Quotes About Entertainment

When television came roaring in after the war they did a little school survey asking children which they preferred and why — television or radio. And there was this 7-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

The radio is, indeed, a great blessing of the modern times. It has become a necessity now.

But live shows are cool. I just got back into the idea of enjoying it live.

People read books, didn't they, to get away from themselves, to escape the troubles of their lives?

You're bored. Two weeks without someone trying to kill us and you're bored out of your mind. Leia to Han

You write what you know, and I know rock and roll.

Audiences don't ever disappoint me, in the sense that movies I feel really good about, they usually feel really good about too.

Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box.

the splat of pies would become a regular component of slapstick, and no one was more adept at throwing them than Arbuckle. The ambidextrous actor sometimes accurately hurled two pies in opposite directions simultaneously.

Wine me, dine me, Deep Space Nine me.

I don't come on to seduce the audience. I don't care if everyone laughs. I can't think about that anymore. If there's anything that a lot of experience on stage and a lot of stage time gives you is the confidence to know that it's ok if they're not laughing every second you're up there. Although that's what drives me and I still go too fast a lot of the time.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

the movies are most people's exposure to ideas about the future.

There is nothing finer in the world than the telling of tales. Split atoms if you wish, but splitting an infinitiveand getting away with itis far nobler. Lance boils if you wish, but pricking pretensions is often cleaner and always more fun.

Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.

Puns are the gag hand buzzers of conversation. It hurts a bit but everyone gets a good laugh out of it.

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

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

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go into the library and read a good book.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

We'll meet at the theater tonight. I'll hold your seat 'til you get there. Once you get there; you're on your own.

Chico: "Here's the book, it's a dollar" Groucho: "Here's a ten, and shoot the change." Chico: "I don't have change I'd have to give you nine more books.