Quotes About Entertainment

We do not take humor seriously enough.

On TV they keep their kids. Love them.

A regénykönyvek már nem mulattatnak, mert magam szebbeket tudok elgondolni.

I don't want to be pigeonholed into doing just romantic comedies. But they're fun, and especially for women, it's nice to go to see them and enjoy that breath of fresh air.

I don't want to make movies for kids, and I don't want to make movies for adults either.

There are so many funny women in the world, and there has been for so many years, so I'll be happy when people can just move on from that, and things can just be 'comedies' and not 'female' or 'male ' and everyone gets an equal opportunity.

If he only knew how often she and Eileen had discussed the benefits of Netflix on dateless weekend nights.

Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

Other people's perspective, just seeing the sexy image, might be that I take my sexuality very seriously. But I really don't. I like being sexy. It's fun, and I have had a nice little career off it.

But I didn't ask to have somebody nose around in my private life. I didn't even ask to be famous. All I asked was to be able to earn a living making people laugh.

My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.

I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie. The networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

I was onstage last night talking. I said, "You know the diaphragm is a pain in the ass." Someone yelled out, "You were putting it in the wrong way."

There should be more to writing than entertaining an already-brain-dead society and making money. If not,then you miss the point of writing.

Why is it that everyone loves to see the rich person get flushed down the toilet? Why is it people will spend four dollars to buy a magazine just so they can read about some Hollywood star's divorce? Or arrest? Or bad luck? I have no idea what Hollywood crimes have actually been told truthfully, but at least I have the brains to say I don't know.

Coconut shies and

Norville invited him in the first place.

Performing wasn't something to fear; it was a merely a larger circle of collaboration. The more I communicated my joy to the audience, the more joy they communicated back to me.

Every night instead of watching television, Sandburg would read to his family." "I sure hope Mom doesn't start that," Michael muttered.

This will sound crazy, but I'm saving it. For my nursing home list." "You mean bucket list." "Oh no, that's totally different. A nursing home list is a list of things you plan on reading and watching in a nursing home. A bucket list is more like . . . visit Nigeria, jump out of an airplane. A nursing home list is like, read The Western Coast and watch Pulp Fiction and listen to the latest Daft Punk album.

They buy these books to get scared because their lives are too easy. How pathetic is that?

This is why America loves Stephen King so much; he keeps us on the edge of our seats until it hurts.