Theater Success Quotes

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

After I won the Tony Award, the film floodgates opened, so I was like a kid in a candy store.

After 'Spelling Bee,' I started landing more jobs... I got 'Candide' at New York City Opera.

I'm proud of doing 'Long Day's Journey into Night,' for which I won an ACE award.

I found an agent midway through my year-long run at 'Grease' and just started to audition. I fortunately booked 'South Pacific' six months after 'Grease' was over, and I feel like that was a huge turning point in legitimizing myself in the Broadway community, and getting to do that was absolutely amazing.

I'd like to have one of my plays on Broadway.

The first big lead that I had on Broadway was in a show called La Strada.

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you're supposed to do - be truthful to scene - and if it's not funny, I'm telling you that no one's gonna care.

People forget that even the biggest hit shows, like 'Hamilton,' started off-Broadway.

I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want to kill themselves in the lobby. Now there must be four or five other steps, but that's the first.

Lemuel Ayers had had a huge success producing and designing Kiss Me, Kate. He wanted to produce this as a musical. I got the job. It was a professional score.

A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.

I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio. The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free. It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.

I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.

For a few years, there were three shows running on Broadway that I had all opened: 'Chicago,' 'Wicked' and 'Anything Goes.'

A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.

I am a lucky regional theater actor who happened to get a good role.

Film is much more of a brand business, whereas on Broadway, you can do complete unknowns and have hits.

All I ever wanted to do was bit parts on Broadway. I have more than achieved any goal that I aspired to.

I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.

In 1969, I wrote a musical called 'Mother Earth.' It was a rock musical with an ecology theme. We did it at the South Coast Repertory Theatre in Southern California where I was a member. It was a smash hit in this small theater.

I was in 27 Broadway plays, and three of them got the Pulitzer Prize.

So in case there was any doubt, I am here to report that having a play on Broadway does not suck.

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