Broadway Quotes - Page 15

• 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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• What success I achieved in the theatre is due to the fact that I have always worked just as hard when there were ten people in the house as when there were thousands. Just as hard in Springfield, Illinois as on Broadway.

  Bill Robinson

  Illinois, People, House

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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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• Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

  Chris Carmack

  New York, Cities, Different

  "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

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• In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.

  Rex Reed

  Passion, Angel, Greatness

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• Nathan Lane's Bus of Broadway Fun will be leaving shortly.

  Jon Stewart

  Fun, Leaving, Lanes

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• The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film.

  Michelle Williams

  Tvs, Film, Possibility

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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 probably did a dozen plays, like Off-Off-Broadway stuff.

  Mickey Rourke

  Play, Dozen, Stuff

  Interview with Christopher Walken, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 16, 2009.

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• I play characters who are comfortable naked, but that's something you work up to. I did a play off-Broadway in New York when I was in college. It was full-frontal nudity. It's nerve-racking.

  Joe Manganiello

  New York, Character, College

  Source: www.elle.com

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• If, for instance, we'd made the film after the show had been to Broadway, it would have been exactly the same film but we would have been assured that they would have understood it. We didn't have to do any alterations for Broadway. I was supposed to go a fortnight before it opened to alter anything that was necessary and there was nothing really.

  Alan Bennett

  Film, Made, Fortnight

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I love music. I'd love to go on Broadway and do a musical there. I just like to kind of go with whatever's inspiring at the moment, and kind of follow that as far as I can.

  Emmy Rossum

  Musical, Goes On, Kind

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I played Tina Denmark in Ruthless the Musical when I was 9 at the Theatre on Broadway in Denver.

  Annaleigh Ashford

  Musical, Theatre, Denver

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• 'Hairspray' was my first Broadway show. In the meantime, after the show was over, I would go down and do gigs at these clubs that I wasn't even old enough to get into. That continued on, and I think what ended up happening was that I just got these incredible opportunities on Broadway.

  Laura Bell Bundy

  Thinking, Opportunity, Gigs

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• But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I do not like their cities and forts, with their morning and evening guns, and sails flapping in one's eye. I want a whole continent to breathe in, and a good deal of solitude and silence, such as all Wall Street cannot buy,--nor Broadway with its wooden pavement. I must live along the beach, on the southern shore, which looks directly out to sea,--and see what that great parade of water means, that dashes and roars, and has not yet wet me, as long as I have lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beach, Morning, Wall

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A dilettantism in nature is barren and unworthy. A fop of fields is no better than his brother on Broadway.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Brother, Fields, Barren

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.509, Рипол Классик

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