Quotes About Entertainment

I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.

If an actor is bored, then they are boring to an audience. I definitely don't want to ever be that.

I cant wait for them to convert old movies to 3D. I am 100% confident I want them to convert Terminator 2 to 3D more than I want anything in the world.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

I feel a responsibility to the fans who have paid to see me and I want to give as good a show as I possibly can.

If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?

When they come out to my shows they like me but trying to get them to come out to my shows they're like "I don't want to go and see that old guy" But when they do they totally get it.

I considered writing a book too, but I think people don't like to read, to be honest - they want to watch. People want to see crazy things, so we decided to make a film ["Selling Isobel"] instead.

The Gold Rush(1925) affirmed Charlie Chaplin's belief that tragedy and comedy are never far apart.

The flipper bat was quite a breakthrough because it gave the player a true means of exercising and developing skill. You could aim at targets now, rather than in the old days when you popped the ball up and just shook the shit out of the table and hoped that it went in the right hole or hit the right thing. The use of the flipper bat is probably the greatest breakthrough ever in pinball. —Eddie

When man invented fire, he didn't say, "Hey, let's cook." He said, "Great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark."

and any discussion of art vs. entertainment in the present cultural climate invites accusations of elitism and snobbery.

Much of what is today called "social criticism" consists of members of the upper classes denouncing the tastes of the lower classes (bawdy entertainment, fast food, plentiful consumer goods) while considering themselves egalitarians.

One of the reasons why people - particularly young people - love action movies is because what they are really looking for is justice.

Documentaries are the first line of education, and the second line of education is dramatization, such as 'The Pacific'.

Every time I go to a movie, it's magic, no matter what the movie's about.

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

My friend would spend all of his time practicing limbo. He got pretty good. He could go under a rug.

Driving hasn't been the same since I installed fun-house rearview mirrors.

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving.

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask if I'm leaving.

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

I wouldn't like to be in movies. Movie people are strange. They live a different life than musicians do.