Lisa Lampanelli Quotes

Now every club promoter wanna bid like auctions, cause I pack shows, sell ticks Celtics like Boston.

Long Island always seems to be the hardest place for some reason. There are always excuses. People will say, "Well, there's a lot to do in Long Island..." but you know what, if Jim Gaffigan was here, tickets would be gone a month ago, if Chelsea Handler was at the Barclays Center, gone.

The hard thing is getting people to come to the theater to see something, no matter if it's good or not.

It's hard to get concert tickets.

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

I don't hype a fight to sell tickets.

In my business, the cheaper the ticket price the better. I'd love for more consumers to walk into an amphitheater, park, have a beer and eat a hot dog. There's no advantage to me to have anything but sold-out shows.

I want to know that I am putting 30,000 individuals in seats in arenas. That's my goal.

I'm very impressed. All the crowds I've seen are very enthusiastic. It's not the first time every seat hasn't been sold at the Winter Olympics.

I always told Hitch that it would have been better to put seats around the set and sell tickets.

Almost every media organization is doing something with live events now, and that's because they feel they can break through that way.

You can work and scratch out a living in the theatre, but, if you want to make money, you've got to hit the road. You've got to play big houses of 2, 3 thousand seaters with your name above the bill, do popular fare and reach out to the audience such as it is.

I'm very much against the secondary ticket market. I don't know anyone who isn't.

One can do a film and not work for six months, but on TV, you have to produce good content every week. It involves a lot of hard work, as one has to fight for ratings every week. But I have always got love from the audiences, be it during 'The Great Laughter Challenge' or 'Comedy Circus.'

The demand for entertainment is insatiable.

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.

When I owned the theater, I had the Glen Miller Orchestra. I had 20 girls singing and dancing. I had a cast of characters. It was a big group production, as well as ushers, ticket takers.

People don't want to listen to a celebrity tweeting about their charities and shows. That's why comedy writers do well - we put out little funny ideas.

It's show business. No show, no business.

It’s a public event. We [television] should be covering it.

I care about the box office, so that's why I go from town to town: because I want people to see it. I would give it for free; I just want those houses full of people watching it.

You used to queue for three days and two nights for tickets for Rubinstein. People stayed in the queue for the whole day.

When you run the Walt Disney Co., you gain a fair amount of experience in customer-facing businesses, particularly in site-based entertainment. I have a lot of experience in marketing, a lot of experience in selling, particularly tickets to site-based entertainment or movies or whatever.

As a promoter, of course, you'd really want the people who pay for the tickets to come into your venue to really be even more connected with the band.

It's called show business for a reason. The theater owners want to make money, and understandably so.