Quotes About Entertainment

If you come up to me in the street, I am going to be delighted to meet you. I became a television star to entertain people, to spread goodness into the world.

I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

We love television because television brings us a world in which television does not exist.

I'll tell you what I miss most. What I would love to do, more than anything, is just anthologies. With an anthology you can tell any story and be in every division of television. We don't have any anthologies anymore, do we?

Without television, cricket would be a poorer place;the two have to coexist.

Television was essentially my college.

It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.

I hate Gordon Ramsay's programmes: I don't know if he's been told it makes good television.

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Whether it's animated, whether it's live-action, whether it's Broadway, whether it's television, a musical is a musical is a musical. So, pretty much, you approach the songs in pretty much the same way.

In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.

There were some television sets back in the '50s, but they were expensive. People would gather at the rich guy's apartment down the hall to watch Milton Berle on his 10-inch black-and-white screen.

I can't believe I'm actually saying this, but there is a difference between the John Cena character you see on television and me as a human being.

The demand for standup in the eighties was created by how easy it was to exploit 'comedians' and create very cheap television programming.

'Profit' in my mind is as good as television gets, and if that didn't make it, all bets are off on really predicting what's going to work and what's not.

From what I can see people look at television to forget the horrors outside.

I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.

I find that the stuff on television is more exciting than the films, which are for teens almost.

I've seen the invention of television and performed on television even before my family owned one.

Many people dismiss morning television as fluff, but the morning hours are where the money is.

I've been to fights, and I've seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport, that particular sport, no.

To me, the real genius in making television for kids is making something that inadvertently - or perhaps intentionally - becomes something that can be enjoyed by people of all ages.

I like radio and live performing stuff. I don't like the television stuff as much.

Television is simply automated daydreaming.