Quotes About Entertainment

When I watch television, I want to be surprised.

That's how you get surprises, because what movies are all about is surprises.

Pro wrestling fans love surprises, so let's surprise them, and not just give them the old stuff.

There are going to be some real surprises in 'Fable 2.'

On 'EastEnders,' if someone gets surprising news on the phone, the scene ends with them looking at their handset in amazement. No one in real life does that.

I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

It is surprising how many professional athletes, along with their families and friends, are gaga over movie and music stars, and the reverse is true with entertainers and sports stars.

It's all about surprising people, and you're not surprising people if you're making them laugh every five seconds.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

It may sound surprising, but a joke and a crime novel work in very much the same way. The comedian/writer leads their audience along the garden path. The audience know what's coming, or at least they think they do until they get hit from a direction they were not expecting.

I just like surprising people. I never want to get to a place where people see that I am in a movie and they go see the movie and they expect a certain performance one way or the other. That is just inherently boring to me.

I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.

At the end of the day, the job is to tell the story that you promised to tell and do it in the most entertaining and perhaps surprising way you can think of.

The audience of 'Drag Race' and the fans of drag queens are often very surprising.

Innovation, surprising people and creating a sense of wonder is what consumers want.

Surprisingly, it was not an American but a British company that opened an amusement park in 2007 called Dickens World, located in the English county of Kent, complete with an Ebenezer Scrooge Haunted House, a Great Expectations Boat Ride and the as-advertised 'costumed Dickensian characters.'

Performing is the one time I don't have anxiety - surprisingly, right?

I'm not a drama person, but when you can make a movie in song form in three-and-a-half minutes, it's surreal.

My parents used to bring me to Radio City when I was a little girl, so performing there 50 years later was absolutely surreal - especially with my parents in the audience!

When I look up at the screen and see myself I always have to laugh. Not because I think I'm doing a horrible job, quite the contrary, I just feel it's so surreal to feel like one person can entertain so many at one time.

Film sets are constantly amusing because you really are creating something that is so very surreal, and I kind of like that.

When I'm on stage, it's like a different world ... me connecting with the audience. It's a surreal experience.

If there's one thing that television doesn't really do, and has never really done, is to tell a surreal story.

I've watched 'The Daily Show' forever. So being a part of it is surreal.