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Quotes About Booking

I didn't have an agent before 'Parks,' and once you're on a show, they're not going to make money off of you. So if you've already booked something without an agent, unless they really want to hustle during the downtime, there's seven months when they're not going to make money off of you.
~ Retta
When we'd suggested doing it, the Theatre Royal management had said, 'Nobody wants to see Waiting for Godot.' As it happened, every single ticket was booked for every single performance, and this confirmation that our judgment was right was sweet. Audiences came to us from all over the world. It was amazing.
~ Ian Mckellen
In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.
~ Norman Wisdom
I was doing television and films for a good five years, and then I booked 'Cry-Baby.'
~ James Snyder
I want to build a brand for myself and get booked for being me, while others will get booked for being them.
~ Devon Windsor
People try and make it a big deal, but a show's a show, work's work, if you haven't wrestled in New York in a couple months, it's always good to take a booking there because there's a lot of great wrestling fans up there.
~ Matt Sydal
It really hurt my heart because 'WWE Fastlane' was in Cleveland, Ohio and I was on the road shows on Friday and Saturday, and then Cleveland was my hometown and we had 'Fastlane' there and I looked on my travel app and it said: Friday booked, Saturday booked and then Sunday not booked and I was like, you have got to be kidding me?
~ Dana Brooke
We did wanna change the name. We were actually putting names in a hat. It was the people making an income off Motley Crue that talked us out of it. The booking agent was getting them between a half a million and a million dollars a show as Motley Crue. Then there was the manager who got 10 to 15 percent off Motley Crue.
~ John Corabi
I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.
~ Mary Lou Williams
If you're not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation.
~ Carla Hall
Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.
~ Joel McHale
He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.
~ Alex Ferguson
The only airline I avoid like the plague is Ryanair. I don't like that, when you book, there are then all of these little extras to pay for, and you end up paying more than just flying with British Airways.
~ Eddie the Eagle
I went to a few really bad commercial auditions because I needed the money, and when you booked a commercial, your life was made: you could eat.
~ Elizabeth Banks
For me specifically, after travelling around the world I noticed that performers who had web shows had huge international popularity and that segued into a lot of events reaching out to book them.
~ Shangela
In L.A., if you're in improv, and you're on those stages, all the big agents and managers and producers are watching those shows. They're not flying to Chicago to see the show. People are booking jobs off the stages in L.A. who aren't more talented than the guys in Chicago. But the most guys book out of L.A., and the second is New York.
~ Jake Johnson
while the man form Orange County booked the room.
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
~ Edgar Bergen
I decided we should book ourselves, so I started booking the band.
~ Ruben Blades
His job was to take the boat down the Mississippi, booking the show and renting show grounds along the way. The idea was to earn money on the trip south, arriving in New Orleans in time to open just before Christmas and play through the spring. Haslam, though
~ Robert A. Carter
What has happened to the good old-fashioned travel agent? I want to go to a really posh travel agent and have them organise everything for me. I don't want to do things on the Internet.
~ Jenny Eclair
One of those who canceled citing illness was Lady Cosmo Duff-Gordon, a fashion designer who had survived the sinking of the Titanic. Another designer, Philip Mangone, canceled for unspecified reasons. Years later he would find himself aboard the airship Hindenburg, on its fatal last flight; he survived, albeit badly burned. Otherwise, the Lusitania was heavily booked, especially in the lesser classes.
~ Erik Larson
Do you think all these people would be booking passage on the Lusitania if they thought she could be caught by a German submarine? Why it's the best joke I've heard in many days, this talk of torpedoing the Lusitania.' Both Vanderbilt and Turner laughed.
~ Erik Larson
The mission of Booking is to empower people to experience the world. Whatever people want to do, wherever they want to go, they can book it with us.
~ Gillian Tans