Quotes About Entertainment

I arm myself with punch lines and a big old water gun.

When you have a great audience, you can just keep going and finding new things.

The only weapon we have is comedy.

I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Because it's much more pleasant to be obsessed over how the hero gets out of his predicament than it is over how I get out of mine.

Life is a circus: you go in, bow, run around, bow again and leave.

...but sometimes mindless entertainment was a release of its own. Most important, mindless entertainment didn't come with complications.

Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.

Politics has become entertainment.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

I don't get into politics. I know [Donald] Trump, but I don't follow that. That's just an aside for him when he has nothing else to say. He never involved me in any of that stuff.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.