Broadway Quotes - Page 5

• The commercial theatre may still be considered one of New York's primary tourist attractions, but . . . there is no longer an audience for serious Broadway plays. . . . Perhaps we should acknowledge that, having lost its traditional audience, Broadway can never again be a home for new plays.

  Robert Brustein

  New York, Home, Play

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• Let's give a big cuddly shout-out to Pat Healy, infant provocateur and amateur journalist at The New York Times. Keep it up, Pat - one day perhaps you'll learn something about how Broadway works, and maybe even understand it.

  Scott Rudin

  New York, Giving, One Day

  "Scott Rudin Dresses Down NY Times Theater Reporter" by David Rooney, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 04, 2013.

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• You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Horse, Believe

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• Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of its demise is greatly exaggerated. There's a lot of life yet in the old tart.

  John Lahr

  New York, News, Demise

  "Lahr’s Tony Picks: The 2012 Edition". www.newyorker.com.

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• Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for the yearly ballyhoo, in the metropolitan areas where a Broadway show plays, the local economy is boosted by three and a half times the gross ticket sales. So when we're talking Tonys, we're talking moolah.

  John Lahr

  Awards, Talking, Play

  "Lahr’s Tony Picks: The 2012 Edition". www.newyorker.com.

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• My early days in Broadway were all comedies. I never did a straight play on Broadway.

  Gene Hackman

  Play, Comedy

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• I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called The Boy from Oz, where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

  Hugh Jackman

  Boys, Play, America

  Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. April 29, 2003.

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• That's always - that's been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.

  Janet Jackson

  Dream, Winning, Awards

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• The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.

  Blair Underwood

  Real, Years, Next Year

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• I think the fact that I grew up in show business had a real effect on my personality. If you were born in New York during the golden age of television, and you grew up on Broadway, that marks you.

  Christopher Walken

  New York, Real, Thinking

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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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• Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let more imaginative brainstorms blow through.

  James Wolcott

  Blow, Years, Wish

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• 'Hairspray' was a movie turned Broadway musical turned Hollywood remake, and that is the 'Lion King' circle of life as we know it in Times Square, the creative loop that swings for the stars and sometimes crashes into the upper deck.

  James Wolcott

  Stars, Kings, Swings

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• What a turnaround in sentiment 'Glee' exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.

  James Wolcott

  Dream, Ghetto, Dope

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• A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

  Emilia Clarke

  Girl, Should Have, Theatre

  "Emilia Clarke: out of the dragon's den". Interview With Emma John, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2013.

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• I remember telling the agent, 'I don't want to do anything but Broadway.' She was like, 'That's not really possible because there is not that much Broadway. So I'll send you out on TV and stuff like that.'

  Kate Mara

  Agents, Want, Stuff

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

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• I would love to do Broadway. I dont think theres anything more amazing than theater. OK, Supergirl is number one. Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway That would be perfect.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Thinking, Numbers, Perfect

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• Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway! That would be perfect.

  Adrianne Palicki

  Perfect, Would Be, Supergirl

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

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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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• I was a weird kid. I shouldve been gay because I listened to a lot of Broadway musicals. I dont know why Im not gay. I listen to a lot of jazz and world music, like African or Cuban music. Something that has vitality to it. A lot of the American stuff just feeds on itself.

  Frank Oz

  Kids, Gay, World

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• The next time The Oregonian runs a misleading headline saying that it's because of bike lanes that people aren't having their streets paved, I want all of you to march down Broadway and occupy The Oregonian!

  Steve Novick

  Running, People, Want

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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, Legends, Firsts

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• Broadway is one of the hardest things I've ever done.

  Ashanti

  Done, Hardest, Porch

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• I thought that jealousy was an idea. It isn't. It's a pain. But I didn't feel as they do in a Broadway melodrama. I didn't want to kill anybody. I just wanted to die.

  Floyd Dell

  Pain, Ideas, Justice

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• People sometimes forget how important #‎ Broadway is as a place for young actors to grow.

  Hunter Parrish

  People, Important, Actors

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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