Quotes About Entertainment

Anytime I could make Carl laugh, I knew I had a winner.

Surprise is one of the most universally accepted formulas for humor. A joke is a story, and a surprise ending is usually its finale.

You may not like the humor, but that is why every radio has an on-off button.

Whenever I did a good performance, my Dad and my uncles, who were rabid movie fans, took me to the movies. There began my underlying love affair with film.

You don't know what someone's going to walk away from a movie with, but you hope it's something positive, but if nothing, you want them most basically to be entertained and engaged. That's your job. But you also hope to give them something to chew on or maybe some insight into the human existence, you hope a little bit. Not to sound too lofty.

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Eight hundred forty-three television stations, and there didn't appear to be much more worth watching than when we lived in the black-and-white wasteland of channels two through thirteen.

Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.

A psychiatrist is a man who goes to the Folies-Bergère and looks at the audience.

I don't know why I don't watch a lot of movies I can barely keep up with the things my friends are in. There isn't enough time in life.

The more you are in this business, the more humbled by it you become.

My mom used to have a lot of European cinema playing in the house, so I'd catch bits and pieces of films.

Voltaire once said that God was merely a comedian playing before an audience that was afraid to laugh?

It is really cool to have created a movie that has turned out to become the biggest movie of the year.

Entertainment in its broadest sense- popular ballads, vaudeville, films, sculptures, plays, paintings, pornography, pulp novels-- has not only been a primary mode of expression of LGBT identity, but one of the most effective means of social change. Ironically, the enormous political power of these forms was often understood by the people who wanted to ban them, not by the people who were simply enjoying them.

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

THEY'RE NOT DOLLS. THEY'RE ACTION FIGURES!

Funny things happen to you in movies for silly reasons.

They'd lived their lives on tightropes, never knowing where the next paycheck was coming from or if one was coming at all, their personal lives a mishmash of backstage affairs and dressing room brawls endured for the brief heady adrenaline rush brought by the orchestra's overture and glare of white lights.

I really don't have favorites I'm just a fan of movies, period.

The law, you know, can be a dreary business. A little harmless diversion is certainly required, from time to time. As a corrective.

The truth is no excuse for a boring story".

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.