Quotes About Entertainment

I have more fun hanging out with my friends who are musicians and rock stars. You know politicians by and large are pretty stiff, pretty rehearsed.

There's been a stigma out there that cartoons only equal kids.

When I was first starting out, if you were acting on television, it was a real stigma.

If they can look past the fact that I happen to wear mascara on stage - which, by the way, is a ridiculous thing that people have a stigma about - then we promise a good rock show.

The stigma of movie actors doing television is gone now.

There is a stigma attached to people who go from singing to acting.

I still love to do the old songs. I know some people don't.

I still believe that 'No Smoking' is one of my best performances.

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But this is all fun. I look at it like smoke and mirrors. I still think it's a dream, but I ain't pinching myself yet.

Tarantino's 'Django' amused me very much. It is as made by an adult that was still a child.

I say this to everybody: 'Watters World' makes you laugh, and then 'Watters World' makes you cry, because it is shocking, and even I myself am still shocked at some of the answers when I go out.

I want to make all kinds of movies. I do want to make big movies that are a lot of fun to go to, but I also want to make movies that are going to stimulate some thought and maybe raise some awareness.

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

I added and deleted according to the audiences' response to different gestures, and chose songs to build an act that would constantly stimulate my audience.

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.

We're living in a high-tech world. So much of our stimulus and entertainment comes from things that are quite abstract and disembodied.

I used to watch old clips of Muhammad Ali, where he'd be talking the jive during interviews, you know, 'Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, rumble, man, rumble.'

I'm a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.

Nothing takes the sting out of these tough economic times like watching a bunch of millionaires giving golden statues to each other.

I've always loved old school wrestling: Tully Blanchard, Arn Anderson, Ric Flair, Sting, Hot Stuff Eddie Gilbert. To me, that's the golden age of professional wrestling.

When I watch a film, I watch it as an audience instead of thinking as an actor or an intellectual. I see whether it made me laugh, get involved or shocked me at certain points. Something has to stir inside me.

I want to be embraced by the audience, but it's fun to stir up the pot.

Dylan Moran, my favourite comedian, was walking down the street in Edinburgh. I nearly got run over as I sprinted up to him to tell him I was his biggest fan. His stand-up comedy gives me a stitch from laughing.

When you are a face for a long time and you turn heel, your stock value immediately goes up, especially if you're able to pull it off in the ring and on the mic. Then you ride that horse as long as you can. When it starts to falter, and when attendance drops, then you can turn back babyface. And your stock value goes up again.