Theater Business Quotes

I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.

And so I've always been fascinated by the technical end of theater, and a lot of my closest friends are not actors, but in the other end of the business.

Theater doesn't bring money in general. That's not why you do it. If you go into theater for money then you've really gone into the wrong business.

They want families to come to New York and go to the theater, so the theater is all geared toward family entertainment. It's money, you know.

My degree was in theater administration. So I can sell the hell out of a ticket at the box office.

I do believe if we opened up a comedy theater in a city, that we're going to be able to teach improv better than whoever's there already. In general, I think I could say that.

The National Association of Theater Concessionaires reported that in 1986, 60% of all candy sold in movie theaters was sold to Roger Ebert.

Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.

I think there's this idea that if we put up a play with all African-Americans or all Latinas, or even if we mix it up, then it won't really sell to a mainstream audience. At the end of the day, what's going to drive the story being told is what's going to drive people to the seats.

Theatrical success is predominantly two variables: who the distributor is and how much money they spend.

the theater is the only money-making business I know in which haste apparently rules from first to last.

I'm delighted that 'The Sound of Music' is doing so well. Of course, it's an infallible piece of material. Even when second- and third-rate road companies were doing the play, they did enormous business.

I've been doing theaters like the Warner for about a year and we've found the earlier you get the tickets on sale the better idea you get on how many shows we will be doing.

I'm not responsible for the commercialization. The people who produce the plays are responsible for it.

Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.

The theater business has allowed me, in a way the movie and TV business has not, to do very, very interesting work. So that's what I do.

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

I started out years ago as a theater major and got disillusioned with it. It's a rough business.