Quotes About Entertainment

My dad's sense of humor was direct and sometimes surreal - his quick wit is well known amongst our family and friends. He raised me on Spike Jones records and W.C. Fields movies, and his sense of humor fell somewhere in between.

People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I'm like, 'No, families mess up kids!' I grew up in Hollywood, and I'm perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won't stop them, as long as they're passionate about it.

Meanwhile the Hemulen was arranging firework set pieces in suitable places. They had Bengal Lights, Blue-Star Rain, Silver Fountains, and Rockets that exploded with stars.

Me and my mum send most of our time on the phone discussing EastEnders: Grant and Tiffany; the prospect of Sharon returning to the square, perhaps with Michelle Fowler, both with babies, both fathered by Grant; the happy irony of Michelle and Sharon being truly related. We all slip into these unreal worlds as a release from the daily drudgery.

I'm learning as much martial arts as I possibly can. My show is packed with action. Enough to get a rise.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Stand-up don't get no respect - it's the hardest thing to do in show business. You don't have no band and there's no music.

I am a great believer that what makes our show different is the humor.

The wonderful thing about Food for Thought is that it lets you keep your hand in theater and be in front of a live audience without a commitment of six months, or even three months.

Video Killed the Radio Star

When I was growing up in New Jersey, my mom would regularly take my sister and I into the city to see shows. I have many fond memories of standing in the half-price ticket line in Times Square and going to matinees.

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

Hollywood loves aliens.

There is a learning quality in all of our shows.

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.

For me taking part in the decay of present-day man is an entertaining task and the only one that interests me.

'True Blood' is amazing. I have to give a shout out to 'Melrose Place' because I do watch. I love 'Entourage.' One of my favorite shows back in the day was 'Friday Night Lights.'

ALL RIGHT, NIGHTWING, HERE'S A BLANK SCROLL. GO AHEAD AND TRY TO CONVINCE ME THAT YOU'RE A DRAGON WHO EVEN DESERVES TO LIVE, LET ALONE ONE I SHOULD WASTE MY TIME ON. I DO ENJOY BEING AMUSED.

She really really REALLY wished she'd brought a book with her.

Entertainment value," offered Qibli.

How many of you would rather go to a meeting than a movie?" No hands went up. "Why not?" After a pause, Jeff realized that her question was not a rhetorical one. "Because movies are more interesting. Even the bad ones." His peers chuckled. Kathryn smiled. "Right. But if you really think about it, meetings should be at least as interesting as movies.

In reality the gatherings were held in order to entertain these few Moslem guests, to whom the unaccountable behavior of Europeans never ceased to be a fascinating spectacle. Most of the Europeans, of course, thought the Moslem gentlemen were invited to add local color.

He'd actually done it! He leaned back into the microphone and whispered to the now silent cave: 'Come to the Cabaret!