Quotes About Entertainment

If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?

I'd never done anything that required a five-year commitment. To build a show that seems to have kept the imagination of the world so much was a bit otherworldly.

Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.

For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations.

Radio was theater of the mind.

Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

It is both possible (and even necessary) to simultaneously enjoy media while also being critical of its more problematic or pernicious aspects.

Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television.

The best audience is one that is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.

Television – a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done.

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor.

I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

Shakespeare's plays are more violent than 'Scarface.'

I learned quickly that when I made others laugh, they liked me.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.

Trying to negotiate getting a couple of kids to watch the same TV show requires serious diplomacy.

I like to dance, but it's not my weekend activity. I'm not a clubber.