Quotes About Entertainment

There was certainly less profanity in the Godfather than in the Sopranos. There was a kind of respect. It's not that I totally agreed with it, but it was a great piece of art.

I tend to score with songs from Western pop music.

You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'

I love watching the Bond movies obviously and I grew up reading the books as a kid. I've always loved them because of that.

I love huge movies. Not sure I am the guy to make them, but you can rely on me being there watching them.

I like action movies, even though I think action movies are kind of derided now. But there is something extraordinary about action movies, which is absolutely linked to the invention of cinema and what cinema is and why we love it.

You have to give people permission to laugh. That's why they would always cut to the banana peel in the Laurel and Hardy movies.

The hardest part about doing Spaceballs (1987) was not laughing when they said "action".

If you don't like my movies, don't watch them.

The old adage tells us "Garbage in, garbage out." I'm afraid too many of us who are believers in Christ don't take proper care of what we feed our minds. So much in the way of entertainment is not honorable. We are taught to be cynical and skeptical, even about truths of God. But God's Word doesn't warn us about the negative in these verses. Through Paul's letter to the Philippians, God tells us to fix our minds on the positive.

Don't alienate strangers. Sit back and enjoy the entertainment.

Have you read your UNDERPANTS today?

For a long time the people at my shows were sort of the Pantera-tattoo trucker guys, really cool dudes, but I don't know what happened to them. That's the crowd that I like, the ones that don't get so offended just to be offended.

I don't watch reality TV. I'm cool.

I'm not a movie guy, I'm not a TV sitcom guy, but whatever seems to fit and is funny is good for me.

Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

There was a time when the human race did not have technology. This time was called "the 1950s." I was a child then, and it was horrible. There were only three TV channels, and at any given moment at least two of them were showing men playing the accordion in black and white.

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

Something about New York, man: You can do more comedy there probably than you can anywhere in the world. If you're interested in being funny, New York is the place to go.

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

Wealthy Venetian men provide little education for their daughters and keep their wives housebound - some don't get out more than two or three times a year. They have no friends, no recreations. Then the men wonder why their womenfolk are so dull. they patronize courtesans at least as much for entertainment as for sex, probably more.

90 percent reduction in violence among the boys who had television and video games removed