Douglas Carter Beane Quotes

I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

A lot of people now don't know I've been on Broadway.

I was in California, and I was going to UCLA, and I knew I certainly didn't have movie star looks. I remember seeing pictures and photos of Ethel Merman and Mary Martin, who were kind of average looking. I said, 'Well, that's for me, then, to go back to New York and try to be in musical comedy on Broadway.'

I did fringe theatre for so many years, and then I got my first play at the RSC, which was an amazing feeling, but I was 30 and had started acting in my early twenties.

I love to sing! To be in a movie with musical number is the coolest thing ever!

It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'

My dream role would be anything where I get to tap-dance.

I didn't think it was my dream to be on Broadway; it just sort of became that, and then it just became me wanting it more and more and more.

I loved being on stage with heroes of mine, like Gregg Edelman and Jimmy Walton, and the lovely Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block.

I would love to be on Broadway. I would love to do a three-month run, similar to how celebrities do a three-month run on 'Chicago.' Something like that would be awesome. So, I'm putting it out there.

I want to be like Sutton Foster, Kristin Chenoweth or Anne Hathaway and do everything that has to do with performing.

I would love to do Broadway the rest of my life! Because it's challenging, because it makes me grow as an actor, as an entertainer, as an artist, and that's what I need; that's what I'm hooked on.

I always knew I wanted to be a performer.

I was the teenage kid growing up in New Jersey watching the Tony Awards and thinking, 'Oh, maybe if I'm lucky I'll make it to Broadway by the time I'm 40!'

As far back as I can remember, I wanted to dance, sing and perform.

I wanted to be a Broadway star.

I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge step.

Ever since I can remember, I've always wanted to be a performer - whether it was acting or singing or whatever.

I'm a theatre doll, and I've always - since I'm out of school - have always been on stage.

Performing on Broadway is an honor and a challenge for any artist.

I should be on Broadway. You have to sing, you have to dance, you have to speak well, and I'm good at all of those!

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

I did musical theatre for about four years. One time, I did six shows in one year whilst juggling school.

I'd like to be on Broadway for as long as possible.

All of a sudden, I was a young kid in my early 20s, and I had a couple of Broadway shows to my credit.