Quotes About Entertainment

P.G. Wodehouse

Lady Jane held the English view that visitors like to be left to themselves.

Television has a satanic influence.

A good movie had never once affected me in the same life-changing way a good book could. Books had the power to alter my view of the world forever. A great movie could change my perceptions for a day.

Again, I know that story is suspect in the high precincts of American fiction, but only because it brings entertainment and pleasure, the same responses that have always driven puritanical spirits at the dinner table wild when the talk turns to sexual intercourse and incontinence.

I could rent Caesar out at birthday parties. Halloween parties. I could take pictures of Caesar eating a piece of birthday cake. Or a picture of a kid riding Caesar on his birthday. We could build a saddle.

This tension stimulated the gland of entertainment in me and I found myself in the role of master of revels, the evening fool, with cards in my sleeves and a ready joke for every interval of silence.

the world has become a reality TV show.

the minister would say something like: "We come from God and we're going to God," and the biologist would respond, "We evolved from apes and we're going extinct." They will prove nothing except that we viewers will watch anything if it's sufficiently hyped.

I can't wait for this to come out in the movies in October!

According to the study, the vast majority of university students, after clicking on a depressing news article about arctic ice melt or species extinction, would quickly exit that page in favor of something trivial that purged their minds of fear; favorite choices included sports highlights, funny cat videos, and celebrity gossip.

Perhaps Nemes and her kind will keep it in a zoo to hunt it when they are bored.

That all plays, bear baitings, 88 games, singing of ballads, buckler play, 89 or such like causes of assemblies of people, be utterly prohibited, and the parties offending severely punished by every alderman in his ward.

The movie was kickass, which was appropriate, because tonight it was called Kickass: The Movie.

Don't break my heart just yet, or ask me to lose my reverie on the sticky floor... let me believe I'm the guy they all paid to watch all big and mighty, in the dark where I guess I belong.

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.

I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your brain at the door, buy some popcorn and be thrilled by something.

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book.

Netflix, I love you.

Pain is funnier than love.

I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.

Summer is a great opportunity for all of cable. People love to find original episodes.

This...is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.

At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents.