Quotes About Entertainment

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

Enjoy yourself whilst you read!

A dinner party is the oldest experiment. Trap a bunch of souls in a room. Faces move like painted moons, rising and setting, as talk blows in from the east. The thunk and freckles of a hand slammed down on the table in laughter, the noise of a long night unscrolled like a map. Madeira and Roquefort. Paper towels for napkins. The maroon wall telephone rings: next round of folks on their way!

I only sing in the shower. I would join a choir, but I don't think my bathtub can hold that many people.

I have two friends, Steve and Martin. But I'd happily replace both for the friendship of Steve Martin.

More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I'd like to take a moment and say thanks mom, dad, and kidnap victim I keep chained in the basement

Can you appreciate music without playing it? Yes, you can. You can appreciate baseball without playing it. Many people attend a football game merely for the crowd, the excitement, the color.

I'm very particular about the kind of music that I record and sing, and it would be the same way about the kind of movies that I would do.

If you can go out with your live show and turn people on to that, where you have that fan base that's religious and they're going to come see you when you're in that town, once your radio success is gone and you're not a mainstream guy anymore you can still go out and play your shows.

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default.

Celebrities say they date other celebrities because they have the same job. But I think they just like dating famous people. Celebrities attract each other, like cattle.

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.

I could have been a doctor, but there were too many good shows on TV.

So long as there's a jingle in your head, television isn't free.

It was cool to do someone else's movie. It was a lot of fun.

I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.

at the Virgin megastore.

Jet was very busy. I've been inspired by a lot of his movies.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

Hombres que se aburren consigo mismos y sólo se ocupan de su relación con otro, o con otra. A esos hombres les conviene que les den la lata, la lata los ayuda a pasar de un día a otro, los entretiene, los justifica, igual que a las mujeres a las que se la dan.

Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average 'painter' 'sculptor' 'poet' 'composer' 'playwright' is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown's mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.

Goddamn everything but the circus