Stephen Sondheim Quotes

My passion was to be on Broadway and to be part of this community because I saw what it was like from the outside as the young kid in and around New York, and I would see things like the 'Easter Bonnet' or 'Broadway Bares,' things I would sneak into.

I miss Broadway! I'm still a theatre kid, don't worry!

I have always loved Broadway.

When I was 12, I did this show on Broadway called 'High Society,' so we moved to New York for the run of that.

I love the way we do theatre in London: I love the fact that everybody is trained.

Los Angeles doesn't have as vital a theatre as New York does. And that's something that really interests me.

I want people to be obsessed with Broadway and theatre as much as I am.

I love going to Broadway shows.

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 first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.'

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

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

Initially, I wanted to be an ice skater, but then when I was 13 I saw Bye Bye Birdie, and that was it - I wanted to be on Broadway.

I see a ton of theatre whenever I'm not working to stay inspired. I love feeling like I'm a part of the theatre community and following the work of actors and writers I admire. I'm a big reader, too.

I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.

You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

I come from the theater and I plan to always do theater. So I don't really see myself not being able to act even if people don't think I am sexy enough for film at 40, I'll still be acting.

I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.

Broadway is really my life.

It's the coolest job to be on Broadway.

Broadway was always sort of my trajectory before I found film and television - that would be really tremendous.

To watch Lin Manuel Miranda... you could not make a better spokesperson for Broadway in a laboratory.

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.'

I wanted to get into theatre as I feel people take you more seriously than as a film actress.