Quotes About Entertainment

'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.

I'd like to do 'My Best Friend's Wedding, ' 'Pretty Woman, ' Meg Ryan type stuff. Romantic comedies. I'd love to do some action stuff as well.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I nor the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

Mike & Trent Vegas baby Vegas

Gabriel Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that Misdirection.

Gabriel Oh come on Stan Not everything ends the way you think it should Besides, audiences love happy endings.

Much as a teacher may wince at the thought, he is also an entertainer—for unless he can hold his audience, he cannot really instruct or edify them.

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

In London her grief was retracted into sudden realisations of her loss. She had thought that sorrow would be her companion for many years and had planned for its entertainment. Now it visited her like sudden snow-storms, a hastening darkness across the sky, a transient whiteness and rigour cast upon her. She tried to recover the sentiment of renunciation which she had worn like a veil. It was gone, and gone with it was her sense of the dignity of bereavement.

I don't remember ever deciding to become a performer. I just always was. I began performing by mimicking the performers on the new television that first took the attention away from me as the baby of the household. I continued performing to put a smile on my grandmother's face and always considered her when accepting or declining roles.

But Hollywood cinema remains profoundly conservative, profoundly stupid, and often painful. About one out of every ten films is okay, meaning a little bit better than the average.

It is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.

A lot of our culture and its entertainments encourage us to run away from the reality of the aliveness of our life.

Once I achieved stardom, the whole apparatus of the theater palled on me.

My doom was sealed when I saw a girl turn cartwheels at a circus in Birmingham.

Hun himlet med øynene og viftet dramatisk med armene. Kommer hun til å gi etter for ham, og besvime i hans sterke armer? Eller vil hun sky ham, la ham subbe seg tilbake til Brizzie med halen mellom beina? Hun smilte ertende. Følg med i neste episode.

For me, Vegas is a vacation from being overinhibited, in the highly overinhabited yet uninhabitable city of complete uninhibition.

It was something she'd told him off about on more than one occasion, this tendency to offer up his private sadnesses as a form of mass entertainment.