Quotes About Entertainment

I've done my best to avoid B pictures.

It draws you in and creates pictures, so what I do is almost like a talking story book.

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

I am interested in being in pictures that I would like to see.

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

I really like sometimes to do action pictures; I get a really big kick out of doing those.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.

I try to make pictures I would want to see.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes.

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of 'culture.'

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

I grew up on the Bond movies. The first one I saw was 'Diamonds Are Forever,' when I was a kid. I just loved them to pieces.

The whole Bond thing has gotten so dour with the direction they've been going in, it feels like they need to move back to Pierce Brosnan-style fun Bond again. If they did that, Dan Stevens would be the perfect choice.

I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.

I was in the play 'Fat Pig in the West End,' which is a comedy but has dramatic moments.

I think a lot of the fans want to see the high-flying action and be entertained. I don't think there is a better division out there than the cruiserweights to do that. It could be a pigeonhole for some, but at the end of the day, it's about whatever makes you happy as a performer.

People try to pigeonhole comics by saying they're just for kids. So is The Odyssey. So is the Labors of Hercules, the story of Fa Mulan. The advantage of those stories over the contemporary ones is that they've had 2,000 years of editing. All the crap has been weeded out over time.

The cool thing about being different in this industry is that you get different roles; you aren't pigeonholed the same way.

It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.

I don't care how many times I play 'Angry Birds.' When you have the world's cares on your shoulders and you fling those little birds at those rotten pigs, then the whole world just melts away.

I have no great desire to play a great role. You can't make quality on TV anyway. It's always a manure pile. You're on the top, or you're on the bottom, but it's still a manure pile, and I'm not sure the movie industry isn't like that, too.