Quotes About Entertainment

I went to my first live concert when I was seven, with my mum Eleanor, a staunch Rod Stewart fan. I've never looked back.

If you're going to stay in the Olympics, you've got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.

The only way to stay sharp is to do live shows. There is no part-time comedy.

More eccentric characters can push pretty far, but if you stay on the side of reality, it's always funnier.

Some films are pure entertainment of course, but what interests me and what I want to do are projects that really make you think, that move you, that will bring you something that will stay with you for a while. I think films are essential to the intellectual awakening of people.

If the 'Chappelle's Show' had stayed on, I seriously doubt I would have developed this fast as a stand-up comedian. I probably would never have taken stand-up comedy really seriously.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

I could have stayed in L.A. and done sitcoms for awhile and will probably go back and do one I hope.

To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

I stayed in show business to pay for my animal business.

I always liked having a good time. I got into this business because I got fired from any job I ever had because I stayed out late playing music.

I do come from theater. I didn't spend a lot of time there 'cause once I started in television, I just kind of stayed there.

The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.

My father took me to a lot of sports events as a child, and our TV stayed on ESPN.

Norman Lear was talking about everything in the '70s... race, sexism, all of it. The network comedy really stayed away from that in the 1980s and 1990s.

I have always stayed away from TV. It never made sense to me.

When TV came along some years back I purposely stayed away from drama.

I like to watch Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, because I like them when they travel. I like Ina Garten, 'The Barefoot Contessa.' Giada is really nice, but I get a little bit bored with just staying in the kitchen.

In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.

I'm never going to try 'Carpool Karaoke' in New York. That would be a very different thing. Mariah Carey's one, we just drove, like, five or six blocks round where she was staying at the time.

I only ever agreed to appear in 'Corrie' for two months, but I ended up staying a lot longer. I really enjoyed it.

Staying home and watching French movies is what I normally like to do.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

What made me a comedian was staying on the stage and starting to talk.