Broadway Quotes - Page 8

When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you're showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.

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

I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in Hairspray.

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

I'm excited to flex my Broadway muscles - it keeps you alive as an actor.

[Vincent Price] did Oscar Wilde on Broadway, and I think he probably did it because he was almost like an Oscar Wilde. He had that brilliant humor.

I am a collector of many things, but I particularly love the sterling silver mint julep cups, each engraved with the titles of the Broadway shows in which I appeared.

I did a great show Off-Broadway called Leave It To Beaver Is Dead that was at the Public Theater in New York. It was written by Des McAnuff, who's an illustrious director now, and it starred... Well, I was in it, Mandy Patinkin, Dianne Wiest, Saul Rubinek, and Maury Chaykin. It was an amazing show. But it was definitely ahead of its time, and people didn't quite get it.

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.

We do have American Idiot picked up by HBO and I wrote the record and concept to it. [We have] the writer Rolin Jones and [director] Michael Mayer [who also directed the Broadway production], so we'll see what happens.

I played St. Jimmy on Broadway I sort of caught the acting bug. But I didn't want to go full-bore into it because I have a lot to learn.

Broadway's not what it used to be.

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.

When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.

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.

I love musicals and I love Broadway.

A lot of high school students on TV and in Broadway are played by people in their late 20s and even early 30s. That seems weird to me.

At a very early age I knew I wanted to be an actor and then more specifically that I wanted to be on Broadway and be in musicals.

I feel like being on Broadway will convince my mother that my theater degree was worth it.

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.

I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.

When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.

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

Obviously I love working in film and television, but I started in theater and I'd love to be on Broadway.

I remember the first time I saw a Broadway show and how excited I was. That really fuels me and for some, it's the first time they have seen Aladdin.