Tyler Perry Quotes

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

I don't think musicals are my thing. I'm not a big fan. Definitely have to get on the stage and do something like a straight play.

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

Being in front of a live audience again. I get that in my concerts but there's nothing like being on Broadway.

I'm a theater guy at heart; I love the theater. I was lucky enough to spend a good decade and a half in the New York theater community.

I was one of those people who watched and videotaped the Tonys every year and kept a highlight reel every year. I saw every Broadway show as a kid.

I would love to do Broadway. I dont think theres anything more amazing than theater. OK, Supergirl is number one. Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway That would be perfect.

Pippin had an opening number called "Magic to Do," and Jules Fisher, the brilliant lighting designer lit it. Tony Walton did all of the sets. As a kid I thought, "Wow, I'm seeing onstage what a MGM musical would look like live." It was that good, and it was directed by Bob Fosse.

I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage.

I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.

I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.

The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.

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 a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

I'm not really into musicals.

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

I played sports, I did all that, but I was a theater kid.

I'm convinced whenever something opens on Broadway, it's a miracle. It's a miracle that people survived.

I'm a super theater nerd.

I didn't see any Broadway till I was in my late twenties.

There is really nothing like seeing a live stage performance.

We have some extremely talented people that we've ripped off the Broadway stage. It's awe-inspiring how talented they are, and how can-do they are. They're at that stage of life where it's like, "Yeah, let's put on a show!" That's really fun to watch.

The musical is amazing. i mean,i don't throw around that word very often unless im talking about myself. Being humble is one of my many fine qualities. IGN Interview May 2009