Broadway Shows Quotes

• I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

  Babyface

  Say Anything, Broadway, Shows

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• I really cut my teeth on off-off-off Broadway shows.

  Bea Arthur

  Cutting, Teeth, Broadway

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• The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

  Bette Davis

  Broadway, Reason

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• The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Country, Broadway, Used

  "Maestro of Broadway". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

  David Copperfield

  Broadway, Starting, Shows

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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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• 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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• I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda
  and how much money can Alan Alda have.

  Alice Barrett

  Broadway, Shows

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• And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

  John Guare

  New York, Cities, Numbers

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• If you don't go to Broadway, you're a fool. On Broadway, off Broadway, above Broadway, below Broadway, go! Don't tell me there isn't something wonderful playing. If I'm home in New York at night, I'm either at a Broadway or an Off Broadway show. We're in the theater capital of the world, and if you don't get it, you're an idiot.

  Joan Rivers

  New York, Home, Night

  "Joan Rivers on the Allure and Magic of New York City" by Joan Rivers, www.vulture.com. September 4, 2014.

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• All my roots are Broadway. I got my Equity Card doing a Broadway show, and my first love is theater.

  Jesse Tyler Ferguson

  First Love, Love Is, Roots

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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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• 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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• 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, Broadway, Legends

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• Jazz isn't dead yet. It's the underpinning of everything in this country. Whether it's a Broadway show, or fusion, or right on through classical music, if it's coming out of the U.S., it's not going to survive unless it's got some jazz influence.

  Dave Brubeck

  Country, Fusion, Broadway

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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

  Broadway, Shows

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• Trey Parker did 'Book of Mormon.' It's the best Broadway show I've ever seen. He does 'South Park.' It's wonderful.

  Penn Jillette

  Book, Doe, Broadway

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

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• I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.

  Lea Michele

  Long, Done, Broadway

  "Lea Michele on Picking Wendla Over Eponine and Why She Didn't Want Her Parents to See Spring Awakening". Interview With Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. July 23, 2015.

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• When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was 'Spring Awakening,' and every night I did a topless scene.

  Lea Michele

  Spring, Night, Broadway

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• I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.

  Natalie Portman

  Dream, Real, Class

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Broadway, Fats, Shows

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• Michael has never cried during a Broadway show. Except in that scene where Tarzan's ape father is brutally murdered. And that was only because he was laughing so hard.

  Meg Cabot

  Father, Laughing So Hard, Broadway

  Meg Cabot (2016). “Bad Heir Day”, p.10, Pan Macmillan

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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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• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  Lance Bass

  Broadway, Want, Toys

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