Sammy Davis Jr. Quotes

Every actor tries to come to Broadway be it Richard Burton, Marlon Brando or Liz Taylor or Shirley McClain.

I spent 10 years in New York doing theater.

One day, I would like to be a part of a stage production, preferably a musical.

Sometimes it should be the job of Broadway to introduce stars as well as cast them.

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

As I've gotten older and I've watched people in productions, I go to the theater when I go back to London and see friends in Broadway, I think maybe there might come a time here to get back up there and prove oneself. It's just an itch; it's a nagging itch to go back there.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

I've done a lot of Broadway plays, and I'm fortunate they've all been so successful.

The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of that highest art in music or the drama which secures for the gifted artists a world-wide fame princes well might envy.

The truth is I love musical theater and always have.

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

People see a lot of huge stuff on Broadway, but there's always Off-Broadway energy and also shows that you can work in.

I came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!

I have always loved Broadway.

I'm a Broadway baby, through and through. It's my first love, and it's what brought me to New York in the first place.

I have done a lot of theater.

I love acting. I love singing. Eventually, I'd love to go on Broadway. I love New York so much.

The stage is near and dear to me.

I love the theater. I love being on stage; I love the live audience. I also love dressing up and all of the make-believe.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

I always joke around with my parents and say that if Hollywood doesn't work out I'll go to Broadway!

I'm an actor, coming from New York theater.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

I would like to play Broadway!

I started out doing theater in New York. I used to go to Shakespeare in the Park a lot.