Quotes About Entertainment

I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does neither, I want to go home.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.

Once anyone who has a sense of humor can do what they want, they want to do funny bits as much as possible.

Whatever it is, I just loved it and felt at my absolute happiest when I was performing for people. And if that's what you want from a job, then this is the best job you could ever do.

Giving it to the audience is probably the easiest thing. Finding out what they truly want is probably the most difficult.

Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

Every night I get up on stage, I love it. I never get like, 'Oh, I'm bored, I want to go home.' I never, ever get like that.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

When you take an energetic song and add it to one of the most energetic live performance set's you get pure mayhem...which is what the fans want to see!

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.

Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together.

I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it.

As an artist myself I don't like to be preached. I want to enjoy myself, so I kind of use that perspective to make music.

You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something.

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.

You walk into my bedroom at night, it looks like a nightclub. There's all kinds of lighting effects, there's all kinds of music. I want them to feel like they're in for a show. I believe in romance.

I ain't makin' music for the media. I make music for the people in the streets - that want a street level of entertainment. I'm makin' music because I have the streets to feed.

People think that they just want movies like Pretty Woman, when really they - at least the ones that I know personally - have been waiting for something that doesn't completely insult them.

Obviously those who burn to be professional jesters mean that they want to be successful comedians. And those are always an elite, microscopic portion of the population. But oh, how they try.

When bands are on stage and they ask the crowd, "Are you having a good time?" what they're really saying is, "I just want a bit of reassurance - is everything all right?"

Every artist should want to be like Michael Jackson

If you've never been to one of my concerts. I want you to know that it is OK to scream and yell.