Quotes About Entertainment

An agent is a guy who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what he makes.

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

The live entertainment Canadians like most is the intimate review, a collection of songs and sketches, preferably with a satirical bias.

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

Show business is like sex. When it's wonderful, it's wonderful. But when it isn't very good, it's still all right.

All the movies used to be 'colossal'. Now they're all 'frank'. I think I liked 'colossal' better.

Satire is what closes Saturday night.

Very few people go to the doctor when they have a cold, they go to the theatre instead.

The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.

The play's the thing.

I drink to make other people interesting.

What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.

Now when I bore people at a party, they think it's their fault.

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda-water the day after.

A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.

When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth.

A comedian is a fellow who finds other comedians too humorous to mention.

The role of a comedian is to make the audience laugh, at a minimum of once every fifteen seconds.

I was nominated 13 times during my 15-week stay in 'Bigg Boss' but they couldn't get me out. That is because I was truthful and entertained the audience with my good sense of humour.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

I'm totally open to it being a movie or a television series or whatever, but truthfully, if no one wants to do it right, I'm also happy for 'Ex Machina' to only ever exist as a comic book.

Wouldn't it be great to see a line in all movie credits that truthfully says, 'Nobody was harmed in the making of this film, and at the cast party, all animals got a belly belly belly rub.'

Truthfully, I don't like the binge-watching model. I think that if you give everybody everything all at once, there's very much a law of diminishing returns as far as their enjoyment of them.