Quotes About Entertainment

Film was nothing like television; there was a craft to it, and I realized how much hard work was needed. It was not some mindless, two-bit job that only requires you to look good.

Wanted' is a full-on masala entertainer. But it is not a mindless film.

It's not like I have anything against it, I just chose the kind of films that appeal to me, and mindless entertainers don't often appeal to me.

It crossed our minds early on that the more an audience cared - we were working before, on average, 240, live people. If you could get them caring - the more they cared, the harder they laughed.

I like everybody at 'Criminal Minds.' I would like to guest star, but I don't know if that is in the cards.

Indian audience has a mindset that a movie which does well at film festivals will necessarily be slow and boring.

I once had Rachel McAdams over for lunch, when she was with Michael Sheen, who's a friend of mine.

We don't dance because we can't dance. Our shows, production-wise, are always quite minimal. We always try and keep it more about us having fun and stay away from gimmicks.

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

It doesn't bother me that I'm not a household word on the East Coast. Baton Rouge, Raleigh, Minneapolis - I'm so popular in these cities where you've never imagined an East Coast comedian working.

I love the Minnesota State Fair, and I go with my family every August for nearly all 12 days.

The fighting in the NHL, especially, and, I think, in some of the minor leagues, it's usually the loudest and the most excited the crowd gets during the entire the game.

I have not seen 'Legally Blonde.' I must be in the small, ever-dwindling minority on that one.

Being a comedian, all the stress is there in the moment of doing it. The rest of it is mint: you hang out with your mates, go to the arcades, go to the cinema in the daytime, it's like being a teenager all the time.

I've known Ben Stiller for a minute. One of my first movies was 'Along Came Polly.'

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

I just got off stage playing with Lynyrd Skynyrd a minute ago. It was a great show. Got to meet some incredible guests. This is the bee's knees.

I've got stuff about airline mergers, which just shows that my stand-up is getting more insane by the minute.

The minute you start assuming that the audience is very happy to see the same show again, you're dead.

Obviously, when you do something with drama and comedy in it - and by that, I mean a scene that has drama and comedy in it - you know the minute you introduce music, you're either scoring the drama or you're scoring the comedy, and therefore the scene becomes either dramatic or comedic.

I'm really aging myself, but I grew up with 'Playhouse 90' and the plays on the air - 90 minute plays.

I believe that given the audience attention level, we could do an even more compelling 90 minutes.

He follows several trains of thought at once, without distraction from any, and one of the trains is always for his own amusement.

A little attention however to the nature of the human mind evinces that the entertainments of fiction are useful as well as pleasant. That they are pleasant when well written, every person feels who reads. But wherein is its utility, asks the reverend sage, big with the notion that nothing can be useful but the learned lumber of Greek and Roman reading with which his head is stored? I answer, every thing is useful which contributes to fix us in the principles and practice of virtue.