Quotes About Entertainment

In Pakistan, our medium is the small screen. We don't make many films, and hardly have theaters. A majority of people seek entertainment while sitting at home and TV gives it to them, so we excel on that part.

I fall asleep in theaters, so I try to stay away from them.

You make more money in dinner theaters than on Broadway.

People are not coming into theaters to see movies. Audiences are making up their minds not to see films even before their release. It is a very sorry state of affairs.

I'd love to do a play eventually, if theaters ever open again.

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that.

I hate the idea of theatre just being an evening pastime. It should be emotionally and intellectually demanding. I love football. The level of analysis that you listen to on the terraces is astonishing. If people did that in the theatre... but they don't. They expect to sit back and not participate.

The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Theatre is immediate gratification.

Acting in the theatre is fun; acting in film is work.

I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to theatre, and if that child has a great experience at a pantomime they will continue to come year after year.

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.

You should always ask for a refund at the theatre, apart from my shows, of course, where I won't be handing out any refunds.

I recall the night that President McKinley died. I was working at the time at a theatre in St. Louis. The oppressive feeling was in the air. I could not make the people laugh.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as the audience. If I am entertained, they will be, too.

When people leave the theatre, they should remember a line, a character, a sequence or emotion. With entertainment, I want to give meaningful cinema.

If you're in a series, you can't quit, you can't work in the theatre and you can't do a movie when you like.

We should be proud in Britain that there's a massive crossover between theatre and TV.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.

The applause from the audience gives me a high. Probably that's what has kept my love for theatre intact.