Broadway Theatre Quotes

• I do not like the Broadway theatre because it does not know how to say hello. The tone of voice is false, the mannerisms are false, the sex is false, ideal, the Hollywood world of perfection, the clean image, the well pressed clothes, the well scrubbed anus, odorless, inhuman, of the Hollywood actor, the Broadway star. And the terrible false dirt of Broadway, the lower depths in which the dirt is imitated, inaccurate.

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  Julian Beck

  Sex   Stars   Broadway Theatre  

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• It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

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  Tom Stoppard

  Broadway Theatre   Different   Littles  

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• I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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  Oscar Wilde

  Love   Funny   Life  

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.55, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• I am a Broadway theatre guy... so it was kind of my goal this year to come out to LA for pilot season and expand my horizons

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  Jeremy Jordan

  Years   Broadway Theatre   Goal  

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• I wanted to be a therapist if the acting didn't work. I also did a lot waitressing and odd jobs. I'd audition but couldn't get hired to save my life. I'd do Off-Broadway theatre and that was great and I was excited and thrilled, feeling like, 'Well, it's Off-Broadway, but there's still the Broadway in there.'

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  Jennifer Aniston

  Jobs   Broadway Theatre   Feelings  

  "Jennifer Aniston: I miss my Friends". Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. February 10, 2013.

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• 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.

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  Arthur Laurents

  Broadway Theatre   Play   Needs  

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• I coach young people. I have a group called BTP - Broadway Theatre Project.

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  Ben Vereen

  Broadway Theatre   People   Groups  

  "Ben Vereen: Usher’s Godfather Continues to Evolve". Interview with Greg Archer, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2012.

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• 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!

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  Elaine Paige

  Broadway Theatre   Long   Community  

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• Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

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  James Thurber

  Broadway Theatre   Superstitions   Theater  

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