Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erich Bergen

I saw my first Broadway show when I was 10 years old. I saw 'Big: The Musical' and I remember going out to dinner with my mom afterward and reading the souvenir program like crazy!

Jenna Ushkowitz

When I was on Broadway when I was little, I remember always driving through Times Square with my dad to the theater. Now when I go back, you can't even drive on Broadway in the 40s. New Times Square is too touristy to me.

Jamie Farr

I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.

Jamie Farr

I'd like to create a role on Broadway. That would really heighten my senses.

Laura Osnes

When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.

Ariana Grande

I love musicals and I love Broadway.

Arthur Laurents

We have a desperate need for producers in the [commercial Broadway] theatre, and it is very hard for them to get money and find investors for new plays.

Audra McDonald

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

Ashanti

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

Trey Parker

I was a big Broadway fan for a while.

Ann Rule

For a while, people couldn't understand why I'd find them so fascinating, but I'd rather go to a trial than to a Broadway play. Now that we have Court TV, they see what I mean.

Derek Hough

I'd like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change people's lives.

Times Square itself is being prepared?much like a Broadway theater.

Oriana Fallaci

What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.

Vinny Guadagnino

I made my drama teacher cry. I only took drama to get out of writing papers in English and the teacher was this thespian Broadway geek and here I was this Italian guy from Staten Island and I would put her in tears.

Nikki Blonsky

I remember seeing 'Hairspray' when I was 15, and it is such a luxury to be able to see a Broadway show, and it is so hard to do if you don't live in New York - plus, it can be expensive to go to the theatre all the time, too.

Laura Bell Bundy

I dropped the 'Bundy' with my country music because I wanted it to be two separate things: There's me as a songwriter and a country singer, and there's me as a Broadway performer.

Laura Bell Bundy

There is definitely that thing here a little where people are like 'Oh that Broadway girl has come to Nashville' and I'm like 'Listen you guys, I was singing country before I even got a Broadway show. And I'm from Kentucky.'

Carolyn Maloney

Our Broadway shows are closing, our restaurants are empty, our hotels are vacant, ... We really need help.

Suzan-Lori Parks

My plays aren't stylistically the same. Just being an African-American woman playwright on Broadway is experimental.

Max von Essen

My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.

Rocco Landesman

Jed Bernstein leaves a completely different League than he found when he took this job 10 years ago. The transformation he has engineered is truly remarkable. What we now know as the Broadway Brand, with its numerous new programs, sponsorships, and greatly expanded public profile, is largely Jed's creation. We will miss him.

It is just like a regular Broadway musical review.

David Alan Basche

I watched Mark Rylance in the Broadway revival of 'La Bete,' and it knocked my socks off. The complete commitment, passion, and unbridled enjoyment in every moment of what he was doing was overwhelming.

Jimmy Fallon

L.A., it's nice, but I think of sunshine and people on rollerblades eating sushi. New York, I think of nighttime, I think of Times Square and Broadway and nightlife and the city that never sleeps.

Alice Barrett

I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have.

Clay Aiken

I had the greatest time on Broadway and made friends I never expected to make!

Daniel Radcliffe

I would like to initiate an initiative - the Broadway Annoying Audience Member Relocation Programme.

Damian McGinty

I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.

Singing is more of a hobby than really something I want to do for a career. But I love musical theater, so I'm hoping I can go back to it and do a role on Broadway for a few weeks. That would be a dream come true. My dream role would be Roxie in 'Chicago.'

Mary Martin

Miss Merman is a great broad...that is, she's a great Broadway star.

Toni Tennille

I'm not going to be rockin' n' rollin' when I'm 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you're 50.

Dick Van Dyke

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.