Quotes About Entertainment

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work, or daytime television.

I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.

The publishers and others should quit worrying about losing customers to TV. The guy who can sit through a trio of deodorant commercials to look at Flashgun Casey or swallow a flock of beer and loan-shark spiels in order to watch a couple of fourth-rate club fighters rub noses on the ropes is not losing any time from book reading.

Theatre is life. Cinema is art. Television is furniture.

I have long thought, and still think, that radio is magic. Television is OK, but radio is magic. If television had been invented first and then radio had come along, people would think, "What a wonderful thing this radio is! It's like television except you don't have to look at it!"

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners.

I wasn't satisfied with "Stuart Little" on TV, but I didn't expect to be... It is the fixed purpose of television and motion pictures to scrap the author, sink him without a trace, on the theory that he is incompetent, has never read his own stuff, is not responsible for anything he ever wrote, and wouldn't know what to do about it even if he were.

I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV.

But the point is that one of television's greatest contributions is that it brought murder back into the home where it belongs. Seeing a murder on television can be good therapy. It can help work off one's antagonism. And, if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off.

The score belongs on the society pages. To preserve the spirit of the occasion, the teams should have played in tuxes or swallowtail coats and corsages. It's not an athletic event anymore, it's a carnival. Mardi Gras with first downs.

Is there a point at which every Sunday during the NFL season ceases to make a man feel like a kid on Christmas morning?

Saturday Night Live

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.

Grandmother: A babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television set.

...one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

One cannot have too large a party.

Where the hostess is handsome the wine is good.

So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free.

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 seven-year-old boy who said he preferred radio "because the pictures were better."

In general, they refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV.

So after this is all over, do the producers of My 600 Pound Life find me or do I need to find them?

Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it.

I had an attitude about some work, like television sitcoms. It was selling your soul.