Quotes About Entertainment

I do my own stunts. You see someone like Graham Norton would have had a stunt double, but no, I give 100 per cent to my viewers.

Our viewers are loyal. They've seen Pat and me together for 30 years. It's like Ken and Barbie. How do you break them up?

In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.

Obviously, SNL has a lot of viewers, but the potential for a movie is through the roof.

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

You know, we've got so much on Bravo and coming up on Bravo, and I think we have so much more going on than 'The Real Housewives.' And I think 'The Real Housewives' is a great, you know, great addition to the portfolio. I think it brings a lot of viewers under our umbrella. And I think they stay and sample other shows.

With anything, and especially with the pallet of viewers in watching anything on TV and film, you have to entertain them.

Television viewers, they've been around a long time. They've been watching this thing now for 50 years. I mean, they know exactly what's happening when it comes to television programming. You can't put anything over on them anymore.

Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each week on all platforms, and nobody seems to want to tell us. If a disproportionate number of any show's viewers watch in alternative ways, then, under the current system, that show may not appear to be as strong as it actually is.

It's great that 'Glee' is making viewers more aware of the arts. People appreciate it.

What I look for in a project or partner is integrity and character; I love the concept of family entertainment and crosses over the generations, where you can sit kids with their grandparents and everyone has a good time. Those are the qualities that I want to bring to viewers.

Ultimately, criticism that 'The Real World' has devolved into a lesser enterprise comes from the viewers who came of age alongside it, not the teens of the moment that MTV has always existed for.

Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber.

Network television has been attempting to lure viewers for years with its low-interest programming only to have those viewers discover later that their brains are bankrupt.

We've seen other Internet people go to TV, and it's bad because they take two months off to make a pilot, and their viewers have forgotten about them when they come back.

I think my viewers want smart, honest programming. They don't want to be told what makes them feel good.

When I entered TV, I realised that it's not just all about art, but it has a business dimension as well. You need to take care of yourself. I also learned who my viewers are.

You don't want to bash viewers over the head with a blunt message or lecture them - they'd soon get bored with that.

A lot of entertainment, and especially in a half-hour format, can be all jokes, all the time. And some of those jokes can be really, really funny, but what I respond to, as a viewers, is identification or caring about the characters.

Since most of our films cater to crossover audiences, I think it's time we make films for multilingual viewers.

I've avoided doing a network comedy, because I wouldn't get my own way. Even though it would get more viewers, it wouldn't be mine.

I'm not an entertainer - that's not what I do. I want to teach viewers; I want to show them. I want to share my culture.

I really focus on giving the viewers compelling television, and hope that more and more people watch.

A lot of female viewers who may not have known about wrestling or watched it before are tuning in now because of 'Total Divas.'