Quotes About Entertainment

I had fun coming every day and playing in front of a packed house - it was exciting.

Every time you're on stage, you look out at a packed house, people all the way up to the top, people having a blast, everybody forgetting about the world for a couple hours. That's a special thing.

When the Sacramento Kings, when I was there, we win 29-30 games - that was a successful season. And it would be packed from start to finish. You couldn't get a seat.

There is so much bloodshed and action packed into our films these days. Pretty women provide the much-needed respite to the masses from the melee of non-stop action.

I fought Chris Eubank for the second time because it was the fight the public wanted to see, and there were 47,000 who turned up at Old Trafford. We packed them in because people knew we gave 100 per cent.

I love hiking, paddle boarding and listening to the Veronicas.

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

I generally don't walk out of films. If I start a book, and I don't love it by page 100, I will stop reading because it's just too much of a time commitment. But you never know with a movie what's going to turn around.

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

My father would read me Page Six instead of, like, kids' stories.

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets.

We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.

Most shows are normally 40 or 50 pages.

Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.

I don't enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people's amusement. I enjoy it if I'm being paid a lot for it.

I should be paid to go out. You see, I'm good for business. I class up a joint.

I get paid to make out with the hunks!

ABC would love to do groundbreaking shows and there are moments for that, but they're also trying to entertain millions and millions of people and paid advertisers and keep my family happy.

I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.

I am paid a good amount of money to not blink for 12 hours. It's fun, but I don't take it very seriously.

I was paid to be cheeky and people clapped me for it.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

What I feel I am doing now is giving to the people exactly what they paid for but never actually heard before.