Quotes About Entertainment

Listen, don't bother trying to resist Varian. He is stronger than you. Let him amuse himself.

She said she would welcome an evening's entertainment, away from the concerns of an addled soulscape.

I was hamming it up so much you could virtually taste the salad too.

We need the slower and more lasting stimulus of solitary reading as a relief from the pressure on eye, ear and nerves of the torrent of information and entertainment pouring from ever-open electronic jaws. It could end by stupefying us.

I was obsessed with 'Reality Bites' and 'My So-Called Life.'

I believe that the purpose of cinema is to entertain. The so-called geniuses may have given new meanings to it, but for those who developed cinema, the aim was to entertain.

I love the breadth and space you get to explore character in so-called serialized TV, the novelistic element of maybe being able to find out who people are. But I also very much like the sitcom discipline of having a self-contained episode that you could conceivably, I hope, be able to enjoy in and of itself.

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

I don't watch daily soap. I've never seen my shows as well except for the scenes in which I really want to improve something or correct something.

'Bleak House' is like the best soap you could ever hope to watch.

Life, especially life on soaps, sometimes needs a reality check.

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

I've always said, I prefer the opera to the soap - those extreme characters and circumstances.

Television is kind of a disappointment. I often want to watch it, but I find it quite hard - I don't like soaps, reality TV or celebrity chefs.

Privately, we always called 'Hill Street' 'Cop Soap.'

You have Showtime, you have AMC, you have all of these, you know, incredible networks that are now bringing forth their product without the handcuffs, if you will, of trying to sell soap to the entire country.

'Criminal Intent' scripts are very good. Like others involved in 'Law & Order' stuff, I've come to appreciate the lack of 'soap,' if you will. The story dominates. You don't spend a lot of time with the psychological underpinnings of the police.

I don't know why people feel that I am only interested in films, but I very much want to do fiction. My only prerequisite is a good role, something which satisfies the actor in me. If I get a good banner and a good channel, I would definitely do a daily soap.

'Teachers' is in no way a realistic soap; we're not trying to do that, which is why we never do 'issues.'

No character in a soap is indispensable.

I do not see myself doing daily TV soaps!

When fiction started on TV, the daily soap splurge happened and I knew that I would not get caught in a daily soap.

Even before Bigg Boss,' I have been doing a daily soap and that made me popular and got me the reality show.

I'm not that keen to do a daily soap, but I'm always ready for reality soaps.