Quotes About Entertainment

I've had great success being a total idiot.

There's no such thing as fun for the whole family.

There is no such thing as an attention span. People have infinite attention if you are entertaining them.

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business I have to humiliate myself.

If I want a long boring story with no point to it, I have my life.

Rec Room! Wow!" My eyes would have glazed over if they hadn't started out that way, pre-glazed. "I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

He watched a lot of TV. I guess many people did. Maybe like him, they preferred their lives delivered to them in a box.

My Favorite Husband,

But Lon was not only entertainment; he mixed entertainment with information like a modern novelist who not only gives you a lot of love-making, but also leaves you, when the lovers part, with a lot of information about running a hotel, avoiding sharks, or living in a kibbutz.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird.

There are three things you can never have enough of in life, Lieutenant: chocolate, friends and the theatre.

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.

I want to do the romantic comedies. You know, the stuff that Meg Ryan and Julia Roberts or Reese Witherspoon would choose, of course.

Now, anybody who's seen me sing or even tell a joke knows I have the facial expressions of Jim Carrey.

We don't really have a movie industry; we have a trailer industry. The movie guys make five minutes worth of stuff to get people in the theatre, and eighty-five minutes of filler.

The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

The truth is, the more one knows about Art, the more one values Entertainment.

Man's happiness today consists of 'having fun'. Having fun lies In the satisfaction of consuming and 'taking in' commodities, sights, food, drinks. cigarettes, people, lectures, books, movies — all are consumed, swallowed.

Die Leute vom Theater reden immer vom Theater.

The orchestra sounds a flourish. A chap with a chrysanthemum in his buttonhole comes to the front and explains that a couple will now give a demonstration of the latest thing from Berlin—a fox trot! That is unknown here as yet; we have only heard tell of it.

Kropp invece è un pensatore. Le dichiarazioni di guerra, egli propone, dovrebbero essere una specie di festa popolare, con biglietti d'ingresso e banda, come per i combattimenti dei tori. Poi, nell'arena, i ministri e i generali dei due stati avversari, in calzoncini da bagno e armati di manganello, si azzuffano. Vince il paese di quello che caccia l'altro sotto. Sarebbe assai più semplice e meglio di adesso, che s'ammazzano tra loro persone che non c'entrano. La proposta piace.