Broadway Quotes - Page 14

• I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in Hairspray.

  Corey Reynolds

  Hairspray

  "TV Gig Pulls Corey Reynolds Away from Broadway". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. June 9, 2006.

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• I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.

  Dennis Haysbert

  School, Luxury, Different

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• I was repeatedly told that there isn't an African American woman who can open a show on Broadway. I said, 'Well, how do we know? How do we know if we don't do it?' I said, 'I think you're wrong.'

  Lynn Nottage

  Thinking, African American, Said

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• Broadway isn't a very big career move. There's no money in it and it doesn't mean anything to your career. It's just a nice little jewel in the crown.

  George Carlin

  Nice, Moving, Mean

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Being a gay married man, I love Broadway musicals.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Gay, Men, Married

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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• I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.

  Cheyenne Jackson

  Baby, New York, First Love

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• Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, "Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause."

  Robin Williams

  Men, Night, Als

  Source: www.rd.com

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• What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.

  Jack White

  Real, Thinking, Fake

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Too many Broadway actors in motion pictures lost their grip on success--had a feeling that none of it had ever happened on that sun-drenched coast, that the coast itself did not exist, there was no California. It had dropped away like a hasty dream and nothing could ever have been like the things they thought they remembered.

  Mae West

  Movie, Dream, California

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• You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.

  Wendy Whelan

  Moving, Years, Dancing

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• The first song I ever learned to sing and play on the piano was 'I Remember Sky' when I was 10 years old. I remember thinking, This is the most beautiful song I will ever hear. And that remains true for me to this day. His music is the sole reason I wanted to be on Broadway. I wanted to sing music that transports us to the most important place one can travel, our hearts.

  Laura Benanti

  Beautiful, Song, Heart

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• One of the things I did when I was in New York, which has a wonderful deaf community, is I have worked on making Broadway more accessible to deaf people.

  Camryn Manheim

  New York, People, Community

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• I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons

  Jeremy Jordan

  Years, Broadway Theatre, Goal

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• The Girl of the Period, sauntering before one down Broadway, is one panorama of awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes characterize her. She never characterizes her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is bundled, not draped. She is puckered, not folded. She struts, she does not sweep. She has not one of the attributes of nature nor of proper art. She neither soothes the eye like a flower, nor pleases it like a picture. She wearies it like a kaleidoscope. She is a meaningless dazzle of broken effects.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Girl, Fashion, Art

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• Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

  Paul Rudnick

  Children, Taken, Helping Others

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• Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were so high. On Broadway, people were watching and judging, especially newspaper critics who knew a thousand ways to slice and dice a songwriter for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of faithful readers. There was no anonymity for the Broadway songwriter. Even the best could find themselves stripped naked the morning after by the tastemakers and their readers.

  Michael Kosser

  Morning, Writing, People

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• Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.

  Kate Fleetwood

  Humble, Nominations, Incredibles

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• Bonnie and Clyde was the first show and the first role that I got to originate. Being part of that from the ground up and investing three years of my life into seeing that show come to Broadway was really rigorous but also so exciting.

  Laura Osnes

  Years, Three, Roles

  "BWW Interviews: Two-Time Tony Nominee Laura Osnes Talks Masterclasses in Texas". Interview with Katricia Lang, www.broadwayworld.com. August 27, 2014.

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• If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

  Jake Epstein

  Men, Would Be, Spiders

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• I would not like to live in the past because you don't get anesthetic when you go to the dentist. You don't get antibiotics. You don't get the things that you are used to now, cell phones and televisions and things that are very convenient. You don't want that. But, it would be fun if you could, every now and then, just meet a friend for lunch at Maxim's in Paris in 1900, or go back to 1870 just for a couple of hours, take a walk in the park, and then come right back to Broadway.

  Woody Allen

  Couple, Fun, Past

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• You can't remember what movie you saw two weeks ago, but you can remember what Broadway show you saw two weeks ago and where you ate dinner - everything about it. There's something about live theatre that hits you in the heart.

  Susan Stroman

  Heart, Two, Live Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I wanted to be a therapist if the acting didn't work. I also did a lot waitressing and odd jobs. I'd audition but couldn't get hired to save my life. I'd do Off-Broadway theatre and that was great and I was excited and thrilled, feeling like, 'Well, it's Off-Broadway, but there's still the Broadway in there.'

  Jennifer Aniston

  Jobs, Broadway Theatre, Feelings

  "Jennifer Aniston: I miss my Friends". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. February 10, 2013.

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• I do an act, and I've been doing an act for 50 years. I do a variety show, which is a musical comedy show. I do comedy, and I do singing, Broadway show tunes and different songs that I like. Been doing it for many, many years.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Song, Years, Musical

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• It's always been a dream of mine to do a voice for a Disney movie. I think Disney movies and theater are very closely related. That would be amazing. I don't know about doing a Broadway musical, just because I don't really know how people do it. You just work all the time. That's something that I would definitely have to work up to.

  Alexa Ray Joel

  Dream, Thinking, Voice

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• If you decide to become a dancer on Broadway, never say who your favorite dance partner is, because members of the media will presume you never want to dance with anybody else.

  Bill Nye

  Media, Dancer, Want

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. November 5, 2014.

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