Quotes About Entertainment

At a certain point, we're either gonna have to put away childish things and discipline ourself about how much time do I spend being passively entertained? And how much time do I spend doing stuff that actually isn't all that much fun minute by minute, but that builds certain muscles in me as a grown-up and a human being?

If television is a quick detour to mass stupidity, then video games are the express lane.

There are three kinds of people in this modern world; gamer boy eunuchs, cell phone nymphos and book readers. The most valuable are the very vulnerable book readers.

Trump? Obama? Putin? Why must we pity the politi-scum addicted to their own infallible "godliness" when there are more entertaining alternatives?

Oh damn and fuck show business and all its ways.

Artisans prefer not to get too serious about things, and will try to keep everyone smiling — to keep the party going — as long as possible.

It's nice to watch television but it's even nicer when you've got a drink in your hand,' Gregory Ratcliffe, a Birmingham shopkeeper, told Reynolds News. 'Makes it more intimate somehow. Gives you the feeling that you're in a posh cabaret.

She's cinematic and I'm a fucking sitcom.

Then I go in the den and turn on Law & Order, since the only thing i can really count on in life is that whenever I turn on the TV, there will be a Law & Order episode.

This should be the most homoerotically charged baseball dance number since "I Don't Dance" in High School Musical 2.

You look about as tiny as Idina Menzel's voice.

This, I've discovered, is the best way to waste time, because it isn't really wasted -- surrounded by friends, talking crap and sometimes talking for real, with snacks around and something on a screen.

This, I've discovered, is the best way to waste time, because it isn't really wasted - surrounded by friends, talking crap and sometimes talking for real, with snacks around and something on a screen -A

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience." - David Levithan

antsy, adj. I swore I would never take you to the opera again.

David Foster Wallace: We sit around and bitch about how TV has ruined the audience for reading—when really all it's done is given us the really precious gift of making our job harder.

Because we're gonna get so interested in entertainment that we're not gonna want to do the work that generates the income that buys the products that pays for the advertising that disseminates the entertainment.

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.

When you come into the theater, you have to be willing to say, We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what is going on in this world. If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.

In 'a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome,' as T.S. Eliot said of television, Good Ol' Charlie Brown could be king.

Thanks stadium pal!

there's a reason regular people don't appear on TV: we're boring.

Watch, hell,' Walt said. 'This is strip poker. What kind of homo wants to sit around and watch four guys get naked?

Right, I breast feed baby camels in my backyard just for the freaking fun of it. Just tell me where you live, Pinocchio, and save the baloney for lunch.