Quotes About Entertainment

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

I sometimes look around that studio in the middle of commercials and think, 'Really?'

What is generally referred to as American-style films are, in fact, studio productions.

I like studio movies; I love big commercial movies.

It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week.

And the general opinion is we are much better on stage than in the studio.

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

I know that when I've passed the Jim Nabors set at our studio, I call out 'Hi Gomer,' and I can't honestly think of his real name.

I have nothing against these big CGI movies, but there are not enough of the other ones - the ones with stories about character that have a beginning, a middle and an end. I said that to a couple of studio heads and they said, 'That's novel.'

I definitely don't like red carpets. I go on the red carpet because I have to but I'm not a big fan. That's not my thing. I'd rather be in the studio making music and performing.

Emoting songs onscreen comes naturally to me since we do emote in the studio behind the mike as well. But acting in a full-length Bollywood film is a completely different ball game.

I was in Studio 54 one time; it was great. But I'm not a discotheque guy. Sometimes, if I had a new demo, I went to some discotheques to check it out - see how the reactions of the people were. But just to dance, I rarely did that.

You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.

Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.

We still have that same burn, to get that same kind of laughs. So whether the studio wants us to or not, we're going to do it. The money is just a byproduct of coming out with good stuff. Our whole thing is building that rapport with the audience.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.

Big studio comedies are such a headache.

The crew members for 'The Price Is Right' at night are the same guys who work 'Y&R' during the day. It's even in the same studio. I've been in the place for 15 years. So all the faces at 'The Price Is Right' are familiar.

There wasn't an episode of 'Will & Grace' that didn't begin with my voice saying, 'Will & Grace' is taped before a live studio audience.

On Letterman and Leno, it always bothers me when they go outside the studio and it's daytime.

Oftentimes, when you have a huge studio film and you have big names attached, they like to keep attaching big names.