Quotes About Entertainment

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that's pretty seductive.

The main obligation is to amuse yourself.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

A tale never loses in the telling.

When television is good, nothing is better. But when television is bad, nothing is worse. I invite you to sit down in front of your TV set and keep your eyes glued to that set until the station signs off. I can assure you that you will observe a vast wasteland.

Television is a gold goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar.

Television is chewing gum for the eyes.

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Television has a real problem. They have no page two.

Good heavens, television is something you appear on, you don't watch.

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.

Why should people pay good money to go out and see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?

Television is not the truth. Television is a god-damned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a travelling troupe of acrobats, storytellers dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers and football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.

I've had several years in Hollywood and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

A sense of humor is the ability to laugh at your own jokes when your friends tell them.

When compelled to cook, I produce a meal that would make a sword swallower gag.

Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.

I've had a wonderful evening — but this wasn't it.

When a ham actor told George Jessel "I'm a sensation at the Roxy. Last night I had the audience glued to their seats," Jessel snapped, "Wonderful! How clever of you to think of it."

Star Wars changed everything in the industry, from pace and storytelling, to visual effects and sound.

Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.

Peabody: "When a guy's in the hospital, he wants toys." Eve: "When a guy gets a splinter in his toe, he wants toys.

The goodie drawer of all goodie drawers. This dildo not only throbs, vibrates, expands, and comes equipped with hands-free feature, it sings a choice of five popular tunes." He crouched beside her. "You couldn't have tried it out that quickly." "Pervert. I turned it on to see. He's got some illegals sprinkled through here, too.