Quotes About Entertainment

The famous British actress Beatrice Lillie was once onstage in Ontario, Canada, performing in Noël Coward's This Year of Grace, the entire cast lined up to one side of her. She was singing "Britannia Rules the Waves," when she mistakenly began to sing the second verse twice, before moving to the third. She realized what she was doing but had to carry forward with it. The cast froze in place instead of moving to center stage—which

I read to keep from being sad.

She wondered what it was about storytelling that made people want it almost as much as food and water, even more so in bad times than good. Movies had never drawn more patrons than during the Great Depression. Book sales often improved in a recession. The need went beyond a mere desire for entertainment and distraction from one's troubles. It was more profound and mysterious than that.

Women don't find me as appealing as they do, say, that singer Justin Bieber. But I take comfort from the fact that Justin Bieber wouldn't know how to escape from a walk-in freezer after being chained there by a couple of huge guys in porkpie hats. He couldn't sing his way out of a spot like that; inevitably, he would be a Biebersicle.

Any assemblage of frenetic images, bad music, and incoherent plot is called a major motion picture.

Casinos have no windows, no clocks. The masters of the games want their customers to forget the passage of time, to lay down just one more bet, and then one more.

Lacking television, radio, or internet, she hoards seven CD players with six-disc magazines

Nobody wanted to read sucky novels, and those people who wanted deep meaning didn't want it in every damn story

Olivia wondered whose idea it was to see the play. To Kill a Mockingbird wasn't the sort of entertainment she suspected a man like Warren would choose. The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas seemed more his kind of show.

television in the summer was just plain bad.

El pueblo, eterno esclavo de los tiranos que lo oprimen, de los bribones que lo engañan y de los bufones que lo divierten.

Good movies, man, they give you another life. A whole other future for a while.

World Wide Waste of Time (specifically

Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in reciting lines to himself, being careful not to snort.

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I thought he'd have an apoplexy on the spot," Grey said, lips twitching. "Likely wishes he had." Grey looked at Tom, Tom at Grey, and they burst into suffocated snorts of laughter at the memory of the Honorable Mr. Braythwaite's face on this occasion. "Come, come," Lord John said, getting himself under control. "This will never do. Have you—

I hope my daughter will be able to see shows starring Asian people that has nothing to do with an Asian story.

America is the NBA of culture. So to have Asian people in the biggest entertainment market in the world, in Hollywood, is cool.

I don't care if you're an Asian fan or an American fan: I'm happy to perform.

Someone I've always admired is Catherine O'Hara... I think she's one of the best actresses in the country, not only comedy. I just think she's just a step aside from everybody, she's just wonderful.

It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?'

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, and so on.

I easily fall asleep during a movie.

When I am not acting or practising dance, you'll find me fast asleep!