Quotes About Entertainment

Age and use do not make a style obsolete in the church as they do in secular entertainment; rather, they consecrate it.

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The police they believe the police believe the president the history the education the media what entertainment taught them the world they know the worst they carry. That's how we know this is not a mental health issue. This is not an isolated issue. This is not deserving of or serving us.

Television is the first truly democratic culture -- the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out

A film has to star Steven Seagal or Chuck Norris before it begins to pose a bigger threat to the language than yellow journalism.)

Parenthood and family come first for me, and when I'm not working I'm cool with the Teletubbies.

The financial implode is bound to be reflected in the movies that are being made, there's no question.

I'd like to do a film which is funny.

You live but once; you might as well be amusing.

One thing is sure. Entertainment is important. Without it, the entire human race would go mad within a matter of hours.

All the great sages of history have made the same mistake. They think people want work, tasks, direction. What people really want is entertainment

Eventually, with new Entertainment-dedicated technologies already on the horizon, the Warhol vision would come about, and everyone would have a show of their own. Eventually the old world would be cut quite loose. Performance Mirrors face to face, the shows would reflect one another until there was 'nothing but interviews, appearances, and acts. In full development, the whole industrial and technical base of contemporary society would be committed to support this new pyramid culture'.

My life will not be significantly impoverished if I never see another Shakespearian comedy.

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

The raconteur knows too well that, if he investigates the truth of the matter, he is only too likely to lose his good story.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution

The only danger, perhaps, is that if the predicted day arrives when each of us has at home a color television set with a screen the size of a wall, carrying sports events originated on all continents, we may never get outdoors again.

Washing machines, vacuum cleaners and other appliances came to the aid of three quarters of American housewives. Motion pictures and the wireless brought new enjoyment to millions during their hours of leisure.

Where there's a ventriloquist, there's a dummy.

You know how sad your life is when you know the release date of DVDs.

Gambling is not a vice, if you can afford to do it.

Where the fuck is Mickey!? Fuck's sake! If there's no Mickey, this shit ain't Disney!