Quotes About Entertainment

Comedians are people who embarrass themselves in style.

Film brings people together.

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature.

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius.

I'm always amazed that people will actually choose to sit in front of the television and just be savaged by stuff that belittles their intelligence.

In a late-night monologue, it's not just about being funny; you have to come off as knowledgeable. You have to cultivate a persona of trust and intelligence and likeability.

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.

When you go to the mind reader, do you get half price?

TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.

As a filmmaker you have to keep asking yourself the question are we really going to impress them [audience] either by the wow factor, the intelligence factor, the I didn't see that coming factor?

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

The lowest boor may laugh on being tickled, but a man must have intelligence to be amused by wit.

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.

I'm glad I'm funny. I'm glad I make people happy, because that's very important. But I'm proud to be known as a kind person.

Hay muchos hombres que piensan que las mujeres necesitan sentirse queridas y halagadas, incluso mimadas, y lo que más nos importa es que nos entretengan, es decir, que nos impidan pensar demasiado en nosotras mismas. Es una de las razones por los que solemos querer hijos.

Is he paying attention? A distracted audience is much harder to persuade. When you argue with your cat, you must entertain him.

It's a traveling syphilitic sideshow: I don't like the circus. Diseased animals and hermaphrodite clowns throwing anthrax spores at the children. This is like entertainment from the ninth century. Greeks, trolls, mutants, all these inbred circus people. They come out from under bridges, releasing disease and pestilence into the air. I don't like the circus.

I recorded my hair this morning, tonight I'm watching the highlights.

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

I was a big fan of 'The Smurfs' growing up, even though by default - my mom used to force me to watch because she was a 'Smurfs' fan.

The only thing worse than being bored is being boring.

All books are escapism. They are life with the boring bits cut out.