Local Entertainment Quotes

We didn't have the Grand Ole Opry or country radio stations in Nova Scotia when I was growing up.

When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.

I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.

My entertainment was going to the local dollar movie theatre on the weekend, where I watched old black and white movies. If you wanted current movies, you had to drive to the big city.

When I was in Lochgelly as a boy, I went to the cinema every night - and on Sundays, I used to go to Cowdenbeath and see something there.

To get to the only club in my area you had to cross a really busy road and my mother forbade me from going there.

Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it.

I always wanted to build something in Vegas, especially off The Strip. I know how it is for locals. They don't like going to The Strip for entertainment or even to eat.

We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.

Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.

I expected to be doing basement theater in the suburbs of Stockholm.

If there's a local reeling party, I might go to that.

Living in a small town you couldn't go anywhere on a Saturday where a store had the game on. If you were downtown you heard the game. If you were at the gas station you heard the game. I remember I would be mowing the lawn and I would stop for the Nebraska game. I would have it cranking outside.

If you're not in a major city, many bands don't come your way, and you have to really travel to see them.

I was never that kid who grew up in New York and was always at the arthouse watching important films. I was the kid who grew up in the Midwest where there weren't any art films, and I watched TV. And that was really the medium that affected me and that I fell in love with.

I could not pass up the opportunity to build and operate a casino next door to my hometown. This casino will be where Louisiana locals and Texans will want to play, stay, and enjoy themselves.

I grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas, and before the Internet and before everything, just to get anything interesting, you had to go on vacation to San Francisco or something. But I think when you're in the middle of America, you feel very jealous of not just comedy but music that you don't have access to.