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Quotes About Entertainment

10. "I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
~ Lee Child
I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it." —Lee Child
~ Lee Child
I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
~ Lee Child
Writing is show business for shy people.
~ Lee Child
I always preferred Harpo to Groucho Marx.
~ Lee Evans
The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...try to fake three laughs in an hour -- ha ha ha ha ha -- they'll take you away, man. You can't.
~ Lenny Bruce
Woody Allen has said, If I wanted to have a weekend of pure pleasure, it would be to have a half-dozen Bob Hope films and watch them, films like Monsieur Beaucaire and My Favorite Brunette. It's not for nothing that he's such a greatly accepted comedian. He is a great, great talent. Despite this praise from a celebrated contemporary funnyman, there is a tendency to take Bob Hope's films for granted.
~ Leonard Maltin
Abbott and Costello are surrounded—by Bela Lugosi and Glenn Strange—in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
~ Leonard Maltin
If your sense of humor was shaped by Looney Tunes, you're set for life.
~ Leonard Maltin
preachertainment"?
~ Leonard Sweet
I love to kiss my girl when we watch deep Netflix shows
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Do you think they'll play Katy Perry's 'Firework,' or is that too obvious?
~ Leslie Margolis
They should have a store next to the bookstore called the shit store where you can get shit books to read while on the shitter. No one reads great literature on the shitter.
~ Lewis Black
Suddenly the Professor started as if he had been electrified. Why, I had nearly forgotten the most important part of the entertainment! The Other Professor is to recite a Tale of a Pig I mean a Pig-Tale, he corrected himself. It has Introductory Verses at the beginning, and at the end. It can't have Introductory Verses at the end, can it? said Sylvie. Wait till you hear it, said the Professor: then you will see. I'm not sure it hasn't some in the middle, as well.
~ Lewis Carroll
Nobody Wants to be themselves. That's why there's tv. -Ephigenia
~ Libba Bray
Agent Jones held Sinjin's face in his hands. "I'm going to make balloon animals. People need balloon animals." "How right you are, strange delusional man," Sinjin said.
~ Libba Bray
Can we talk about the miracle that is the Small World ride? It's like an acid trip drag show.
~ Libba Bray
I told him Friday was a different religious occasion: Doctor Who . Hey, it's not my fault they don't have TiVo yet.
~ Libba Bray
Go on, darling," she said, batting her lashes. "Tell them the rest." "Riiiight," Sam said, suppressing a smirk.
~ Libba Bray
There are three things that have meaning for life. They are the motivational factors for everything in your life––for anything that you do or any living thing does: The first is survival, the second is social order, and the third is entertainment. Everything in life progresses in that order.
~ Linus Torvalds
I think video games are going to completely take over storytelling in our society. Video games are not a fad.
~ Guillermo del Toro
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent.
~ Charles Krauthammer
Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
~ J. B. Priestley
Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.
~ Deborah Prothrow-Stith