Quotes About Entertainment

Titanic I thought was the most dreadful piece of work I've ever seen in my entire life. Another film that I think is equally bad was American Beauty. So badly acted and directed. But people like that.

I can't travel without Sudoku.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

At my house, when a missing pawn shows up in the Scrabble tiles, it counts as an extra blank.

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties."

We labor to make a house a home, then every time we're expecting visitors, we rush to turn it back into a house.

We are each the star of our own situation comedy, and, with luck, the screwball friend in somebody else's.

The perfect family board game is one that can be played each time with fewer pieces.

"Let me not live," said Aretine's Antonia, "if I had not rather hear thy discourse than see a play."

Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.

People go to the movies to watch a film and all they're thinking about is the actress's cellulite they saw in a magazine.

In the late '70s, maybe just before I started, there was still an attitude that if you did film you didn't do TV and vice versa, but that's gone now.

Houdini for instance, could sometimes complete his escape acts in seconds—but he drew them out to minutes, to make the audience sweat.

parents like to see themselves more as equals, with a bit more knowledge and experience, whose role is really to validate their children's feelings and make sure they are continually entertained and occupied. They are more like older friends. This same leveling dynamic applies to teachers and students, where learning must be fun.

Anyone found not enjoying themselves will be shot.

You want stories? Thom Merrilin declaimed. I have stories, and I will give them to you. I will make them come alive before your eyes.

Strangers and a gleeman, fireworks and a peddler. It was going to be the best Bel Tine ever.

The whole day of Bel Tine would be taken up with singing and dancing and feasting, with time out for footraces, and contests in almost everything. Prizes would be given not only in archery, but for the best with the sling, and the quarterstaff. There would be contests at solving riddles and puzzles, at the rope tug, and lifting and tossing weights, prizes for the best singer, the best dancer and the best fiddle player, for the quickest to shear a sheep, even the best at bowls, and at darts.

All he wanted from life was some good wine, a game of dice, and a pretty girl or three.

Mat sacudió con asombro la cabeza. «¿Cuánta gente hay en los tejados esta noche?» Sólo faltaba que se presentara Thom y se pusiera a tocar el arpa, o alguien preguntando las señas de una posada.

Finally the gleeman seemed to tire of hearing him say "I will do what I must," and stopped coming. It seemed that he did not want to compose his epic unless it could be full of pained emotion. The man looked frustrated when he stalked off for the last time, cloak fluttering furiously behind him.

Don't you know clowns can get away with murder?" John Wayne Gacy

mirthful note was added many hours later. In my remarks at the swearing-in, I had said that my ninety-three-year-old mother was present for the ceremony. Comedian Conan O'Brien picked up on that on his show that night. He joked that my mother had come up to me after the ceremony, offered her congratulations, and then told me, "Now, go kick the Kaiser's ass.

Roughly half a million people died in the Roman Colosseum to supply audiences of tens of thousands the pleasure of watching captives raped, dismembered, tortured, eaten by animals.