A poster typically refers to a large printed picture or notice used for decoration or information display. Posters can be found in various settings such as public spaces, classrooms, bedrooms, and offices. They often feature illustrations, photographs, or text, and are commonly used for advertising, promoting events, conveying information, or as decorative items.
Poster Quotes
1. “I never really had a celebrity crush when I was little. I know some of my friends have posters up on their bedroom wall; I was never really about that.”
— Sadie Sink
2. “It doesn’t matter how tired I am; I will always still be happy. As soon as you go onstage, you get adrenaline. You hear the crowd: they’re screaming your name. They have posters. The energy gives you energy.”
— Martin Garrix
3. “We had incense and rock’n’roll posters, and we sold records and rolling papers. People could just, like, hang out. We had a cool vibe going.”
— Tommy Hilfiger
4. “I’ve been a printmaker and designed objects. I’ve done 500 posters.”
— Milton Glaser
5. “I would be delighted to show my film in the Viennale. I do not offer press kits. I do not offer stills. I do not offer screeners. I do not offer DVD’s. I do not offer posters. I require a first-class flight to bring the print however I do not offer any photo ops or press exchange in any way. My fee for showing my film is $35,000 dollars US.”
— Vincent Gallo
6. “Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.”
— Jean Paul Gaultier
7. “It’s cool to go to a place that has posters up and it’s one night only. It feels more special.”
— Todd Barry
8. “When I was a kid, I was kind of obsessed with that movie ‘Dick Tracy.’ Burger King had all this ‘Dick Tracy’ stuff, and I collected all of it, and I had the posters, and I watched it on a loop.”
— Ryan Gosling
9. “I’ve fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.”
— Xavier Dolan
10. “Like every other teenage girl, I was a great fan of Hrithik sir. This childhood crush was not like others though – the love for him was so deep in my heart that my boarding school hostel room was filled with his posters which I didn’t let any one touch. My heart was broken when I saw him getting married.”
— Shakti Mohan
11. “But when I started writing songs, I stopped painting completely, and the only art things I do are connected to the career, like album sleeves and, to some extent, posters and things like that.”
— Bryan Ferry
12. “In a way, I was spoon-fed, if you will, a career. It was fully manufactured by a studio that believed that they could put me on their posters and turn me into their bottle of Coca-Cola, their product.”
— Heath Ledger
13. “There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it ‘Patrick.’ I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It’s insanity. I’m not going to do any of it.”
— Patrick Swayze
14. “I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn’t see any rock & roll bands. I had posters on my wall. I had Beatles records.”
— Dave Grohl
15. “I’m a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.”
— Tavi Gevinson
16. “Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke – Go and have a look in my bedroom, It’s covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.”
— Ringo Starr
17. “I’m not a kid. You don’t get in this business for anonymity. It’s not like I have posters of myself on the wall, but at the same time, I’m kind of ready for a little bit of it, but I worry for my little one, and my family – their privacy. That’s what I’m more protective of.”
— Hugh Jackman
18. “In Madrid, there’s a big street in the centre called Callao. I remember being there with my mum and pointing to one of the big film posters and saying, ‘I want to be up there.’ That was my dream, and I got it.”
— Maria Valverde
19. “I’ve done over 125 posters and I have worked with some of the best photographers in the world. They made me America’s Number one Pin Up.”
— Cindy Margolis
20. “I’m hoping that word-of-mouth on the film – people seeing it and liking it – that that will drive more people to the theaters, because I haven’t seen the billboards or the posters or anything.”
— Craig McCracken
21. “We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn’t get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.”
— Martina Hingis
22. “I was brought in, not in the photographic department at all, I was brought in on a thing called Special Skills. I was to do posters, pamphlets, murals, propaganda in general, you know.”
— Ben Shahn
23. “Because we do not sell photographs, we have no royalties on books, posters, postcards.”
— Christo
24. “The epiphany for me was that I wasn’t a writer, and I had to do something with these texts. I put them in the streets as posters.”
— Jenny Holzer
25. “I have thousands of tapes, and photos and fliers, letters, posters, artwork – basically everything that ever happened, I kept. I’m not a hoarder, though. I’m sort of a librarian.”
— Ian MacKaye
26. “In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn’t have a student space organization. I made posters for a group I called Students for the Exploration and Development of Space and put them up all over campus. Thirty-five people showed up. It was the first thing I ever organized, and it took off!”
— Peter Diamandis
27. “There was a fascinating handmade poster scene in Chicago in the ’90s, and I became friends with many of the artists; the posters were often more impressive than the bands.”
— Andrew Bird
28. “When I was on Broadway, people would really just recognize me around the theater. When you’re showing up on commercials and posters, the scope of people recognizing you gets a little wider.”
— Dan Fogler
29. “I made my career off posing in swimsuits and doing all the swimsuit issues and posters, but I will tell you that that little bit of material on an itsy-bitsy bikini – taking that off was very nerve-racking the first time.”
— Cindy Margolis
30. “I was notorious at NXT for having constant pitches and ideas. I was that girl who would come in every day to Dusty Rhodes with a 10-page pitch for characters and posters of character development.”
— Lana
31. “My room used to be full of Michael Jackson posters.”
— Zendaya
32. “I’ve always been into things like exploring and science on the frontiers. I had pictures of space up in my room way back in middle school, right next to the boy band posters!”
— Christina Koch
33. “We’re not ashamed of the old stuff, but when you look back at the posters it does make you think: ‘My God, six men and one woman.’ Weirdly we didn’t say ‘that’s wrong’ and no one else did, either. It’s been a really quick shift in the landscape of telly, which is brilliant.”
— Alex Horne
34. “I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.”
— Jack Steinberger
35. “I never had posters on my walls, and I didn’t have any icons, either. I come from a small village in Wirral, and my family didn’t watch TV. I wasn’t exposed to people with icon status. David Bowie popped up, but I had already shaved my eyebrows off by the time I saw his.”
— Pete Burns
36. “For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.”
— Shane Koyczan
37. “I was obsessed with Nelson Mandela. I had big posters of him in my bedroom and he became my proxy father figure. He was in jail, so I could project all sorts of things about what he would say to me.”
— David Lammy
38. “I used to have Mumbai Indians posters in my room growing up, and to win with them. Amazing.”
— Hardik Pandya
39. “Handwritten political posters – often composed in an artless and unadorned style, usually just words on plain white paper – were ubiquitous in South Korea in the 1970s and 1980s and were one of the few outlets available for expressing political views. Most posters were anonymous and put up under the cover of night.”
— Kim Young-ha
40. “College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life.”
— Paul Ryan
41. “In 1986, I was attacked in the street as I helped Neil Mullarkey from the Comedy Store Players to put up posters. We were in the wrong place at the wrong time – midnight – and we were English. I got kicked in the head.”
— Paul Merton
42. “George Gervin was my childhood idol since I was little. In Oakland I had all his posters on my wall.”
— Gary Payton
43. “Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions.”
— Jim Henson
44. “When you have a name actor, with a face that people recognise and a name that can go on posters or billboards and be able to appear on the talkshow circuit and tout the film, that’s always a plus.”
— Kelly Asbury
45. “I always performed when I was a child. My parents got very annoyed, because my brother and I had our little bedrooms upstairs, and I would plaster the house with posters with arrows pointing upstairs.”
— Franka Potente
46. “We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That’s why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they’re going to get a band hat on, and say people aren’t acting the right way?”
— Kim Deal
47. “When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.”
— Boris Becker
48. “I got to meet Mark Hamill. He signed some Star Wars posters for us. I saw the fight scenes he had. He was really into making fun of himself and Star Wars.”
— Shannon Elizabeth
49. “I’d rather send out a mass email then hang posters all over the place.”
— Todd Barry
50. “I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress.”
— Illeana Douglas
51. “But one thing that’s constant is we’ve always appreciated fans. They put us on the map and they keep us on the map. I always put myself in their position. If I loved someone and had their posters all over my wall and met them and they were rude it would be very hurtful.”
— Cheryl James
52. “If you put up posters around town for high-school kids, high-school kids will come. If you’re casting politicians, you can’t put up posters and have politicians come down.”
— Gus Van Sant
53. “I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.”
— Brooke Burke
54. “I know this’ll sound obnoxious, but acting was very much an accident for me. I didn’t have, like, posters of Marlon Brando in my bedroom when I was growing up.”
— Michael Shannon
55. “After ‘Sesame Street,’ it’s a hyper-familiar world to me and I have this childlike ability to ignore the fact that I’m talking to scraps of cloth. Every country I go to, I see posters promoting the film in different languages. ‘Los Muppets’ – I love that!”
— Feist
56. “I don’t go out, so I don’t get attention from girls. They’re not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.”
— Gareth Bale
57. “If people are like, ‘Oh, you’re an icon,’ then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It’s not like I have posters of myself on the wall.”
— Kathleen Hanna
58. “I used to spend a lot of time cutting out film posters from papers and putting them up on the wall in my room.”
— Anurag Kashyap
59. “Two dads have sent me letters that said my books changed their daughters’ lives. I send them packages with T-shirts and posters because, come on… that’s the coolest.”
— Simone Elkeles
60. “Never had any idols, ever. I never had any posters, nothing.”
— Mika
