Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

#1

Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/8/08 at 10:27pm

What are some of your favorite serious quote from a Broaday Show,Actor,Song,etc.

Mine is from Company "There is a time to come to New York and there is a time to leave.

#2

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/8/08 at 10:53pm

the choice may have been mistaken the choosing was not, you've got to move on

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anything you do, let it come from you, and it will be new

-sunday in the park with george

sondheim is ~deep~ like that

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Nancy Reagan, meanest and thinnest of the first ladies moves into the white house. Yabba dabba! It's the eighties.

Updated On: 9/8/08 at 10:53 PM

#3

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/8/08 at 11:10pm

Let's get this over with and get to the bar.

~Elaine Stritch

#4

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/8/08 at 11:18pm

ucjrdude902, that new york quote is my favorate sondheim quote, possibly the best theatre quote ever!

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I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"

#5

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/8/08 at 11:20pm

"When you know you can't have what you want,
Where's the profit in wishing?"

#6

Posted: 9/8/08 at 11:44pm

Updated On: 5/1/09 at 11:44 PM

#7

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/8/08 at 11:46pm

Don't wish,don't start,wishing only wounds the heart.

Edited to say my quote is from Wicked.

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Don't believe everything that you hear! Only the peeps involved know the truth!

Updated On: 9/9/08 at 11:46 PM

#8

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 12:32am

"Wishes come true, not free"

Into the Woods.

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I? I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

#9

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 8:06am

"Where it's 100 in the shade but with patience and faith we remain unafraid."---In The Heights.

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"Everytime you step on that stage it is somebody's first Broadway show and somebody's last Broadway show. Make it count."

Updated On: 9/9/08 at 08:06 AM

#10

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 8:08am

If people want to include the show they're quoting from, that would be helpful.

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"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

#11

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 8:20am

Wear your hair down and a flower
don't use makeup
dress in white
she'll grow older by the hour
and be hopelessly shattered by Saturday night

Sondheim, again, A Weekend in the Country A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

And, see my sig vvvvvv

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Updated On: 9/9/08 at 08:20 AM

#12

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 9:03am

"White: a blank page or canvas. His favorite--so many possibilities." - SITPWG

"You've got to have a dream--if you don't have dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?" - South Pacific

#13

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 9:18am

I think the entire song is pretty deep, but especially the last verse:
"It's the fragment, not the day.
It's the pebble, not the stream.
It's the ripple, not the sea
That is happening.
Not the building but the beam,
Not the garden but the stone,
Only cups of tea
And history
And someone in a tree."
-Someone in a Tree, Pacific Overtures

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When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

#14

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 9:26am

Sondheim alone is a goldmine of deep and serious quotable quotes.

My two person favorites are:

"I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right"

"Let them curse me to hell, Leave it to history to tell, What I did, I did well, And I did it for my country"

#15

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 9:47am

What shows are they from?

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"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad

"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)

#16

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 9:50am

Urban's 2nd is from Assassins.

Also, some of y'all might want to stop attributing some of these quotes to Sondheim when they were written by his bookwriters.

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#17

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 10:15am

If you know what you want, then you go and you find it and you get it. (Sondheim, Into the Woods)

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"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

#18

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 10:20am

The first was ITWs (the Witch) and the second, as shesamarshmellow said, was Assassins.

I figure both where Sondheim and not a book-writer only because they are actual lyrics from songs (Last Midnight & Ballad of John Wilkes Booth)

#19

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 10:25am

"you're so nice,
you're not good,
you're not bad,you're just nice.
I'm not good, I'm not nice,
I'm just right."

-Into the Woods

Updated On: 9/9/08 at 10:25 AM

#20

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 10:33am

I think shesamarshmallow was referring to some of the Company quotes, which would be George Furth's.

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When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

#21

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/9/08 at 10:50am

Look I made a hat, where there never was a hat. - Sunday in the Park

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"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

#22

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/10/08 at 12:03am

"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -- Little Fish

#23

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/10/08 at 12:56am

"Listen, nobody got into this business to play it safe. And we're all here because we wanted to be and you're all acting like it's another job - but it's not"
~ Diana Morales, "A Chorus Line"

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#24

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/10/08 at 1:29am

I have a fiew faves.

"I was born to soon and started to late" Gypsy

"With what I have in me, I could've been better than any of you! With what I got in me-what I been holding down inside of me-if I ever let it out, there woulden't be signs big enough! There wouldn't lights bright enough" Gypsy

And of corse

"MOO MOO MOO MOO" Gypsy

Updated On: 9/10/08 at 01:29 AM

#25

re: Deep and Serious Broadway Quotes

Posted: 9/10/08 at 1:51am

Pretty much the entire "Passing Strange" CD.