Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mary Martin

Miss Merman is a great broad...that is, she's a great Broadway star.

Toni Tennille

I'm not going to be rockin' n' rollin' when I'm 50 years old. But you can be in your prime on television, compose songs, or write a Broadway play when you're 50.

Dick Van Dyke

I got into a Broadway show before I ever sang and danced. I learned how after I got in the show.

Jay Johnson

I can't speak for all the puppets in my show but I'd be lying if I said that I wasn't looking forward to my spring Broadway debut, but we are all very excited to be playing the Hayes immediately after Sarah Jones' successful run there.

Sam Tsui

I was going to go to college and graduate and move to New York and do the Broadway thing. That's where a lot of my influences vocally and writing come from. Then I did some covers, and towards the end of college, I saw it was a path I could take. I wrote more pop music.

Jack Klugman

I was reluctant to take the TV role, ... How does a TV series follow a classic Broadway comedy?

Jillian Rose Reed

Singing is more of a hobby than really something I want to do for a career. But I love musical theater, so I'm hoping I can go back to it and do a role on Broadway for a few weeks. That would be a dream come true. My dream role would be Roxie in 'Chicago.'

Derek Hough

I'd like to do Broadway if the right project came along, but my mission in life is that I want to help change people's lives.

Tim Tompkins

Times Square itself is being prepared?much like a Broadway theater.

Alexandra Paul

My respect and empathy towards animals includes sea dwellers too--from dolphins to fish to lobsters. So, of course, I wouldn't dream of eating them.

Isabella Rossellini

I always dreamed when I was a little girl interested in animals that I would go live in Africa. Then I found out that you can look in your backyard, and you can do your own safari.

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Man dreams of fame while woman wakes to love.

Mary Kom

Like every other athlete, I always dreamt of playing at the Olympics, and it feels really good to see that dream materialize.

Wayne Barlow

Makes you feel like Elwood out of the movies. Just a dream come true to be able to have this thing, and be able to drive it around and watch people enjoy it.

Christine Anderson

Life ain't more than gameboard spaceWith hoops to jump and dreams to chaseAnd one day fate'll put us all in our placeGoing going goneAnd one day God might come on backWith a summer tan and a CadillacTime, he'll laugh, why I just lost trackWhat else could he really say?

James Blake

Last year, watching this on TV, this is kind of what I was dreaming of, playing a night match at the Open again,

Scott Clark

Many of these volunteers have come on their day off and on their free time to help make these kids dream come true in a day.

Caleb Dolan

So far we have kept the promise. But the dream isn't fully realized until the first group in 2009 heads off to college.

Richard Rogers

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed.

Richard P. Feynman

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

Robert Wilson

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Ron Wood

Jo left me a few months ago for 10 days. I get this note: I'll come back when the real Ronnie comes back.

Stuart Anderson

Like any other day, you feel like you leave a few out there. But any time you shoot 68 with a hole in one, you can't complain.

James Kilts

Mach3 will remain No. 1 for the first few years, but Fusion will become our flagship brand.

Kelly Martin

Magdalena's beatable, but they're tough. Our girls got stuck a few times, but they never gave up.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words. And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

David Margolick

Louis was a man of few words, ... And unfortunately most of the other guys were not great diarists.

Steve Mann

We have lived through two generations of customers. We need to promote the whole hobby of horticulture to young people today.

Carl J. Lindner, Jr.

My main hobby is working. I love what I do.

Brett Bailey

His No. 1 hobby in life was snowmobiling. He'd go home for the weekend and come back and say, 'I started the snowmobile,' and we'd say, 'but there's no snow!' and he would say he just wanted to smell the smoke.

Graeme Base

My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.

Jim Sullivan

I am a very lucky man. I am living my life with my hobby as my profession.

Iwan Rheon

I don't want to put any pressure on the music; it's my hobby and my release - a thing that I love.

John Campbell

We've been doing this for 10 years and it's been a hobby for a lot longer than it's been a job.

John Logsdon

I'm not sure this is a hobby for him. I think this is his next big idea.

Stephan Pastis

This is every creative person's dream - a hobby that I'm lucky enough to get paid for.

Josh Homme

Making people uncomfortable is one of my hobbies. I'm always hoping that half the people get the joke and the other half are the joke.

Augie Garrido

Let's not make it anything that it wasn't. I was just hoping he would do what he did. That's all.

David Baker

Last year we had about 160 people. This year, we're hoping for 200.

Jason Williams

Scoring is up around the NHL, so I'm not going to think too much about it. But it's obviously it's a milestone I was hoping to reach.

Tim Nelson

Maybe we did stop something from happening. I was hoping I was wrong, because being right -- we saw what being right was -- 9/11.

Dwight Tankersley

One of the things I'm hoping for next year is that this is a smooth transition.

Paul Giemza

Obviously you're disappointed when you lose to your rival. We're just hoping that our team can rebound (today) and play like we know we're capable.

Michael Hein

No one really wants to step up and tackle this. They're silent on the issue, hoping that it will go away. They're not accountable themselves, but they're enablers.

Alexander Silbiger

One would think that with what little time she had left she would want to do other things. She was hoping to be able to teach this year.

Richard Rogers

I love my job. What would I retire to?

Robin Chase

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

Robert Palmer

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

Robert Osborne

I love to be able to meet people who are successful, and I love them not because they're successful, but usually people who are successful have qualities that make them interesting to be around.

Malcolm McDowell

I've tried it all. I'd love to do radio plays. I think that one should be open to everything and shouldn't limit oneself.

Malin Akerman

I love when you get to work with people you know because there's so much more trust, and you're much more willing to be vulnerable in a scene with someone you trust.

Albert Schweitzer

Thinking about death... produces love for life. When we are familiar with death, we accept each week, each day, as a gift. Only if we are able thus to accept life bit by bit does it become precious.

Albert Schweitzer

Be faithful to your love and you mill be recompensed beyond measure.

Albert Schweitzer

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

Janice Stockigt

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Jason Moore

For your first musical in New York, to go to Broadway and be nominated for a Tony is a dream come true.

David Bowie

When the musical keyboard was created in the 1970's, you had electronic geeks that had no background in music created these devises and gave them to musicians that had no background in electronics. The result was some of the wierd sounds that came out in the '70s.

Rita Moreno

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

Joel Murray

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

Slash

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

David Gilmour

No-one can replace Richard Wright - he was my musical partner and my friend.

Nathan Lane

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Lin-Manuel Miranda

The musicals that leave us kind of staggering on our feet are the ones that really reach for a lot.

Julie Warner

Most actors in my position, at 47, you want your annuity show. You want your Marg Helgenberger role on 'CSI.' But that's like winning the lottery. So you try and keep yourself sane.

James Franco

My favorite role ever was Alien in 'Spring Breakers'.

Caroline Williams

Now we all know what our roles are now, each person. we're all working together better.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.

Marc Morial

She was singular in the role that she played, and she can't be replaced.

Philip Ruddock

I don't know that there is a role to look at departmental matters.

Ayumi Hamasaki

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

Tanya Fischer

I just want to keep at it. I can't wait to see, after years of being around, the roles I can play when I'm a crazy old lady.

Laura Osnes

That's the joy of getting to be an actor - getting to play all kinds of different roles and showing so many different sides of yourself.

Charles Olson

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

Elena Roger

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

Ahmet Ertegun

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Sam Elliott

She's an R&B singer, and she got back to singing and doing nice, pretty songs.

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Natalie Cole

I can laugh at myself because I've had to. Everything would have been much worse if I'd been the singing son of Nat 'King' Cole.

Chris Brown

I started when I was about 11, singing.

Bryn Terfel

I started singing because I come from Wales

Bryan Clay

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.