Quotes About Entertainment

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity, but from their point of view, show business was no way to make a living.

Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music.

Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.

My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.

Little Boy Blue... he needed the money!

Take opera for example - to go to the opera you have to dress up in a tuxedo and pay lots of money.

A race track is a place where windows clean people.

Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film.

Las Vegas is the only place I know where money really talks--it says, Goodbye.

I feel responsible for Johnny Ray's success. See many years ago I asked him to be on my show and he asked for a lot of money and I cried. And he stole that from me.

I am particular about the seating of the audience - also about how much money they pay - but most of all where they are seated. If I am going to sing something intimate, who am I going to sing it to?

I used to hang out at karaoke bars all the time. It was the most fun you could have when you had no money.

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

There are only seven movie stars in the world whose name alone will induce American bankers to lend money for movie productions, and the only woman on the list is Ingrid Bergman.

The motivation to me is to make money and not be dependent upon the shallow pool called the entertainment world or the rap world or the hip-hop world.

"If I had been on 'Bowling for Dollars,' I'd wind up owing them money."

If the expenditure of money for entertainment in America is any indication of taste, clearly the majority of us are addicted to trash.

I'm constantly embarrassed at the level of attention actors get and the level of money that we get. It's completely disproportionate.

Some guys said 'Here's bop!' Wham! They said, 'Here's something we can make money on!' Wham! 'Here's a comedian!' Wham! Here's a guy who talks funny talk!'

Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.

I have always made impresarios a lot of money across my career and have never, so far as I am aware, given any of them heart attacks.

And the back of his anorak was leaping up and down, and people were chucking money to him. I said 'Do you earn a living doing that?' He said 'Yes, this my livelihood.'

The purpose of rock n' roll is to convince girls to pay money to get close to you.

Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?