Quotes About Entertainment

The highest paid members of our society are not the people who teach us, heal us, or lead us in worship; the people we are willing to award with inordinate sums of money are the people who entertain us.

Writing: When Rock Around the Clock was shown in the cinemas in 1956, teenagers got so excited by the music that there was dancing in the aisles. Imagine that you are a newspaper reporter who has just been to see the film. Write your 'story' for tomorrow's paper.

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.

I have an inability to enjoy things, but that's why we're in comedy. If we were happy, we wouldn't be funny, I guess.

The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it's impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you can't just go, 'Hey, there's a great movie - we're not going to show you anything from it but trust us!'

I love funny people, and when I'm with funny people, or people who are amusing in their weirdness, I love it. Because that to me is funny, as opposed to someone who stops and says, 'Hey let me tell you a joke.'

Any man who watches three games of football in a row should be declared legally dead." – Erma Bombeck

I don't know who the hell Paul Lynde is, or why he's funny, and I prefer it to be a mystery to me.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

It's real hard to come off as even slightly superior when you're living a Tom and Jerry episode.

Of course I know Julie Andrews. She's the last of the really great broads.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

I can't get past the fact that food is coming out of my wife's breasts. What was once essentially an entertainment center has now become a juice bar.

So many people are miserable. They need someone to entertain them. Why can't it be me?

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience.

I've had cameos on some cool shows.

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The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

Minnie's casseroles were bottomless. The guests grew stunned with food and wine. They could have been picked off with peashooters one by one.

Every normal person used to be able to produce at least some of their own entertainment...But we have changed from a people who could produce their own everyday amusements to consumers; passive consumers.

When we championed trash culture we had no idea it would become the only culture.