I could barely function as an adult; I slept through alarm clocks and lost train tickets mid-journey.
Anytime you put your name on a ticket with nothing else attached to it, that’s the true testament to where you are in your career – how many tickets are sold.
Farz’ proved to be a flop for the first 10 weeks. I remember buying tickets worth Rs 5000 myself, just so the film would run in theatres longer. And in the 11th week the film miraculously picked up and ran for 50 weeks!
You cannot stage plays to make money. That’s quite impossible until our people start spending more on tickets.
Back in those old days, I’d arrive by train or plane a day or two ahead of the team to promote the game. They’d take me to a hotel and I’d do interview after interview to try to drum up business and sell tickets.
If you want a good play and a show, you need time to prep for it. Artistes must be allowed to practice without being charged for the practice sessions. Let the auditorium charge for the tickets.
When I left to go into apprenticeship in 1949, it was only four years after the war, and people don’t realize, we still had tickets for butter, meat and so forth in France until 1947. It’s not like the end of the war, everything was plentiful – it wasn’t.
We should not judge law enforcement’s success by the number of tickets and arrests, but by the security and comfort the community feels in the public square.
I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.
In terms of the pricing of football tickets, there’s no need – given the massive amount of money that’s coming in now from television rights, there’s no need for them to be greedy. Look after the supporters; make sure they can still afford to go and watch football.
When it comes to women, there has been a tendency to define women in sports in the context of their relationships – they watch games because their husbands watch. They’re interested because their kids play a sport. They buy tickets to a sporting event because it’s a way to spend time with family.
I was in college starting in ’95, and ‘Rent’ was the only show I could see – because if you waited in line and camped out, you could try to get the lottery tickets.
If I’m appearing on ‘Raw,’ then I’m usually there to help sell tickets to something, and that’s when you see the ‘HBK’ Shawn Michaels come out. At panels, I can be more open and honest and show some more humility. They don’t want me talking about my family on TV, but I can in a panel setting.
Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it’s 22 years later, and they still haven’t lost their virginity.
Today I bought two lottery tickets, because I had a feeling that it would be now or never – they were both blanks. So I am not going to be rich after all. Nothing at all to be done about it.
You get weird, funny requests on Twitter. With our fan club, I was seeing a lot of fans were having some issue with the way the fan club tickets were being handled in one of the shows. So I was able to correspond with that fan, and be like, ‘Listen, we’ll be on it.’
I understand people who boo us. It’s like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you’re not, you have a right to complain.
If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.
Muhammad Ali wasn’t loved, people forget that, but people paid for tickets to see him fight. In retirement, he’s loved. As long as people are talking about you, that’s a good thing.
The biggest downside of L.A. is the traffic and parking tickets. They turn me into Michael Douglas in ‘Falling Down.’
I’ve always wanted to be an actor who connects with families because once they come to watch your film in the theatres, it becomes a big deal. That’s how you sell four tickets at one go.
Night tennis began at the United States Open in 1975 with certain stars trying to beg out and certain patrons trying to dump unwanted tickets on scalpers.
As a pro, in the beginning, I had to sell tickets to get paid. So you gotta be a hustler, and you gotta worry about fighting.
At the end of the day I’ll be able to keep everything that I really loved about my time with Disney. The friendships won’t be lost, nor will the free tickets to Disneyland, so I really can’t complain.
Rihanna can sell just as many tickets in Cape Town as she can in Detroit.
You don’t pay the same price for a Ferrari as you do for a Honda Accord. But for some reason, for movie tickets, you’re asked to pay the same price for ‘Avatar’ as you are for some $2 million movie, which is kind of a weird thing when you think about it.
The fans never gave up on CM Punk. If CM Punk wants to be part of ‘All In,’ he can be part of ‘All In.’ But I am not putting it on him to draw those 10,000 seats. If we did have CM Punk, we would not tell you we had CM Punk – unless we didn’t sell any tickets.
It’s hard to get concert tickets.
I don’t want to just sell out shows to young girls who like my movie franchise. I want to sell tickets because people respect me.
