Jake Epstein Quotes

If you'd ever told me that my Broadway debut would be playing Spider-Man, I would have laughed in your face.

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

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

I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.

Cinderella is making her Broadway debut. It's an honor to step into that position and, in that way, I am creating a role because it's never been done on Broadway. I feel so honored.

My first big show in Denver was 'Ruthless! The Musical.' I played Tina Denmark at the Theatre on Broadway. It was my big break!

I was lucky enough to make my Broadway debut in 'Big River.'

I never thought my first role in a film would be a grandmother.

Making my Broadway debut was, in and of itself, just a dream come true. I've wanted to be on Broadway forever.

It would be fun to be eighty-five and have a Broadway debut. That's the goal I'm shooting for. When they revive 'Driving Miss Daisy' for the seven-hundredth time.

Lots of people are astounded that I was in the first cast of 'Les Miserables.' Possibly because I look so incredibly youthful.

I wouldn't consider myself a traditional sitcom actor or someone you'd even think would be in a sitcom.

As much as I love elements of Spider-Man's past, I don't really want to go back in and retell the Gwen Stacy and Green Goblin story in animation just so I can do my take on it. I don't want to redo the first 'Spider Slayer' story.

I'm making my Broadway musical debut at the age of 73 - it's a kind of interesting career arc.

So did my time on Broadway after the Xscape tour doing 'Chicago'. Performing eight times a week put in the mindset of being onstage again.

We couldn't even contemplate doing 'Hairspray' without a live audience.

I really didn't have any plan for her other than the henchgirl role, who was better at getting laughs out of the other gang members than the Joker was. I gave her the name Harley Quinn because I thought Harley was a fun name for a girl, and a lot of 'Batman' character names have a bit of a pun to them, like E Nygma.

I feel like what we've done in 'Homecoming' is really scratching the surface with Spider-Man.

When I started the 'Hellboy' series way back when, I wasn't really thinking consciously about the humor, but Hellboy does have my personality, and that's an important part of my personality.

Yes, I'd really love to get a chance to tread the boards in the West End, that would be incredible.

When I was ten, I did my first show. It was 'Annie.'

I usually played comic lovers or losers - weak, ineffectual men.

Spider-Man is such a whiny loser.

And Paul Moravec, not being a theater person, would always trust me when I said things that I am like, "you're going to need another 10 seconds of music year to get them across the stage." But I always knew that the people were going to be coming to hear his music of which my words are going to be a part. It was clear that he wanted to go and direction A., and I wanted to go and direction B. We would've gone and direction A. That's the most important piece of advice I can give to anybody who finds themselves in an opera, or musical comedy situation like that.

Just to get into a company like ABT is a dream come true, but to have all of these opportunities on top of it, I don't think it will hit me until I'm 70. I'll be like, "Oh, my god, remember that amazing life you had?" It's an incredible honor to be a part of something like ABT.