Top 130 Theaters Quotes

‘The Fever’ is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would not perform it in theaters, because the character in the play says certain things that I meant.

The diversity of content is now offered from streaming and downloading, so young people are really not going to theaters because they don’t see any particular benefit.

There have been several television movies, ‘Carrie 2,’ two musicals! I remember thinking, the first time there was a musical on Broadway, ‘Oh my gosh! The people who ordinarily go to the theaters, that’s not really the audience.’

I used to live above Manganaro’s, when old Times Square was still peaking, and it still had a lot of diners and theaters on the forty deuce, as they used to call it. It was full of character. And it wasn’t Disneyland. Now it’s so touristy and full of bright lights, I can’t stand it. It’s like going to a big mall.

We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.

If I rewind back to that period, I was 8 in 1977 when ‘Star Wars’ was in theaters. I saved up money, or my parents got me the ‘Art of Star Wars’ book.

For a broad, star-powered picture like ‘The Interview,’ a big-tent release in 2,000 to 3,000 theaters is the top choice for a movie studio like Sony Pictures. It’s the difference between a $1 million and a $10 million box office total.

If what I’ve been told is true – and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with soldiers deployed in two theaters of war, has had multiple meetings with Dick Cheney, the former vice-president of the United States, to discuss Petraeus’s candidacy for the Republican nomination for the presidency.

I grew up in a town where there were no galleries, no museums, no theaters – a very religious, ultraconservative community.

I don’t really like doing big stand-up. Whenever I do theaters, I don’t like ’em. I don’t think they’re right for stand-up. I’ve seen people in theaters, and it just doesn’t work, because you’re talking to the guy next to you the whole time.

‘The One I Love’ came out in theaters for the enthusiasts and did a chunk of business on VOD. But when it started streaming on Netflix, it exploded. Same thing with ‘Safety Not Guaranteed.’

I wish, to be honest with you, for African American films that we could get a few more theaters. They only open them in 1500 to 2000 for an opening weekend, and how do you expect us to compete. How can we go to certain box office levels if they don’t give us more theaters?

It took Cianfrance 12 years to bring ‘Blue Valentine’ to the screen after he first conceived it. He found Gosling and Williams early on, and they hung in there with him. The film finally premiered at Sundance 2010, then screened at Cannes and the Toronto Film Festival before landing in theaters in December.

What we have in Mexico and Latin America is a wide diversity of voices, but in Mexico, for example, we haven’t been able to get a lot of the movies into theaters.

The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the ’30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.

That’s one of the great things about DVD: In addition to reaching people who didn’t catch the movie in theaters, you get to have this interaction of sorts.

We did a lot of stuff just in theaters and we started putting it on the Internet.

The great actors we had came from the actor-manager theaters. Not only did they create a team, they were the generals working with the soldiers.

There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

I don’t like going to movie theaters or festivals. I even get freaked out at other people’s shows.

Growing up, my best friend was the movie theaters. I’d go to the movies every week, multiple times a week, with my dad or alone.

I’m lucky because my repertoire is so specific, and theaters are interested in me singing my repertoire because it is not done so much. I’m pretty well settled in my repertoire. I like what I sing. My voice is high, and there is not much in baroque opera for higher tenor.

Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they’re opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.

I go a lot to see young people downtown in little theaters. It’s great. If you start somebody’s career, it’s so exciting.

Movies are getting more and more expensive to distribute. You need a lot of money to get people into theaters.

I saw some musicals at dinner theaters where I grew up. But I didn’t go to a big theater to see one until probably after I graduated from high school when I took myself to see ‘Tommy’ when it was on tour. I absolutely loved it.

I love the smaller clubs. I love the theaters. I love the festivals. There are things I don’t like. At certain theaters, people can’t get up and dance.

In Minneapolis, I learned that there are more theaters per square mile than in any U.S. city but New York, and we also had great Midwestern beef in our salads in a plaza overlooking the national headquarters of Target, Inc.

It was the money from ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Jaws’ that allowed the theaters to build their multiplexes, which allowed an opening up of screens.

I’ve worked in a few sort of ‘institutional’ theaters – the Royal Shakespeare, the National Theater in England – and they’re hopelessly top-heavy with bureaucracy.

I’ve been doing stand-up since I was 19. There have been times I’ve had to step away because of my schedule, but now I’m able to go out and do theaters and not smoky little bars.

There was a time in my life when I would literally go see every single film that came out in the theaters. No matter what. I just became obsessed with movies, and wound up getting drawn to the pulsating grain of film and the flickering of the light.

I saw ‘Infinity War’ in theaters four times.

Actors didn’t use to be celebrities. A hundred years ago, they put the theaters next to the brothels.

It’s not a great feeling for a film to suffer financially, but you can’t sit and mope about it. You just have to just move on to next project – I try to always be working on a new project when my last one hits the theaters.

Growing up, I thought it would be great if I could do big theaters. Now we’re doing arenas.

There’s an indie movie I did called ‘Fat Kid Rules the World,’ which was based on a teen book, and it’s a fabulous story, and hopefully it’ll go to theaters because it is an amazing story.

The Globe is a missing monument. There’s no existing example of a theater from Shakespeare’s time. You have Roman theaters, Greek theaters, all kinds of theaters, but none in which the plays of Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Marlowe were performed. Scholars feel that it would be of immense value to have one.

After high school I moved out and worked at pizza shops and movie theaters and moved to L.A. for a year and lived with my brother.

Our joy was to do theater. And in some theaters, the only pay we got was tokens for carfare.

In 1969 I was 16, and for me anything was possible. ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ was in theaters. Man’s future in space seemed limitless, and here on TV to punctuate it all were men walking on the moon.

I get to work a lot of times in nightclubs and large theaters, so I wanted to make music that is fun to perform in those settings. But I also wanted to contrast it with really serious, sincere ballads.

I think when I got drawn to film, I didn’t know it was a business. I mean, like most filmmakers, I probably saw more films than a lot of people when I was a kid. But I watched them on TV as well. I was no purist about it. I spent lots of time in movie theaters, but I also watched a lot of films on TV.

My goal was always to sell out theaters. When it happens you never expect it to be like it is, but you know it feels right.

I like doing theaters. I like being up close and personal with the fans. It’s really cool.

I’m hoping that word-of-mouth on the film – people seeing it and liking it – that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven’t seen the billboards or the posters or anything.

The idea of a film staying in theaters for a year is something of a fantasy today.

I just love doing movies that I would want to see in theaters.

I love being a troubadour. I travel around the world with my wife and play little theaters. We have a ball.

There’s something about the impact of a big screen that means something to me, even though I realize almost every film is fated to be seen for a year in theaters, and then forever after on television.

When the digital world is really here, movies can be disseminated from satellite direct to homes and direct to small theaters in Mongolia and northern Russia and obscure places that the market for movies is going to grow and grow and grow.