Broadway Quotes

“I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason
Bringing something we must learn
And we are led to those who help us most to grow
If we let them and we help them in return.”
― Stephen Schwartz

“Look around, look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution

“Life doesn't discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints
It takes and it takes and it takes
And we keep living anyway
We rise and we fall and we break
And we make our mistakes”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

“The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.”
― John Lithgow

“The dumbing down of the country reflects itself on Broadway. The shows get dumber, and the public gets used to them. ”
― Stephen Sondheim

“And you find some way to survive
And you find out you don't have to be happy at all..
To be happy you're alive.”
― Brian Yorkey

“The Christmas trees are brought from Vermont by monosyllabic men in warm clothes; they seem alien, closer to the earth, silently contemptuous, like gypsies. They bring in their trees and stand them up on the pavements, so that swaths of Broadway are suddenly transformed into dark, pine-scented avenues.”
― Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore

“Rarely offstage, rarely on hiatus, Fiddler on the Roof has already been back on Broadway for four revivals, played London's West End four times, and remains among Broadway's longest-running shows ever.”
― Barbara Isenberg, Tradition!: The Highly Improbable, Ultimately Triumphant Broadway-to-Hollywood Story of Fiddler on the Roof, the World's Most Beloved Musical

“A new star has been born and Vera’s performance brings alive the desolate life of O’Neil’s young heroine in a natural talent that is so fresh and yet so ageless.”
― Rajiv Kapoor, Lights: Despair, Faith, and Hope on Broadway

“I hardly know her but whenever I see her I lose my mind. I know I should run away, but I can’t.

“That’s called sexual attraction, honey,” Max said. “It’s very nice. But be careful. It can burn you bad.

Believe me I know.”
― Vanda , Juliana

“There's only us. There's only this. Forget regret or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today”
― Rent

“Catch me I'm falling. Please hear me calling. Catch me before it's too late!”
― Brian Yorkey & Tom Kitt

“Rothstein worked with Park Avenue men as beards in the club-house, and with Broadway characters, such as Morris the Boob on The Lawn, and he probably bet away from the track, too.”
― Nick Tosches, King of the Jews

“When I talked with Patti LuPone at a San Francisco coffeehouse, she said "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" wasn't a showstopper originally. The role had a big impact on her stage persona. She says playgoers didn't make a distinction between Perón and LuPone (whose names even sound similar.),”
― Gerald Nachman, Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs

“When I talked with Patti LuPone at a San Francisco coffeehouse, she said "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" wasn't a showstopper originally. The role had a big impact on her stage persona. She says playgoers didn't make a distinction between Perón and LuPone (whose names even sound similar.). She believes that her tough-cookie reputation-enhanced years later after she snatched a smartphone out a playgoer's hand-is largely due to being Evita, whom she reluctantly tried out for Kevin Kline, then her boyfriend talked her into going for it”
― Gerald Nachman, Showstoppers!: The Surprising Backstage Stories of Broadway's Most Remarkable Songs

“And I audition and I see people in the waiting room. And I can’t help but think: there’s a very slim chance people like acting,' said Eden. 'It has too many other things. Attention. Escape. People. Spotlight. But the actual thing of acting, the kernel, has to belong to fewer people than there are actors in this city. They were kids lacking something at a young age and the splendid world of the theatre offered them that, but as soon as they found love, drama, stability, or attention from another source, they abandoned the Theatre. Imagine how sad that feels—to be abandoned. To be told you are loved, again and again, and then be told it was never the case.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“when he spit his meds into your mother's chinese vase. he called you sick. I tell him how it goes. I guess that makes me a god too.”
― Gabriel Ramírez, Dove with Hooves