Quotes About Entertainment

the song and dance musical comedies that prevailed in the 1920s and '30s and the integrated musicals that became more influential in the 1940s and '50s both allow a meaningful dramatic relationship between songs and their shows.

Movies are about escape.

When I was old enough to go to movies alone, I got to see 'Frankenstein' and 'Dracula' on the big screen. I just fell in love with them.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of entertainment.

It is the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician. If the illusion fails the ballet fails, no matter how well a program note tells the audience that it has succeeded.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left.

I know that show business is my life. It always was and it always will be. Nothing holds my interest like show business, nothing excites me more. There's nothing I think or talk about as much. I would hate to have to live without show business. When I'm working, I'm happy.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.

Someone who makes you laugh is a comedian. Someone who makes you think and then laugh is a humorist.

Say Goodnight Gracie.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

And, of course, the funniest food of all, kumquats.

I grew up in the world of bad television, on my dad's sets and then as a young schmuck on dating shows and so on.

The last real movie stars were probably Redford and Newman. And things were different then. There wasn't this amazing amount of magazines and information about them.

Thank you," I said to Linus. "Of course. This is what I'm here for. It's my function as your witness." He grinned again. "Besides, things around you have a way of turning interesting. I do hate to be bored.

Nothing kills a party like an oversized metal hedgehog.

The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains. Of course actors regard audiences as enemies, to be deceived, drugged, incarcerated, stupefied. This is partly because the audience is also a court against which there is no appeal.

The theatre is an attack on mankind carried on by magic: to victimize an audience every night, to make them laugh and cry and suffer and miss their trains.

Whoa it's still coming and I'm thinking now is the time to fall in love now now now but not with the world with that one special her, just do it, just do it now, just change your whole fuckin life in the space of a heartbeat, do it now… but nah… this is just entertainment…

You cannot make your shimmy shake on tea

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.