Theater Attendance Quotes

Macbeth is a very popular play with audiences. If you want to sell out a theater, just mount a production of Macbeth. It's a short play, it's an exciting play, it's easy to understand, and it attracts great acting.

When I play in Atlantic City, I perform Tuesdays through Sundays for two weeks, and I have 91-percent attendance. No one else plays six days a week, two shows per night, and does that kind of business.

If based on popularity, people will come to theaters because of my name, then I would be very happy, but it isn't about Daisy, it is about the director and the film and the co-actors.

I don't go to that many Broadway shows, so I can't really say anything.

If you really want to help the American theater, don't be an actress, dahling. Be an audience.

I enjoy going back to work now because cinema is going through an exciting period because young people are now going back to the movie theaters. But things are different though.

The industry has to have the audience in order to make these films. So it's a serious thing - how do you get people to leave their houses and go to the theater?

Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.

Women watch plenty of television and theater. They're consumers, like everybody else. I think people don't thinking women go to the movies is a thing that still has to be addressed and changed.

Unfortunately, because the theater is always a poor relation when it comes to making the nut, it's not easy to get the audience in to see a play, unless you have a name that is recognizable, that the audience wants to see and is prepared to pay the $125 to see.

All I know is that as an audience member, I am less and less inclined to go to the theater.

I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot of sports.

It's unfortunate that it's not realistic that you can get people to come to a movie theater not knowing anything about the movie.

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

Theater has always been something that I've had an interest in, but I was never a devoted fanatic theater-goer.

Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

I really like reaching out and seeing the audience - they're potential audiences! And on occasion I can make them excited about going to the theater again, if they've ceased or gone less.

The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

I have been to the theater more since I have lived in New York than I ever really did in London working on a television show.

Let a single complete action, in one place and one day, keep the theatre packed to the last.

If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.

The filmmakers aren't running the studios anymore. Sometimes people who like films are making them, but by and large, they have to go report quarterly earnings and all that stuff. The competition is so huge that it's very hard to get people to show up to see any movie in the theater, much less an original one that isn't a version of something else they saw.

People ask me all the time what it is about Australia that produces so many big stars. Honestly, I believe it is a combination of things. Our education standards are quite high, but our industry is very limited. Yet we're very aware of the industry - everyone goes to the theater, sees TV shows.

I go to the theater, all the time. I'm not one of these secret movie, watch a 35mm print in my living the weekend it comes out guys. I'm not Jon Bon Jovi. I go to the Arclight, like a regular asshole.