Brian Stokes Mitchell Quotes

When I did 'Grease,' I took good care of myself. I treated it like a job. I approached it very professionally because I wanted to make a good reputation and hopefully continue on in the Broadway community and continue to do shows.

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.

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

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.

When I moved to New York, I wanted to be in the ensemble of 'Hairspray.' That was my goal.

I did 'Spring Awakening' on Broadway for about three years, and I did over 500 performances.

I danced in choruses from about 1959 to 1967, in 'Take Me Along,' 'Wildcat,' and 'Subways Are for Sleeping.'

That whole world of musical theater was my first love. It's where I wanted to be when I was three years old.

That's my dream: one day, I want to standing on the stage on Broadway. I sing; my dancing is terrible, but I can be trained. That's my dream. That's something I really want to work on.

I always thought moving to New York would mean starting over in theater, because I had great work in Chicago and didn't want to become a waitress here.

I got started as an actress doing musical theater, and I always loved 'Grease' and 'West Side Story,' and all those kind of movies.

If I had my druthers, I would do only stage work.

When I moved to New York City in 1965, I wanted to be in theater. I was following my Ethel Barrymore dream. But I was too young to be Ethel.

I want to be in 'Funny Girl.' And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really challenged beyond anything I could have imagined.

I really loved to sing all the time, and I was constantly entertaining. Finally, my dad saw an article in the local newspaper in Phoenix, and it was for a children's theater, an audition for 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'

I wanna do Broadway one day in New York. That would be an ultimate dream of mine.

I started at home as a kid putting on shows and lip-syncing Michael Jackson for the grown-ups. Then, in musicals and plays in school. At 17, I was performing in coffee shops and in parking lots at Phish shows. At 18, I had a band that played local shows in the Northwest.

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

I'm a musical theater guy. That's where I came from. That's where I go whenever I have the chance. It's my first love.

I would like to play Broadway!

I'd love to do something on Broadway. I'd love to spend some time in New York.

Broadway has always been a dream of mine.

I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'