Quotes About Entertainment

I wish I had a book with me, since clearly I have a lot of time on my hands. I always carry around one or two, but we had to leave our backpacks on the bus.

She read novels. One book after another, sometimes at the rate of one a day, for a solid year. An acceptable form of escape that didn't leave a hangover.

the number of models per square foot here on South Beach was higher than anywhere else in the world and that commercial and film shoots were common.

We're professional liars, aren't we? It's our job to keep the story interesting.

We honeymooned on the SS Franklin," Max said. "We were the onboard entertainment even though it was Millie's first time onstage. When I saw this house for sale a couple years later, I knew we had to have it." "It reminds me of the Titanic," Nicole said under her breath. "Post-iceberg. Assuming it had mowed down a flock of flamingos first.

satellite TV—as always amazed that there could be so many options and so little to watch.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

There are clowns who make you laugh, there are clowns who laugh with you and there are clowns who laugh at you."

if you program and want any longevity to your work, make a game. all else recycles, but people rewrite architectures to keep games alive.

The audience has been lined up for over an hour already, and I know from experience that an audience's willingness to enjoy your show is inversely proportional to the amount of time you keep them waiting past the time on the ticket, which is, in this case, 8 p.m.

As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, "Aye, Sir. Course laid in" is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

Hey, as long as you're not moving the story forward at all, why not have a pod race?

He and Helen spent the rest of the winter there, seeing friends and promoting his cigars. He staged one stunt in which he smoked three cigars at one time.

Bilgili kimseye öykünmeyi beceremiyorsun ama soyguncuya öykünmeyi çok iyi beceriyorsun. Filmlerin, radyo programlar?n, "güldürü kitaplar?n" hep cinayetlerle dolu.

If the television craze continues with the present level of programs, we are destined to have a nation of morons.

The people went mad over these big games and didn't care if Caesar became dictator or not as long as he kept them amused. But

But reading is different, reading is something you do. With TV, and cinema for that matter, everything's handed to you on a plate, nothing has to be worked at, they just spoon-feed you. The picture, the sound, the scenery, the atmospheric music in case you haven't understood what the director's on about… The creaking door that tells you to be stiff. You have to imagine it all when you're reading.

Eravamo il suo narratore, siamo diventati il suo contabile. «Se è così, allora stasera niente tivù!» Eh! Sì... Sì... La televisione elevata alla dignità di ricompensa... E, come corollario, la lettura relegata al rango di courvé. È nostra, questa gran trovata...

Abbioccarmi in treno, al cinema, a teatro o mentre leggo è una voluttà cui non rinuncio mai.

I grew up listening to show tunes in the back of the car.

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.

I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet.

But that's the beauty of American cable news, darling. It doesn't have to be credible. It just has to be entertaining.