“My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came o...” — Kirk Douglas Quote

My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to Broadway and a friend of mine, Lauren Bacall, was in Hollywood filming with Humphrey Bogart. She told one of her producers I was great in my play, and he saw it and cast me in 'The Strange Love of Martha Ivers'.

No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

If you want to know about a man you can find out an awful lot by looking at who he married.

If I have to speak in public, I am terrified.

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

There's been a time where I was like, I wanna be a folk singer; no, I wanna sing soul. I want to sing classical music. I want to sing R&B. I want to be on Broadway. I just wanna sing. Whatever comes out of my mouth, that's what I want to do.

I moved to New York after college. I wanted to pursue acting and theater, and I started doing more on-camera stuff - that was around the time that Katie Holmes actually was in 'Chicago' on Broadway.

Writing a play to get to Broadway and have a national tour is a sure way to write a terrible, terrible play.