Broadway Shows Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

  Bernadette Peters

  Broadway, Vivid, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I did do an off-Broadway show for about 15 months. '91 and '92. It was nice to have a steady paycheck for a while. It was Oliver Jackson and Earl May, Art Barron and myself were the house band. I was 24 and 25 at the time.

  Jon Gordon

  Art, Nice, House

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• The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

  Jamie Farr

  Phones, Tvs, Broadway

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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.

  Horace Silver

  Swings, Bebop, Broadway

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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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• 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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• When I'm working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art - whether it be a museum, a Broadway show - or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.

  Naturi Naughton

  Art, Writing, Museums

  "Naturi Naughton Interview with Maranda Pleasant". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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