Quotes About Entertainment

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.

This is what made the difference, they used social networking for entertainment and I used it for business.

The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has.

In Berlin Jews controlled almost one hundred percent of the theaters and cinemas before the rise to power.

Teens today rule the world. The whole culture - movies, music - is pointed at young people. They have so 'much' power.

People don't listen to karaoke, they endure it until it is their turn. It is the singularly most self-indulgent form of entertainment available.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

Sports are what we watch when we just can't look at another spreadsheet. They're what we use when we need to get away from our lives for a little bit. Every human needs the escape, and sports provides this splendidly.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

A comedian can only last till he either takes himself serious or his audience takes him serious.

There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education.

There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Get all the good laughs you can.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation.

Throughout her life, whenever Mom was sad or confuse or disoriented, she could never concentrate on television, she said, but always sought refuge in a book. Books focused her mind, calmed her, took her outside of herself; television jangled her nerves.

reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose -- electronic or printed or audio -- is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation.

It's three hours, and I know I probably won't feel up for it, but if I'm going to feel rotten, I'd rather feel rotten watching something wonderful than just sitting in the living room, looking at the wall.

She never wavered in her conviction that books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose—electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio—is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation.

books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose—electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio—is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation. Mom

Tommy Lee Jones is hilarious. I would say, if you look at the body of his work, the character he is most like is the one in 'The Fugitive.' That's how he talks and jokes. That is the type of energy he has.

I am entirely convinced that the drama renounces its chief privilege and glory when it waives its claim to be a popular art, and is content to address itself to coteries, however "high-browed."