannes (1961). “The New York I Know”

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• Broadway's not what it used to be.

  Betty Comden

  Used, Used To Be

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• Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Growing Up, Real, Goal

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• There is a problem on the so-called commercial stage in New York. The price of a ticket is exorbitant, and there are no longer original productions possible, apparently, on the commercial stage. They are all plays that were taken from either England or smaller theaters, off-Broadway theaters, and so on. The one justification there used to be for the commercial theater was that it originated everything we had, and now it originates nothing. But the powers that be seem perfectly content to have it that way. They don't risk anything anymore, and they simply pick off the cream.

  Arthur Miller

  New York, Taken, Play

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• L.A., its nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

  Jimmy Fallon

  New York, Nice, Sleep

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• There is no doubt of the essential nobility of that man who pours into life the honest vigor of his toil, over those who compose the feathery foam of fashion that sweeps along Broadway; who consider the insignia of honor to consist in wealth and indolence; and who, ignoring the family history, paint coats of arms to cover up the leather aprons of their grandfathers.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Fashion, Men, Doubt

  "Humanity in the city". Book by Edwin Hubbell Chapin, 1854.

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• This film "Phantom" takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.

  Stephanie Zacharek

  Phantoms, Film, Bigs

  "The Phantom of the Opera" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. December 23, 2004.

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• Always drawn to the theatric, Bowie also performed in stage productions of "The Elephant Man" and just recently collaborated on "Lazarus," an off-Broadway musical that's a sequel to his 1976 role in the film "The Man Who Fell To Earth."

  David Bowie

  Men, Elephants, Musical

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I was 23, and I was in L.A. while on hiatus [as an understudy] from Biloxi Blues on Broadway. The guy that I'd been studying with had been fired for horsing around on stage with Matthew Broderick, and they were really anxious to get me back into the play. So I was in a great situation, and at the time, I definitely wasn't thinking about television

  David Lee

  Thinking, Play, Guy

  Source: www.gq.com

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• When ''night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

  Marsha Norman

  Mother, Night, Long

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• Some of my best friends have written Broadway shows. Allee Willis and Brenda Russell wrote The Color Purple which has been recently revived on Broadway. That to me is such a different hat that you have to wear, but music is music. A Broadway show is something I would love to have the opportunity to do.

  Dave Koz

  Opportunity, Color, Purple

  Interview with Gregg Shapiro, chicago.gopride.com. January 22, 2016.

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• The fact that ticket prices are way too expensive, and there's only one bunch of people going to see Broadway shows, is something I've never liked.

  Martin McDonagh

  People, Facts, Tickets

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• That mental grind is the same, and this show has to be approached with the same mentality. Rest is paramount. Taking care of my voice and making sure I have the right foods in my body is paramount. Making sure I'm doing my technique work and staying in the script is all substantial. Continually pushing myself to find different nuances in the character on a nightly basis. This is definitely boot camp for me all over again, and Broadway in general is a boot camp for all actors.

  Eddie George

  Character, Voice, Technique

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

  Maggie Grace

  Shows, Broadway Shows, Free Time

  "Maggie Grace on Her Broadway Debut in 'Picnic'". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. JAnuary 18, 2013.

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• But as far as dream roles - I know this is so expected of me, but I would to play Elphaba in 'Wicked' on Broadway. I have a lot of dream roles, but that's like my main one because of the vocal track. I love belting high things!

  Ariana Grande

  Dream, Love Is, Play

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• I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really open to whatever possibilities present themselves.

  Sara Bareilles

  Dream, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I believe I've still got lots and lots to do. When I left Herman's Hermits in 1973, I said one day I'm gonna be in a Broadway show, and I thought it would be in 1974. Then, it took me ten years to do it, but I didn't ever quit.

  Peter Noone

  Believe, Years, One Day

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