Quotes About Entertainment

All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.

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?

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

I hate it when theater people go on about professionalism - aren't they boring? I try to be as unprofessional as possible. And I'm a little bit politically incorrect.

At some point, when I was 14 or 15, the idea crossed my mind to become an actor... I hadn't been to the theater much... When I grew up, we had one TV channel, which was sufficient.

After 'Dexter' and 'La Lupe', I would love to return to theater. I'm just ready for more.

It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

When I am sitting in a movie theater with my girlfriends or boyfriend, I think how cool would it be to watch a movie with me in it.

Leisure time is when I'm not at the Booth Theater.

There's something terribly solitary about working in movies and television, and in New York, so much of the theater is showcasing.

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

No matter where you play, a stadium or an arena, when you're present on stage, it's going to feel like a theater.

I was kind of lucky that I had done so much theater over the years, because basically a sitcom is kind of like a hybrid between a film and a play.

Look at 'Batman' - that was theater of the absurd, as is 'Family Guy.'

When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!

The musical is the one area of the theater that can give you the biggest buzz of all.

I transitioned into theater and acting when I was about 9, community theater and musicals, being, like, chorus-kid-number-78 or whatever. But I just loved it. As a kid you just crave attention, and early on I just felt it was so cool and fun to play around and have people clap for me. But eventually I grew up and fell deeper into it.

Today's restaurant is theater on a grand scale.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.

We all need to go to good theater; that is what I believe will save it.

At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.