Success Quote by Ben Vereen

Vereen writes like a dancer talking to another dancer: encouragement delivered in motion, not in a lecture. “Dedicate yourself to your dream” sounds like standard backstage wisdom until the sentence pivots into something more theatrical and, frankly, more vulnerable: “if your dream should come my way one day.” He’s not promising mentorship or access. He’s admitting contingency. In a business built on auditions, timing, and luck, he can’t guarantee a door will open. What he can offer is readiness to meet you in the one place where effort and chance intersect: the stage.

The phrase “come my way” carries subtext about gatekeeping without naming it. Vereen, a Black performer who broke through in an era that offered fewer marquee roles and more scrutiny, knows careers are often routed through other people’s decisions. Yet he refuses the cynic’s conclusion. Instead of describing the industry as a rigged machine, he frames it as choreography: paths crossing, partners finding each other, the right cue arriving.

“Dance upon the boards of life” is the line that turns pep talk into worldview. “Boards” is old-stage slang, grounding the metaphor in literal wood underfoot. Life, in this framing, is performance not as fakery but as discipline: showing up, hitting marks, taking the fall, doing it again tomorrow. The intent is to give aspiration a physical form. Don’t just want it; train for it. And if fate and craft align, the reward isn’t fame. It’s communion - two artists sharing the same floor, briefly, at full power.