“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.” MomentsLightMysteryBiggerTheaterBoxesExcitedMovie Theater Author:J. J. Abrams
“The audience that storms the box-office of the theater to gain entrance to a sensational show is small and sleepy compared with the throng that crashes the courthouse door when something concerning real life and death is to be laid bare to the public.” RealShowsAudienceDoorsOfficeGainsTheaterBoxesStormReal LifeLife And DeathCrashEntrancesSleepyBox OfficeSensationalCourthouses Author:Clarence Darrow
“I was about 16 years old years when my father took me to a square dance festival in North Carolina. For the first time in my life, I found there was music in my country that you never heard on the radio, and you didn't hear on the juke boxes, and in theaters. I fell in love with it, especially the long-necked banjos.” YearsFirstsLongCountryFoundFatherHeardFirst TimeTheaterRadioBoxesSquaresFestivalsCarolinaNorth CarolinaBanjosOld Year Author:Pete Seeger
“My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.” FirstsShowsSchoolBlackTeamMembersHigh SchoolFirst TimeProgramTheaterBoxesPerformingDividedTicketsBasementsRecyclingBlack Boxes Author:Joe Mande
“Especially for people who are unknown, it's easier to get a TV show because you don't have to put a certain amount of people in movie theaters for a box office weekend. It's really difficult to get a great lead role in some big film, if nobody knows you.” PeopleIfsKnowsShowsBigsFilmCertainDifficultRolesTvsAmountEasierOfficeTheaterBoxesWeekendTv ShowsNobody KnowsBox OfficeMovie Theater Author:Eve Hewson
“Some people that work for Hot Pockets came to my Denver Paramount Theater show. They brought these hot pocket boxes the size of suit cases for me to sign. I wrote "these are WMD's" on the boxes. The HP people seem to have a good sense of humor about all of it.” PeopleShowsSeemsCasesTheaterHotSizeBoxesSuitsPocketsSense Of HumorGood SenseParamountWmdDenverGood Sense Of Humor Author:Jim Gaffigan
“So what 'Twilight' does is show how women/girls can drive box office and they can support a tent pole movie. They're an extremely passionate fan base. This coincided with the 13 year old boys starting to stay home and play video games and work on their home media stuff. They're no longer going to theaters in droves.” YearsDoePlayShowsHomeGirlGamesStuffBoysSupportFansMediaOfficeTheaterStartingPassionateBoxesVideoTwilightTentsBox Office Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.” KnowsWayDoneCoursesLanguageWaitingAnswersRoomsListeningOfficeWasteStandingTheaterTrainBoxesSpendingSeatsBuyingChairsSundayAfternoonRoutesLecturesConvenientDentistUneasyBox OfficeBalconiesWaiting RoomsQueriesSunday AfternoonsLining Up Book:The Plague Source: The Plague
“D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind of rather repugnant artificial triangle, thereby stifling the whole of sexuality as a production of desire so as to recast it along entirely different lines, making of it a ‘dirty little secret’, a dirty little family secret, a private theater rather than the fantastic factory of nature and production” KindLittlesDifferentWholeDesireLinesSecretTheaterProductionsBoxesSexualityImpressionFantasticDirtyFactoriesArtificialBizarrePsychoanalysisBourgeoisTrianglesStiflingMotifs Author:Gilles Deleuze
“Almost said 'theater'! But I know the blacks don't go! Unless it's that My Arms Are Too Short To Box With God production. Or The Wiz.” KnowsSaidArmsTheaterProductionsBoxesToo ShortWiz Author:Jimmy Pardo