Quotes About Entertainment

Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

I thought I'd give myself 10 years as an entertainment journalist and build up so much clout that there was no way Hollywood could ignore me when I started delivering scripts. Little did I know they were very good at ignoring it.

Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn't mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I'm leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that's it... I can only do what I do.

As an entertainment journalist for over a decade, I travel to great places for work, from red carpets in Rio, movie premieres in London to celebrity sit-downs in Bora Bora.

Journalists said they had never seen so many funny women as leads when we did 'Hotwives' - we had a cast of seven very funny women. That doesn't happen.

When I did 'Bremner, Bird and Fortune' I think it was accepted that comedians can contest the arguments just as well as journalists.

It's not that there aren't people who care creatively in the world of television, but there's always a bit more time in making a movie. I always feel films are more of a creative journey.

To me if you're going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.

Although I hardly ever turn on the TV set unless it's football season, I do watch a lot of TV on my iPad - perfect for long airplane journeys.

As comedians, if nothing else, we're certainly allowed to make fun of ourselves and our own journeys and our own experiences.

I've spent a lot of long car journeys listening to audiobooks, so I know firsthand just how amazing they can be.

And the goal really is to make the audience laugh, to bring them some joy.

Every night is a joy; you get an hour and a half of all these hits. It's a lot of fun.

It was a joy to be a part of the team that created Round The Horne. I was involved with the show at a time of my life when I was very happy., and that happiness overflowed into the scripts.

If you ask anybody what they think of clowns, it's associated as much or more with something crazy and scary as it is something joyful.

Going to the theater is such a joyous experience.

Well yes I think laughter is joyous, laughter is crucial. I think thats why I love comedy and thats why Im in comedy in the first place.

One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that.

One of the many joys of tongue-twisters is that they serve no purpose beyond fun.

Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.

I judge movies on how much fun I had while I was doing them. I had a great time on 'The Right Stuff.' Doing that was fantastic. And there was the year I did 'The Rookie' and 'Far From Heaven,' which was amazing because those two different roles were just so far apart.

I wouldn't mind being a talent show judge if it didn't run for too long.

Who wouldn't want to be an 'American Idol' judge? It's an awesome, awesome show.

It's really weird casting babies; it's kind of the dark underbelly of Hollywood, to meet babies and judge them.