Quotes About Entertainment

My toughest decisions had been whether to catch the afternoon showing of Mrs. Doubtfire or play bingo.

Entertainment's chief job is to make you so riveted by it that you can't tear your eyes away, so the advertisers can advertise.

Sviare l'attenzione, il segreto è tutto lì, tesoro. Non hai bisogno di chissà quali marchingegni, botole, casse con il doppio fondo, tavoli strani. Ho sempre sostenuto che un uomo disposto a imparare come si svia l'attenzione della gente può sfilare un oggetto dalla tasca, metterlo in un cappello e infine estrarlo. Resteranno tutti a bocca aperta, chiedendosi da dove è spuntata quella roba.

Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

To watch the behaviour of a fine lady to other and humbler women is a very good sport for a philosophical frequenter of Vanity Fair.

He was rather dull, perhaps, but would not such wine make any conversation pleasant?

Singers are the happiest horses' asses.

And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

Jesters do oft prove prophets.

Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.

great while ago the world began,      With hey-ho, the wind and the rain;   But that's all one, our play is done,      And we'll strive to please you every day.     Exit

I, sir, am Dromio; command him away. I, sir, am Dromio; pray, let me stay.

O, that is entertainment My bosom likes not, nor my brows!

Away with the joint-stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell. Antony, and Potpan!

Tis ten to one this play can never please All that are here. Some come to take their ease And sleep an act or two; but those, we fear, W' have frighted with our trumpets.

I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal. I saw him put down the other day with an 80   ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take these wise men, that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better than the fools' zanies.

Come, come, be every one officious To make this banquet; which I wish may prove More stern and bloody than the Centaurs' feast.

Say, what abridgement have you for this evening? What masque, what music? How shall we beguile The lazy time if not with some delight?

Every film is political. Most political of all are those that pretend not to be: 'entertainment' movies. They are the most political films there are because they dismiss the possibility of change. In every frame they tell you everything's fine the way it is. They are a continual advertisement for things as they are.

A joke is a very serious thing.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Don Giovanni, you invited me to sup with you: I have come.

In California, they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.