Quotes About Entertainment

Richard Dyer (1985) tells us that entertainment embodies "what utopia would feel like rather than how it would be organised.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.

Yet the bookshelf is also conspicuous in its absence. When we enter a living room without books or bookshelves, we wonder if the people in the house do nothing but watch television.

There will be no real life There will be the alcohol circus

Now shut the fuck up and watch some MTV.

He regarded his whole life as a continual round of amusement which someone for some reason had to provide for him.

He entered his wife's drawing-room as one enters a theatre, was acquainted with everybody, equally pleased to see everyone and equally indifferent to them all.

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them. —BLAISE PASCAL

I don't have many famous friends, really, except Simon Cowell.

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Comic books, movies, radio programmes centered their entertainment around the fact of torture. With the clearest of consciences, with a patriotic intensity, children dreamed, talked, acted orgies of physical abuse. Imaginations were released to wander on a reconnaissance mission from Cavalry to Dachau. European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge.

The following tale of alien encounters is true. And by true, I mean false. It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth? The answer is: No.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy.

Entertainment is the devil's substitute for joy. The more joy you have in the Lord the less entertainment you need.

I just want to keep doing what I'm doing and hopefully people will watch my movies.

The curtain is going up.

Le geishe erano danzatrici, musiciste e conversatrici che occupavano una specifica nicchia nei massimi livelli della società nipponica. Non erano assolutamente prostitute, né di alto né di basso bordo.

I remember him launching into "Radio Ga Ga". It wasn't even dark, he was whipping up all this magic in daylight. That ocean of fans clapping and stamping together just sent shivers down your spine. For us, it was heaven.

She was in the mood then for some of the more boisterous native entertainment, so he walked her a couple of blocks up Bay Street to the Junkanoo, where it was noisy enough to make any but the most succinct and rudimentary forms of conversation impossible. It was a respite of sorts, if not

Let's see what you've got—as the actress said to the bishop