Quotes About Entertainment

I remember the first time I felt that I was sharing the stage with someone spectacular was dancing with Beyonce. It was the dancers, the band, Beyonce and me in front of thousands of people. That was sick. It was pretty amazing that I got to travel the world with someone like her.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

Audiences want to see intelligent movies.

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don't care if it's a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.

You know, my movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

Every time I do a movie like 'Finding Neverland' or 'Chocolat' or 'Shakespeare' in Love ' we deal with the creative process, but there's humor and fun along the way. I always love that kind of movie.

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

My movies are important on an economic basis, on an artistic basis.

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them.

I'll be here in my home with three big screens. I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more.

I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again.

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.

So with nothing to do but algebra, Vlad settled down in front of the television with controller in hand.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular."

The simplest way to do something cool is the cross-turn. Like in the '80s - Michael Jackson did it. You jump and cross your legs together at the same time, and then spin out of it. That's it.

Hey, Dad. Mary Ann and I were just about to perform our pieces from the show. Would you and Mom like to watch?" Dad smiles. "We would love it. "Give us five minutes, and we'll meet you in the living room," I tell Dad.

Bedtime could only be followed by TV. Or drinking.

I will not allow myself to entertain that though. Yeah, right. I'm not only entertaining that though, I'm taking it out to dinner and a movie. The goal is to focus on the now and to figure out how to reclaim your past. Or the parallel. Or my sanity. Too much thinking never solved anything.

Video screens can offer many useful things: entertainment, information, even distraction from stress. But they can't make goofy faces, give hugs, or provide a deep sense of safety and security.

It's not just about entertainment. It's about telling stories that audiences connect with emotionally. The way to do this is to make our films personal, to make certain they mean something to our directors.

Eat, drink, smoke, swim in the ocean, play tennis, golf, and poker, watch polo, read trash, listen to pop singers, occasionally attend the theatre, opera, ballet, charity bashes, and private shindigs, buy clothes and trinkets, write to old friends, party with new friends, and sleep. I think that about covers it.

Radicalism usually prospers in the gap between rising expectations and declining opportunities. This is especially true where the population is young, idle, and bored; where the art is impoverished; where entertainment—movies, theater, music—is policed or absent altogether; and where young men are set apart from the consoling and socializing presence of women.