Tom Stoppard Quotes

When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.

I am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.'

A lot of people live much more simply than in the old days. That doesn't bother me. Keeping busy is the problem. Television guest shot fees are going down. You can do a dozen guest shots a year, but you're not making that much money.

… perhaps we are awakening to the realization that if individuals can no longer patronize the arts in the way they did in the old days, we may come to a time where the public will undertake to do this for its own pleasure and profit.

I feel like 'Sweat' arrived on Broadway at the moment that it needed to. I feel like a commercial audience was not prepared for 'Ruined' or 'Intimate Apparel' for many different reasons.

Often, directors toss playwrights out of rehearsals.

My first role was on Broadway from 1963-64 in Chips With Everything.' It was very well reviewed but not very well attended.

The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.

I'll be straight with you. It's not easy to sell tickets in Vegas. I'm up against Celine Dion and Britney Spears.

I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club.

I used to clean the sets and serve tea to the artistes.

I've been really fortunate to do several shows on Broadway; the longest run I've done is nine months, and that was 'Porgy and Bess.' The shortest run I've done was about a month and a half: my first Broadway lead in 'The Scottsboro Boys.'

In theatre, there is a camaraderie that makes you believe you've been working with your co-actor for a long time.

After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street.

Live Nation is one of the most unique, exciting companies in the world and has remained at the forefront of the live entertainment industry by continuing to innovate and bring live entertainment to more fans around the globe.

Movies are made for people to pay and go see them.

I was an understudy in a show called 'One Over The Eight' with Kenneth Williams and Sheila Hancock.

On Broadway, you are working with some incredible people, and they have great reasons for doing things the way they do.

I love musicals, and I grew up with them, but the first time I thought I could really do this was when I saw 'In the Heights.'

Les Mis' was an amazing experience, to be in the original cast of 'Les Miserables,' and 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang' God bless it that was fantastic, at the London Palladium the biggest theatre in London the most successful show that has ever been at the London Palladium, that was fantastic.

WMR is wholly devoted to acquiring and exploiting rights. We're not a production company, and we're not a broadcaster.

I came from the theatre. I would prefer to spend more time there.

[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself.

It might have been really cool back in the '50s when it was less populated but I don't know.