Quotes About Entertainment

The ientcio wishes to inform you that we have indeed received those messages from SETI and have found them … amusing is probably the best word. Television is much more interesting.

I wish I had this screen in my living room, Harry said. I'd have had the most popular Super Bowl parties on the block.

Other countries pass laws requiring that their movie theaters, television networks, and radio stations have to play a certain percentage of homegrown entertainment. Because if they didn't, Hollywood would wipe it all out. We're not a world leader because we have nuclear missiles and submarines. We are because we have Bugs Bunny and Friends. Our planet is what Hollywood has made it.

When you serve a beer-cock an ear.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with sorrow.

Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.

I seen her beat the hell out of a tin peddler with a live chicken one time 'cause he give her a argument. She had the chicken in one han', an' the ax in the other, about to cut its head off. She aimed to go for that peddler with the ax, but she forgot which hand was which, an' she takes after him with the chicken. Couldn' even eat that chicken when she got done. They wasn't nothing but a pair a legs in her han'. Grampa throwed his hip outa joint laughin'. How'd my folks go so easy?

Die christliche Sitte, träge aufrecht dazusitzen wie bei einer Unterhaltungsveranstaltung, deutet darauf hin, dass Gott als Unterhaltungskünstler gilt, der von der Bühne entfernt und durch eine andere Nummer ersetzt werden kann, wenn er nicht mehr unterhält.

How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder.

When Elvis made his mass-media debut on 'The Ed Sullivan Show' - his notorious gyrations filmed only from the waist up - I fell off the family chaise longue with delight.

In general my children refuse to eat anything that hasn't danced in television.

'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

When I was five or six, I asked to sing at a big family party, and ever since I got up there in front of everyone in my suit - it had a blue collar, like in 'Scarface' - I had the bug.

The function of art is to bring people into greater touch with reality, and yet our movie houses and family rooms are jammed with people after as much reality-removal as they can get.

The Parent Trap gave my career another boost, starring in family comedies.

I converted a family-owned strip club into an improvisational acting theater.

You know this old style of American family series? Well, I sit there and cry.

I consider the television set as the American fireplace, around which the whole family will gather.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Lord, thy one-liners are as good as thy tricks. Thou art indeed an all-round family entertainer.