Quotes About Entertainment

reading was how I got my ya-yas out.

For entertainment there were only Mao Thought Propaganda Teams, who sang Mao's quotations set to raucous music.

That's why I love entertainment, in all forms: it's connection disguised as escapism.

it's probably a good thing to go to the movies occasionally. The whole audience puts on the actor's face. No one needs his own. A movie's a place where you pay your money to exchange faces for a while.

A movie's a place where you pay your money to exchange faces for a while [page 88].

by a new burlesque trick: fish swivels affixed to her pasties. The mechanism allowed Finnell to pinwheel her tassels in any direction, from any position, at any speed

An attack on SeaWorld might mean a bomb, or it might mean graffiti and glitter and a cream pie in the face. The government doesn't always seem to distinguish between the two.

If I can't play music that people appreciate, then I want to play music that people love.

I don't mind watching comedians telling jokes on the telly, as you don't have to react, but if someone tells me a joke to my face I feel under pressure to find it amusing.

There's non-stop movie work for dwarves these days if they want it. I think it's because a lot of people are watching movies on iPads – they fit on the screen better.

Do you think horses like to race?

Man, you can come see me six or seven times in a row and you'll never see the same show twice, because I don't like to be robotic onstage. I like to perform for that particular audience.

A man must pay the fiddler. In my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidized.

Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when.

My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.

I did a movie 'I Love You, Man' and it got great reviews; it was very enjoyable.

I'm 37 and I was told recently I was too old to play the lover of a man who was 55. It was astonishing to me. It made me feel bad, and then it made me feel angry, and then it made me laugh.

I'd like to introduce a man with a lot of charm, talent, and wit. Unfortunately, he couldn't be here tonight, so instead . . .

I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I'm very lucky man.

Chaplin is no business man - all he knows is that he can't take anything less.

This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.

Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.