Quotes About Entertainment

In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

For me, the film has to be incredibly bad to make me want to pack up and leave.

I am so happy because I want more people to like martial arts movie not just martial arts audience. Even martial arts can be used in comedy, in drama, in horror movies, in different kinds of movies.

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.

I remember as a kid watching TV and seeing Mel Blanc doing his voices and Paul Winchell doing his ventriloquism and thinking, 'Those guys are having a good time. I want to do that.'

Comedies are doing well because I think people want to laugh and not think about everything for a little bit.

For some reason and I don't know why, but I don't think that I'm funny in California. So I always want to do my movies east somewhere.

You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

Everybody in L.A. wants to be an actor. I just wish I could meet somebody who doesn't act or sing.

I'll go and see anything so long as it amuses me, or moves me. If it doesn't do either I want to go home.

I've discovered that people don't actually want to have things spoiled, and they really try to avoid spoilers.

You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.

Mystery makes movie stars! If you see someone on the cover of the weeklies all the time, why would you want to pay to see them in a movie?

People don't want to read subtitles.

When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.

And as long as people want to hear me sing, I don't know why I'd retire.

It's nice to have people interested about a show that you're involved in. It's what actors want.

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.

When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns.

This is the way I want to die. Torn apart by angry fans who want me to play a different song.

Peter [Facinelli] would be so good at doing that. I want him to do the Beyoncé biopic.