Jodi Benson Quotes

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

I was in the original cast of 'Wicked', and that got a bad review in 'The New York Times,' and it's the most successful thing that's ever been put onstage.

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.

I made my Broadway debut in the revival of Hair and followed it up with the bus and truck tour of Grease.

My first time ever on the Tony Awards was in 1984, the year of 'The Rink.'

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'

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.

A casting director who'd cast me in 'Assassins' sent a video to Kevin Reynolds, the director, and Mel Gibson, whose company is producing '187.' Then I went in and auditioned, and a few hours later, they called me.

When you do a voice in an animated film, you don't see the finished product at all. You're not animating. You're not doing the voice on the finished product. You're doing the voice long before.

I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway - maybe a musical, maybe my own show.

When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.

The dream is to originate a role in a show on Broadway. That's the ultimate goal.

I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.

Hollywood producers aren't going to say, 'Get me that swearing, grey-haired, headless chicken. We need him for our new 'High School Musical' movie!'

I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.

If a movie musical came along and the part was right and somebody wanted me to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat.

My first in, my first break, was I met a director and got to talking with her, and she happened to be casting this movie that she had written. That was ten years ago. That got me to Hollywood. I got paid $700 bucks.

I started off in musical theater, yeah. It was one of my first jobs; it was in Spring Awakening in London, which was amazing.

I have loved 'Les Miz' for so long. It was the first Broadway show I'd ever done.

I'm doing a new musical on Broadway, which opens in October called 'The Boy from Oz,' where I play Peter Allen. For those of you who don't know, he became first famous in America for marrying Liza Minelli.

I think the way it works is that when you're casting a movie, you usually want to work with people that you believe in.

Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.

'Miss Saigon' was my first professional show. It was one of the first regional productions of 'Miss Saigon.'

Hamilton was young, dashing, and romantic. He lent himself perfectly to be the star of a musical.