Quotes About Entertainment

TV accustoms people to not expecting much.

There's no way I could make the case that Animal House is a better picture than Heaven Can Wait , yet on some sort of emotional-aesthetic level I prefer it.

Stuart saw Patti Page on her television show singing 'How Much Is that Doggie in the Window?' and rather fancied her –

A gente deve ir ao cinema como vai a um bordel ou a um templo.

My mom and dad are both in stand-up comedy, so that's where I started, that's where I got everything. My roots are holding the mic.

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

singing and dancing more than nudity. For many years, a 54-year-old woman who went by the stage name Mistinguett had reigned over the Casino as its chief performer, but Varna believed a staged rivalry between the two women would attract more patrons.

I know what I'll do. I'll run away. I'll join the circus. I'll juggle cats. I have experience.

Scandal is a community service and a free entertainment at that; witnesses generally feel obliged to pay admission with sympathy.

I think it is very sad that 'sitcom' has become a pejorative term.

Technology adds nothing to art. Two thousand years ago, I could tell you a story, and at any point during the story I could stop, and ask, Now do you want the hero to be kidnapped, or not? But that would, of course, have ruined the story. Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.

Trump tried to book Penn & Teller once in Vegas at one of his casinos, but we were priced out of his budget.

this is all exactly like an episode of Starsky and Hutch.

She stared at the television. "Why is it that after all the bullets have bounced off Superman's chest, he then ducks when the villain throws the empty gun at him?

Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, "Hello, how are you?"

Soccer is not about justice. It's a drama - and criminally wrong decisions against you are part and parcel of that.

The harp player had just fallen off the stage and cracked his head on an Italian tourist's pint. There was a big cheer, and Con the barman rang a bell on the counter.

I tell people I was in the U.S. Army for three and a half years in WWII -- but what did I mainly do to beat the fascists? Play the banjo.

Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

There is one thing in this world that is dumber than playing golf. That is watching someone else playing golf. What do you actually get to see? Thirty-seven guys in polyester slacks squinting at the sun. Doesn't that set your blood racing?

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

People simply couldn't resist watching someone else's misfortune.

fulfilled with the grand opening there, on 3 September 1883, of the Gaiety Palace of Varieties.