Quotes About Entertainment

Aldous Huxley absolutely detested mass culture and popular entertainment, and many of his toughest critical essays, as well as several intense passages in his fiction, consist of sneers and jeers at the cheapness of the cinematic ethic and the vulgarity of commercial music.

La dictature parfaite aurait les apparences de la démocratie; une prison sans murs dont les prisonniers ne songeraient pas à s'évader. Un système d'esclavage où, grâce à la consommation et au divertissement, les esclaves auraient l'amour de leur servitude.

Imaginen la locura que representa permitir que la gente se entregue a juegos complicados que en nada aumentan el consumo. Pura locura. Actualmente los Interventores no aprueban ningún nuevo juego, a menos que pueda demostrarse que exige cuando menos tantos aparatos como el más complicado de los juegos ya existentes. -Se interrumpió espontáneamente-. He aquí un grupito encantador -dijo, señalando

One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.

Todo pájaro que aprenda a organizarse una buena vida sin necesidad de usar sus alas pronto renunciará al privilegio del vuelo y permanecerá por siempre en tierra. Algo parecido pasa con los seres humanos. Si se les procura con regularidad y abundancia el pan tres veces al día, muchos de ellos se contentarán con vivir de pan únicamente o, al menos, de pan y circo únicamente.

Strange, mused the Director, as they turned away. Strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting. Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption. It's madness. Nowadays, the Controllers won't approve of any new game unless it can be shown that it requires at least as much apparatus as the most complicating of existing games.

The Victrola, the Movies, a lecture: such are the three American alternatives to Silence, Scandal and Squabble. Or else, get drunk. America knows no other devices to enable its inhabitants to endure either their own company or that of their fellow-creatures.

It is not her fault that among other people love has taken on such shallow form and has been reduced to some basic convenience, to a mere entertainment.

A TV show is its characters. When you describe a TV show, you're describing the characters and the situation they're in.

Admittedly, his dinners consisted only of two or three courses, and were prepared by an ex-soldier, but the champagne flowed like water.

I love the free entertainment that patients provide. People say and do the most ridiculous things, and I've got a front row seat to the absurdity." —A Colorado travel nurse

the very judicious plan of dividing the two acts of the opera with a ballet

And if it can't be fun, what's the point?

Today, watching television often means fighting, violence and foul language - and that's just deciding who gets to hold the remote control.

Meaning?" Shane asked. "That I think it would be fun to put Brooke and Drake in a box and shake them up together to see what kind of noise they make," Michael suggested, giving in to his laughter.

'Donny and Marie' was a great experience. I tried so hard to be a great talk show host but it's all about relaxing and enjoying it. Marie and I finally figured that out. I would have liked it to continue but I'm kind of glad it's over because of the phenomenal workload.

The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but not always, a far richer experience than a book turned into a movie.

If television's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who won't shut up.

Death in particular seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of innocent amusement than any other single subject.

We had cocktail parties and I'd stay up until 5 in the morning.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

MTV is the lava lamp of the 1980's.