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Movie Theater Quotes

When I am lonely for boys it's their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the the part of them I would like to possess.
- Margaret Atwood

I'm from Chicago, my family started a chain of movie theaters in Chicago that were around for 70 years and then one of them became the head of Paramount and the other was the head of production at MGM and we all came out of Chicago.
- Bob Balaban

I mean, the whole idea of movies was it was special to go to see - you went to a movie theater to see something that was magical and amazing, in a very special location.
- Bob Balaban

The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.
- Javier Bardem

I wasn't hanging around the movie theaters in New York where I grew up, a Manhattan brat.
- Peter Bart

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.
- Haruki Murakami

I don't know what it was, maybe the movie theaters in my immediate surrounding neighbourhood in Burbank, but I never saw what would be considered A movies.
- Tim Burton

I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed!
- James Caan

The original Mickey Mouse Club, established in the '30s, was designed to attract children to movie theaters.
- Annette Funicello

I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.
- Ayumi Hamasaki

Thirty years ago, we were in a movie theater and thought it was so cool because we were finally delivered from the horrors of stained glass and wooden pews.
- Bill Hybels

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.
- Michael Jackson

My dad had a movie theater so I was there every night.
- Brion James

And if I'd been a good boy that day, I'd get to eat Chlorella for dessert. Chlorella is condensed algae from Japan that looks like green hard candy pieces, about the size of Smarties, and I guess it could be considered candy, if you think beefing up broccoli on nutritional steroids, compressing it, and sneaking it into movie theaters is a good idea.
- Jarod Kintz

For our fourth date, I said I wanted Italian, and she said she wanted Chinese. We decided to compromise and meet at the movie theater after we'd both eaten.
- Jarod Kintz

I'm underwater on my mortgage, and I have a flooded movie theater for rent. Scuba tank and popcorn not included.
- Jarod Kintz

I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.
- Chris Kirkpatrick

Movie theaters still exist in spite of all of the alternatives that are available, video and video-on-demand and DVD and streaming video and all of these things.
- Leonard Maltin

Toward the end of school I started watching movies. Got a job in a movie theater in Brookline, Massachusetts.
- Jim Mckay

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.
- Will Oldham

I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.
- Sidney Poitier

My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.
- Franka Potente

For me, there is nothing more valuable than how people feel in a movie theater about a movie.
- Will Smith

A movie theater is Switzerland of the diet world.
- Lisa Scottoline

I got tackled once in a movie theater. I was with my mom and brother, and then suddenly I got hit from behind and sort of sprawled out on the candy counter.
- Scott Wolf

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