Quotes About Entertainment

My dad knows how to tell a story. He'd make me laugh by doing all the different voices.

If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed!

So if you've had a good time tonight, or if you've had a good time any night, for gosh sake's why not drop a dollar in the mail to me?

I see no reason why we should fill our every waking hour with brooding over the evils of the day. At least you will admit it is fun to lean back in a comfortable chair on a cold rainy evening, [...] and escape into the pages of an extravagant romance, if only for an hour or two.

We have, what, 66,000-odd guests here today? And not one of them retains even an infant's sense of self-preservation. They checked their fight-or-flight instincts at the door. That's what they're paying for. They see a fire, hear an explosion, feel their roller coaster begin to shear off its track—what are they gonna do? Laugh all the harder. Because they think it's part of the act. That makes every last one of them a sitting duck.

Today many Christians are blind to the truth about the dangers of darkness and go about entertaining the demonic.

People have this ridiculous notion that we and animals are somehow on the same level. I blame Disney films. I blame them for a lot of things.

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with a multitude of situations that can arise in a person's life. The beauty of them is that their analogies resonate so deeply and they also entertain while they teach.

My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know.

If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.

They had no comprehension of why anyone would seek out a film with an unhappy ending or buy a painting that wasn't pretty.

What strikes me as people in diners rail at each other at the counter when before they ate in silence is not how imperiled they feel, but how safe. Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. But

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. But having come so close

Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

You want your daughter to become a critical consumer of the media, so use what she's watching to help her build those skills. Swing by the couch or lean over her laptop and say, "I'm all for mindless entertainment, but you know that I'm not a big fan of shows that celebrate women for being sexy and stupid." Your daughter may roll her eyes, but do it anyway. Girls can listen and roll their eyes at the same time.

Honestly, are there any other words in the whole damned English language quite as seductive as, 'the circus is in town'?

You want a story? Go buy yourself a magazine.

I grew up watching Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell and the other guys with my dad.

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They (mothers-in-law) never leave when they say they will. When my mother-in-law visits, the mice throw themselves at the cat, begging to be eaten.

I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.

Movies were, to me, like a way out. It was an escape valve. I remember having my parents drop me off at movies all the time.

When I walk on stage, it's a release valve for me. Life is stressful anyway, so therefore, when I walk on stage, it releases all those stressful situations, and I feel good about myself.