Quotes About Entertainment

We were a band without a radio format but not without a following. As always, our concerts were our bread and butter. We continued crisscrossing the country, playing our music and entertaining hundreds of thousands of concertgoers each year. I decided that as far as my recording career was concerned, from then on I would record whatever struck my fancy, without being concerned about it having to fit mainstream radio formats, whatever genre, whatever style.

There is an art to entertaining a crowd. If you've got a bevy of hit songs, you can entertain by simply playing them one after another. If you're a knockout in size 28 jeans who can take away the breath of the females in the audience by simply walking on the stage, you're entertaining. But since I have never fallen into either category, I have had to rely on other attributes.

I do like escapism. I like going to the movies on a Friday night and seeing something fun.

In Detroit, it's so fucking poor that fire is cheaper than a movie. A can of gas is $3.50 and movie is 8 bucks. But there aren't any movie theaters left in Detroit so fuck it. They burn the empty house next door and they sit on the fucking porch with a 40, and they're barbecuing and laughing because it's fucking entertainment.

I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

After all, this is wholesome, family-friendly entertainment

The trouble with movies as a business is that it's an art, and the trouble with movies as art is that it's a business.

Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!

My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.

I started playing poker in 2003 during my pregnancy, to distract myself from my awful morning sickness. For months all I did was cry and play Texas Hold'em.

I was a little shocked at how adult some of the humor was, because I was never that into animation before and when I watched 'Shrek' I really laughed out loud.

real life can be fascinating, it isn't as marketable as a tale with a plot.

Reading's my reward at the end of the day,

The customers were mainly people middle-aged or older, and they'd probably take a sledge hammer to anything that spewed out the top forty. This was Lawrence Welk country. A wild tune was a polka.

If they didn't have box hockey and baseball cards in heaven, Andy was going to be pretty bored.

I know, these Hindi movies are crap, but they do kind of take your mind away from the crap of real life like nothing else.

Just as people gather on the road to see a fistfight, India gathers at night to watch TV debates.

I made about 28 movies, and I think about five of them were good.

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to me.

Golf is the most fun you can have without taking your clothes off.

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.

Sporting News will embrace everything except Heavyweight Boxing Championship battles. They will be found in the Financial Section.

Sunday funday!

Time has convinced me of one thing. Television is for appearing on, not looking at.