Quotes About Entertainment

I do a mean mouth trumpet.

All I've got to say is if I'm a sellout, I'm selling out arenas all over the world, and I'd rather be selling out arenas than selling out of my trunk on the corner of my block.

I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

While the House of Blues slogan has been 'In blues we trust,' its stages are usually filled with more reliable moneymakers - Neil Diamond and A Tribe Called Quest among them.

With 'Duplicity', I was a little bit like, 'This isn't that hard of a movie.' This isn't like some huge brain trust of a movie. You gotta be a little bit awake to follow the plot, but it's really just a kind of light entertainment. It's like those Cary Grant movies, which are not meant to be anything other than diverting. In a nice way.

Music is just something I find very fun, the way other people find going to the mall is fun - which I do, too, trust me. I love shopping.

Hindi movies will never be liked by the critics, trust me. The main stream Hollywood film will not be liked by the critics.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.

The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh.

The truth is, we have this idea that late night is about creativity and being cool, but that's not our job. Our job is to get as many people watching the commercials in between our show. That's the reality of it.

Truth is, I don't like movies that are only good once; I tend to dismiss them. I like movies that get better the more you watch them.

The truth is I loved an audience.

I mean, sometimes... a comedian becomes an actor, and they just don't deliver, because the bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of acting is to be truthful, and they get that mixed up sometimes, or don't even notice that that's the thing.

Big comedy is good, I like things that are big, but good comedy has to be truthful I think and has to reflect some sort of reality.

The truth of it is that people are not going to want to go to improvisational theater if it's not funny. You can succeed in doing all the things you're supposed to do - be truthful to scene - and if it's not funny, I'm telling you that no one's gonna care.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

I don't think I will do a Mafia character again. I want to get away from the violence a little bit, because it is starting to bother me personally.

When it's all said & done only God can judge me. I'm going to go out there on 5/5 to give my fans what they want to see.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.