Quotes About Entertainment

Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

There is no society that does not highly value fictional storytelling. Ever.

For some strange reason we don't go to charming, light movies anymore. People expect a movie to be heavy and turgid, like "American Beauty." We've become a heavy-handed society.

I think society has become more and more immune to reality television which is the most frightening thing in the world to me.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

Birds, except when broiled and in the society of a cold bottle, bored him stiff.

If we were a primitive society, movie stars would be gods.

I serve society by rocking!

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.

The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.

James Brown's Live at the Apollo is not just a musical whiplash, it's a spiritual cleansing. You can just close your eyes and see him doing the splits, kicking the mic stand and doing a 360.

You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone.

bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to a singing contest,wouldn't it

On the road we're somebody else's guests - and we play in a way that they're not going to forget we visited them.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

I like comedy as a group sport.