Quotes About Broadway

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.

Many years ago, when I was working on Broadway, I used to go to a drug rehabilitation centre on Sundays. I didn't lecture them against the perils of drug-taking; I gave them drama therapy.

I've seen Hugh Jackman in a thousand Broadway shows.

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

To be rapping in a musical on Broadway is just - that sentence doesn't make any sense in my brain.

I've never seen a theater community to rival that of Chicago. Neither New York nor L.A. has the raw talent or integrity that Chicago theater has, and I think it's because Chicago doesn't have Broadway or the film and TV business to distract it.

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

I don't want to miss out on my grandchildren and my daughter, and doing Broadway would do just that.

I did Chicago on Broadway the year before last. That was a great opportunity and I had a blast.

That's the great thing about how 'SVU' works. They work with so many Broadway actors, they are very used to getting us out in time for the show.

Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'

When I was growing up, there was no such thing as Off-Broadway. You either got your show on or you didn't.

I remember doing Broadway, I started Broadway in 2005, and, of course, I sing two songs in the play, 'Hairspray'.

I'd love to do Broadway. It's funny. I love it, but I've never actually seen an actual Broadway show, not even 'Hairspray.'

I did 'Eubie!' on Broadway with the Hines brothers, 'Comin' Uptown' with Gregory Hines, and then 'Hairspray.'

I absolutely loved my stint on Broadway in 'Hairspray.'

I saw 'Hairspray' at the Pantages in L.A. It came to the Pantages right before I did the movie, and just being in New York sometimes and seeing the marquees and everything like that, I'm like, 'I really, really have to go experience a Broadway play.'

I didn't have an agent until I got 'Hairspray.' I had to get a Broadway show without an agent to get an agent.

People forget that even the biggest hit shows, like 'Hamilton,' started off-Broadway.

I received the most fantastic welcome to the Broadway Theatre community. I walked on stage to tremendous applause and a long standing ovation, wondering when I was ever going to be able to say my first line!

It's interesting that the wondrous 'Hamilton,' which I could not be more ecstatic about, has taken a long time to perfect to bring it to Broadway. And it wouldn't have been possible if it was developed in the commercial theatre from the get-go.

I auditioned for the part of Cosette in 'Les Miserables' on Broadway. It didn't work out.

After 'Rent,' I tried to make a record, and it didn't work out, and it was the Broadway community that welcomed me back. It's where I feel the most understood, most at home.

Going to America is the best prize, so fingers crossed it will work out on Broadway.