Stephen Sondheim Quotes

Broadway isn't a very big career move. There's no money in it and it doesn't mean anything to your career. It's just a nice little jewel in the crown.

But I can't wait to watch the Tonys this Sunday. I'm really glad Broadway is doing so well this year, especially with its straight plays. It's been a wonderful year.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me.

I would love to work on Broadway, but I don't know that it would manifest itself in musical theater.... I have terrible stage fright that I'd have to get over.

I did my first Broadway show when I was nineteen years old - and to be able to say that I am still working with the incredible talents of all of the creative teams that I have been able to work with - that's so special to me.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

I don't make money on the road, and so there's less and less incentive for me to do it when I don't have that adolescent desire for whatever it is, glory or fame.

When I get older, I want to be a Kristin Chenoweth and Sutton Foster - you know how they do all of it? I just want to do anything that has to do with performing.

The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

In '75, the year both A Chorus Line and Chicago hit Broadway, my head spun around and I became the ultimate theater queen for life.

I was always daydreaming about singing in big productions on Broadway.

I wish I was more of a song-and-dance girl. I sang in a show once. I wish I could be in 'Hair.'

As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't enjoy that. It's not something you can attempt and achieve.

I'd been acting in Chicago since I came back after University, and I got a call from my agent saying, 'They're doing this revival of 'On a Clear Day,' and I actually auditioned when the team came through Chicago for the 'American Idiot' tour.

It's never been about making money.

I played more performances of 'Chris' in 'Miss Saigon' than anyone else.

I won the lottery. I don't care what it costs.

We're not making records for the fun of it; we're in it to make money.

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.

If I hadn't decided to be a fashion designer, I would have loved to be a Broadway showgirl or a Rockette!

I think coming East and doing something like Broadway would probably be a good career move.

People think I got rich out of 'Swan, but I didn't at all: it's the royalties from 'Oliver' and 'My Fair Lady' that have kept me going.