Quotes About Entertainment

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

When I was growing up we didn't have cable. All that came on Saturday morning was Notre Dame football, and I was there every time to watch it.

I'm a novelist first, and I wrote a bunch of books, and everything I write, I just find people are more interesting when there's an element of humor to it.

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.

I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

Sometimes I - I try not to read too many fiction or novels.

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Novels are make-believe and play for adults.

I read novels for entertainment rather than for edification, so I tend not to read the sort of novels that are said to illuminate the human condition.

When you're a kid, you think 'Oh, it's so great. I'm going to go to Hollywood. I'm going to go to Broadway.' For a long time, it was such a novelty.

We're a great part of the show... we're a novelty on the show. I think having one Divas match a night really makes it special, and I'm proud to be a part of it and hope to take it to the next level.

Being the family's literate one, my wife doesn't watch television much, preferring third-world novels, though she'll sit in now and then when I have on Jon Stewart.

I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'

I get great satisfaction nowadays when people come up and say 'I used to hate you when I was little' or 'you used to make me mad' - well that was the desired effect.

Audiences are brutally honest nowadays. If they don't like an actor, they have all the right to write him off.

Nowadays the audience has changed. No one can anticipate the audience.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

Nowadays, most educated people would just as soon stay home and watch 'Breaking Bad' as shell out a hundred bucks to see a Broadway play - assuming that there are any plays on Broadway worth seeing, which long ago ceased to be a safe bet.

Everything is social media nowadays, everything is sports and entertainment.

Television, nowadays, is like doing really long films.

The shows being made nowadays are very similar, very regressive. We are talking about the type of '60s, '70s kind of films, and similar stories are being shown on TV today. Only rehashed and glossy. It does not interest me.