Broadway Quotes - Page 11

• Travel by air is not travel at all, but simply a change of location; so my wife and daughter and I went to San Francisco by train, leaving Boston on a Wednesday morning in June and, then after lunch in New York, boarding Amtrak's Broadway to Chicago.

  Andre Dubus

  Daughter, Morning, New York

  Andre Dubus (2010). “Broken Vessels: Essays”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves.

  James Thurber

  Play, Self, Certainty Of Death

  James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

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• Yes, I am a failed playwright. I had three shows on Broadway by the time I was 30. They all flopped, and I fled.

  William Goldman

  Three, Shows, Playwright

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The Beatles first appeared on our show on February 9, 1964, and I have never seen any scenes to compare with the bedlam that was occasioned by their debut. Broadway was jammed with people for almost eight blocks. They screamed, yelled, and stopped traffic. It was indescribable ... There has never been anything like it in show business, and the New York City police were very happy it didn't - and wouldn't - happen again.

  Ed Sullivan

  New York, Block, Eight

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• It's not as though there aren't many, many art works and many other cultures, but there was something special about the civic nature of the Greek theater. All the citizens stopped working. They came into these theaters. It wasn't like a Broadway theater where you sit in the dark and you expect to be passively entertained. You're in this theater, amphitheater, in bright sunlight looking at your fellow citizens, recognizing their faces, and thinking with them about the future of your city. I think very few cultures have had a theatrical tradition that is quite so civic.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Art, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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

  David Copperfield

  Starting, Shows, Sneak

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• A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

  Lee Pace

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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

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• The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second — comics, picnic tables, men’s trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.

  Andy Warhol

  Artist, Men, Bottles

  Quoted in Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett POPism: The Warhol '60s (1980).

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• You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.

  Colin Quinn

  Pay, Making Money, Week

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• I've just been more interested in doing film right now and I don't want to go away from my family for six months, which was what I would have had to have done if I did the play on Broadway.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Play, Going Away, Six Months

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• I went to Broadway and I've been doing some fun guest spots with 'Entourage' and 'Glee' and I'm ready to have my own show.

  John Stamos

  Fun, Glee, Guests

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• If you have something important to say, Broadway and New York are great places to say it.

  Yakov Smirnoff

  New York, Important, Ifs

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• It's every actor's dream to work in a hit show on Broadway and also shoot a television show.

  Aaron Tveit

  Dream, Actors, Television

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• I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Training, Theatre, Done

  "Exclusive Interview – Stephen Tobolowsky" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 25, 2009.

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• I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

  Jenna Ushkowitz

  Kings, Nine

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• I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Winning, Thinking, Awards

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• I was just on Broadway for four months, and the amount of fan mail that arrived at the theater was just overwhelming. I mean, I had no idea! I guess people suddenly had access to me and knew where to find me, so they got me there, and I was amazed.

  Sonya Walger

  Mean, Ideas, People

  "IGN Interview: Lost's Sonya Walger". Interview with Eric Goldman, www.ign.com. September 13, 2007.

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• I am still so proud to have been a part of something that introduced theater to so many people who weren't exposed to it before. We took Broadway and put it in peoples' living rooms once a week for two seasons. People still come up to me in the street and say, 'I never went to theater before I saw "Smash.'" That's the greatest compliment.

  Megan Hilty

  Two, People, Proud

  "Megan Hilty on motherhood, ‘Smash’ and returning to Broadway". Interview with Mark Kennedy, www.apnews.com. May 21, 2015.

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• I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

  Kara Lindsay

  Stars, Down And, Pay

  "Diva Talk: Chatting With Newsies Star Kara Lindsay". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. September 30, 2011.

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