Quotes About Entertainment

There will always be economic pressure to make hits, identify hits, and then exploit hits. And you're going to exploit them with as many episodes as you probably can.

When I started in the business, you did television, and then when you got lucky, you got a prestige project of a film.

I love great prestige television, but because I make television, sometimes I don't want to, like, you know, fall into a very heavy cerebral drama.

Television wasn't prestigious.

'Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.

I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books - and now we have a book out. And all the time, books are prestigious. But there's sort of nothing like having the big hot show on television.

My mom bought me a guitar when I was 12 and I used to pretend that I was a rock star in my own room. I was also obsessed with Elvis as a kid.

I don't think movies or television have any basis in reality at all. It's all just pretend. That's what's fun about it.

I'd perform in the mirror; I'd pretend to do interviews. I'd practice my autograph for hours.

I don't understand 'The Only Way Is Essex' and 'Made in Chelsea': the way they pretend there's no camera. I cannot fathom the attraction.

That's what Letterman did. He mocked everything and everyone in show business, even though he was at the top of show business. He was in it but not really of it, and that's one thing I came to love about him. I mean, you can't sit there and interview Cher and pretend you're not in show business, but he managed to pull it off somehow.

Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.

As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So.'

I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her.

The joy of the roasts is to watch people get hurt and offended, and then have to laugh to pretend they're a good sport.

Growing up, I idolised Madhuri Dixit. She's my favourite actress, and I used to pretend I was her all the time.

When I was a kid, I used to look in the mirror and pretend I was Elvis.

I come home from trying to pretend to know about astronomy and physics all day and turn on 'The Real Housewives'.

Most of the cast and crew on 'Mama's Family' have been together since the 'Carol Burnett' days, so we work really well together. It's like I'm being paid to pretend I'm in show business.

I will never pretend like I did not come from Bachelor Nation.

Janaan' is very much a romantic comedy. It's light, fluffy and doesn't pretend to be anything serious.

I knew when I grew up, I always wanted to be a liar, and if you're in television, you're lying because you're just pretending to be yourself much like I'm doing now.

I enjoy fighting scenes. I like fighting in film. I like pretending to fight in films.

I feel like I'm absolutely insane, and I don't think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people... and having that as a job is crazy.