Quotes About Entertainment

George Burns was a Vaudeville performer I particularly loved.

The piano has been drinking, not me.

I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.

George Bush is a fan of mine, he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

Las Vegas is the only town in the world whose skyline is made up neither of buildings, like New York, nor of trees, like Wilbraham, Massachusetts, but signs.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

Clowns taste funny.

Personally I don't care to watch a bunch of millionaires throw balls at each other.

The first time I ever did stand up comedy a guy yelled out "Down in front". So I just sat down and watched the rest of the movie.

The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.

My incarceration was actually a positive thing from the beginning. I needed a gimmick to get my act going again, it gave me material.

I've made some bad movies. And I really enjoyed it!

Esqueça o "culto-entretenimento". (...) Acho que o Senhor procura aqueles (poucos) que realmente O amam, não aqueles que só querem ser entretidos.

He narrowed his eyes to slits so that he could peer into the eyes of this shameless, strutting personage to whom, apparently, modesty was unknown. He took careful note of the fact that the king - "Lucy," the priest called him - was not glaring venomously. King Lucy was grinning, King Lucy was having a good time.

I'm world famous, everywhere I go there are people who love me because of I've been able to bring them some joy from the movies I've made.

Seréis nuestros invitados hasta que os canséis de nuestra hospitalidad.

And you know, whether it's drama or comedy, the best work is based on truth. It's just that, with comedy, the circumstances are just crazy-heightened, and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully, because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.

What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol Burnett Show'. Tim Conway is just... I just watched him so many times do stuff over and over. He's just so amazing.

It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.

'Breaking Bad' is the best, the greatest, the most amazing thing I have ever watched on television.

You don't go to the movies to do historical research, unless it's historical research about the movies.

We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.

Watching television is the mental and emotional equivalent of eating junk food.

All my movies, like Revenge, are under two hours.