Broadway Quotes - Page 16

• '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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• You always want to be the person who doesn't need to be included, but it feels damn good to be among you people. My first Broadway show was Master Class, and I saw Audra McDonald. The one that sealed the deal was Ragtime, with Marin Mazzie. My first big role was with John Lithgow, and he taught me the ropes. Norm Lewis sang the night I met my husband. It makes me feel like I have a family.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Husband, Night, Mcdonalds

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• Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides concrete examples of some of the best ways to present the music in the widest variety of settings-radio, TV, recordings, movies, concert halls, festivals, solo, small ensemble, big band, symphony orchestra, opera, Broadway shows.... You name it, he did it!

  Billy Taylor

  Names, Careers, Symphony

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• I started my career off replacing Rita Moreno in a Broadway show.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Careers, Shows, Broadway Shows

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The experience I had all those 40 years of working on Broadway and working on television, I bring it to students and I let them kind of drain me dry but they all feel at the end of the class that they are getting so much out of it. The students grow in my classroom because they feel safe. They don't feel like they're going to be yelled at.

  Patricia Mauceri

  Class, Years, Television

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I absolutely miss dancing. Don't want to do it for a living, I'm getting old, I can't move like I used to. If I had the opportunity to do something on Broadway or a musical, I would jump at the opportunity.

  Michael K. Williams

  Moving, Opportunity, Dancing

  Source: collider.com

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• I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

  David Mamet

  Years, People, Storm

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• Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as walking up Broadway in Manhattan talking to yourself, except instead of eighteen people who hear you in the street talking to yourself, they're all in the room. They know, like, nothing.

  Philip Roth

  Teaching, Talking, People

  Philip Roth (2010). “The Human Stain”, p.190, Random House

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• Acting on the stage is a luxury for me. I lose money. I make movies for financial reasons and this allows me the luxury of acting on Broadway. Hollywood, unfortunately, exploits actors for their own reasons, which are usually financial. So we might as well exploit Hollywood as much as it exploits us.

  George C. Scott

  Luxury, Acting, Hollywood

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• I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen.

  John Lloyd Young

  Kids, Musical, Hollywood

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music Man' if there hadn't been a film where he played the part. I just heard how great he was on Broadway way before my time.

  John Lloyd Young

  Men, Generations, Film

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to see my Broadway performance, but gets a taste for what it might have been like now, because they can see Clint Eastwood's film."

  John Lloyd Young

  Teenager, Kids, May

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.

  Rue McClanahan

  Stars, Names, Hollywood

  Rue McClanahan (2007). “My First Five Husbands..And the Ones Who Got Away”, p.190, Three Rivers Press

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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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• 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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• On this side of the Atlantic, the arrival of a new Woody Allen movie is always greeted with tremors of bliss by filmgoers past the age of 60, with mild curiosity by those in their 50s, with trepidation by those in their 40s, with fear and loathing by those in their 30s, and with complete indifference by anyone younger. An icon to baby boomers, who will never concede that when something is over, it is really over (Clapton, McCartney, Santana, the 1960s), Allen has not made a truly memorable film since Bullets On Broadway back in 1994.

  Joe Queenan

  Baby, Memorable, Past

  "Proles in a pickle" by Joe Queenan, www.theguardian.com. January 20, 2006.

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• I've been lucky enough to get a taste of the feature film world, the TV world and Broadway, as well, and see what everything is like. For me, it's very much about the character and how different it is from something I've done earlier.

  Yvonne Strahovski

  Character, Different, Lucky

  Source: collider.com

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• I did always want to write. And then, when I left New York, where I was working very steadily in the theater - I had done three Broadway shows in a row and was a bit burnt out - I moved out to L.A. and I was not working very much. I came in cold and I'd work for a week, but then I'd have a month or two off. I thought, "I'm going to go crazy unless I actually do write." Like a lot of things in life, it was a situation that came about by circumstances.

  Jim Piddock

  New York, Crazy, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• I remember going onstage on Broadway in this Leigh Bowery thing for a track like "Ich Bin Kunst." I've got breasts, this latex dripping down on my head, and I come out in a box. I just remember the audience looking really horrified because Rosie [O'Donnell] was trying to sell the show as sort of Pippin and Annie. She was saying it's a family show.

  Boy George

  Track, Trying, Remember

  Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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• I definitely want my career to continue to branch out. I've had the pleasure of working in different areas of entertainment, from being in the music business as a teenager in a girl group to doing Broadway.

  Naturi Naughton

  Girl, Teenager, Careers

  Source: collider.com

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• 'One Night Only,' the words I'll be hearing from my agents when I tell them I'm coming back to Broadway.

  Hugh Jackman

  Night, Agents, Hearing

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

  Audra McDonald

  Life Is, Wanted

  "The 58th Annual Tony Awards". TV Special, www.imdb.com. June 06, 2004.

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