Quotes About Entertainment

Twenty20 is must for cricket. Without T20, cricket cannot survive.

It is easy to get carried away in this Twenty20 era and think Test cricket has to be entertaining all the time.

We want cricket to grow for kids, and for families to come and watch.

I just want that someone in their 50s or 60s, when they talk about Brian Lara, they say 'I enjoyed watching that guy playing cricket.'

All those Bob Hope specials made me cringe when I was a kid.

'Bridget Jones' is meant to be a funny night out, but with emotional truth. I wanted to make it a classic that you can pick up in 10 years and not cringe over.

I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.

In entertainment, we have a comfort level with crisis.

You don't need a critic to tell you people aren't laughing.

No film critic's going to say it, but 'Madagascar 3' is better than 'The Artist.'

I was always very against the idea that for comedy to be 'important' it has to be dark. It's very much a critic's way of thinking.

I'm not a critic, I'm not there to tell people what they should think about something - I just want to kind of enthuse about stuff to let people make their own mind up about it.

If I have one criticism of the other late-night shows, it's that they're almost entirely scripted.

I know how everybody criticizes everybody else in this business.

We don't make movies for critics, since they don't pay to see them anyhow.

When critics talk about Three, they talk about 'Don't Tell the Bride' and 'Snog Marry Avoid?,' but we're also making important documentaries. We take hard-hitting issues and make them accessible.

The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?

I'm not making films for critics, I'm making films for people to go out and enjoy.

When I first began to work in pictures I tried to attract the attention of film critics, but I don't make movies to please them or myself anymore. I look for material that will entertain.

It's difficult sometimes to go and see a show and enjoy it and not go and see a show and critique it.

I have been offered other roles on television but I don't think I'll be able to enact those crooked characters.

I think, a lot of times when you do a comedy show, people will turn out for a name they know. So, they get excited when they see Patton Oswalt is going to be on the show, but they kind of cross their arms until Patton Oswalt shows up.

I spent seven years in clubs in England, Australia, etc. Not all comedians cross over to sell out in a theatre.

I grew up going to rock shows, and the lines of rock n' roll cross over with wrestling so much.