Quotes About Entertainment

Every comedian is just doing the comedy they find funny. This is me and it's not clean in any way. I could get a lot more work on TV playing clean but it's never interesting.

I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

If we do not work for individual transformation, talking about world peace is just entertainment.

I only want my work to make people happy.

I don't watch daytime television, I have a job, I work and, you know, I think daytime television is really for women.

The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months and then I can have six months off. And then I can work for six months and have six months off.

Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.

With any other celebrity, people come up and say, 'Hey, I really like your work.' But with my fans, when they see me, they don't even say hello. They just go, 'AWWWWWGHGHHHGHGHRRR!'

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don't have to do any work.

Comedy is so fun. I don't know how these people can make movies and work on them for four months and they're these sob stories. I don't know how emotionally you get through that.

My work is a mitzvah for the eyes & ears...and it will help you forget about your problems by thinking about mine for a change!

Do you know what makes a movie work? Moments. Give the audience half a dozen moments they can remember, and they'll leave the theatre happy.

Acting is what I love to do. I wouldn't trade it for the world. I don't think of it as work. It's really fun for me.

They make a humongous profit, but the people that work on the shows don't get paid a lot because they're working on the Oscars show. It's the biggest show in the world.

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"

Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.

I think that there's no doubt that to work in film is a bit more of a creative journey. It's not that I don't put the same time or heart into something that's on television.

The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.