Quotes About Entertainment

I have never been more physically tired than after that first song of my first concert.

I just think action films now have... often, because you can do anything with CGI, people do. And I don't think you necessarily should. You lose that sort of human dimension, and you get all the stuff breaking the laws of physics.

There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

I've heard 'Piano Man.' That song is pretty cool.

I've paid for more pianos in hotel lobbies than you can imagine.

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play.

I get nervous when they start shooting piano players.

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.

'The Piano' ended up on television. Everything ends up there anyway.

When Marty Short and I get together, I sit down at the piano and play the score of 'Godspell.'

I played piano in a covers band, but that didn't especially help with girls. There is never a piano around after the shows. Guys with the guitars were the ones who got lucky.

I don't go out much. I have people over, and I cook dinner, or we play the piano, or we watch TV.

When I was starting out in this business, that was the norm. You did it all. You looked around, and entertainers could dance, sing, play the piano, act, make you laugh.

Lady Gaga is the Picasso of the entertainment world. She's very intelligent.

In fact, Cannonball Run II. I used to pick that as the worst movie ever made.

I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult.

My feeling is, from when I started on 'Breaking Bad,' there's no reason to pick and choose because every episode is great. Whatever episode you get, you're lucky to do it.

I always try to pick and choose projects that will be impactful to someone. From films like 'Clockers' to playing a doctor on 'ER' to doing '8 Mile,' where I'm in charge of the hip-hop battles, I think it affects all kinds of different audiences. And I just try to keep that in mind, to keep people entertained.

All the song choices that we've picked are unique in their own right. They're fun, and it's really just to engage our fans.

TV sort of picked up for me before my theater career did.

I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

I didn't plan on going into show business. Show business picked me. And it's been fun. One of the best things about being in show business is people think they know me, and they feel like they grew up with me.