Quotes About Entertainment

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

From day one, musical theater was my bread and butter.

We don't make movies for critics. I've done four movies; there's millions upon millions upon millions of people who've paid to see them. Somebody likes them. My greatest joy is to sit anonymously in a dark theater and watch it with an audience, a paying audience.

You don't enter the theater and pay your money to be afraid. You enter the theater and pay your money to have the fears that are already in you when you go into a theater dealt with and put into a narrative.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part.

I always say film is art, theater is life and television is furniture.

When movies first came out, maybe they were in black and white and there wasn't any sound and people were saying the theater is still the place to be. But now movies and theater have found their own place in the world. They are each legitimate art forms.

I grew up doing musical theater.

I loved the movie theater, so I always saw a lot of movies.

The theater is so big and dark and private. Nobody knows that I am there. I am relaxed. I forget completely I am an actress. I laugh, I applaud, I cry.

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing.

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

The first perk of theater is the girls.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

The menu should be part of the entertainment, part of the dining experience. It's kind of like reading the 'Playbill' when you go to the theater. It should be an alluring and interactive document. Does it have burn marks on it from the candle? If you ever get a greasy menu with food stains on it, it's time to run like hell.

I can go to a movie theater and sit there all day. I love movies. They intrigue my brain and they relax me. I am a movie buff.

In the long period of time when I did talk shows and game shows, a whole new generation of people came along who thought of me as that, and not as a theater person.

I come from the theater, so I like it being: curtain up, this is what we want you to see, we have a reason for showing it to you, and then the curtain comes down, and that's it.

'Hamilton' is one of the best things I've ever seen on a stage, and for a guy who loves American history, hip-hop and theater, it was pure bliss.

I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater.

To me, theater is the mecca; if you really love to act, that's where it's the most fun, by a long shot.

The only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.