Quotes About Entertainment

I like to write books that touch my heart. I want to entertain, and I love to entertain myself.

Men that cannot entertain themselves want somebody, though they care for nobody.

My introduction to acting was through theatre, so I actually saw a couple of Broadway shows that made me want to be an actor.

I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

I'm not going to name any names, but let's just say, I want to do jokes on Donald Trump so badly, and I have no venue. So right now, I'm just dry Trumping.

As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.

A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.

I don't consider myself a teacher of moral and political positions. I don't want to be that. I can't help but have a point of view when I make a film, but my first job is to entertain you.

For me, comedians are like the epitome for everything great, and they terrify me. I just want to be them. I want to be like them.

When I hear that high-pitched sound of all those people screaming together, it's like, I want to get on stage right now. It's the most amazing feeling.

Ultimately, an audience wants to laugh. That's who they like, the comedian who makes them laugh.

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you.

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

The success of the Hollywood marketing machine is to limit what we see. Not just to limit what we can see, but also to limit our expectations - to limit what we want to see.

Dialogue that's distinctive, funny, peculiar, and specific is the main thing that makes me want to get involved with a film to begin with.

Whether it's Batman, Superman, Watchmen, the 300 story, we just make stuff that I want to see.

When I watch the movie, which is I don't know how many times I've done now with editing and everything, I walk out giddy just because I feel like that's the movie that I want to see.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.

The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting.

We, as producers, want to tell the best stories. We want to tell the stories that people will talk about.

It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

If you look at movies with Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart and all the rest of it, none of them looks like a boy. They always looked like mature men. The audience didn't want to go and see kids.

Let's focus on the funny. ... That's what I'm focused on... This is the gift God gave me. That's what I want to touch in people.