Quotes About Entertainment

Families At War' is a show we are very proud of. It was a great show.

I'm just really proud of 'Dead Head Fred.'

I'm a proud Gujarati and it makes me very happy that Gujarati movies are coming up with great content.

My proudest achievement has been the success of the shows and artists I have been involved with, because they were made in Britain.

As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You walk into a new audience where nobody knows you, they go: 'Make us laugh. Show us what you're made of. Prove why we should be listening to you.'

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

Hollywood is in love with any kind of nostalgia that can prove itself to be commercial.

Could you imagine me and the roasters taking on the GOP field? It would be the greatest show ever. Prove that you can take a joke. Prove that you're a man or woman of the people. Prove that you're not above criticism even in the form of a backhanded compliment.

That's not part of me that I have to do something dark to prove to people that I'm an actor. The fuel for me is the laugh. Maybe later I'll want to show people the darker side... But right now, I'm having too much fan making people laugh. And it really makes me feel good.

When you start out, it sometimes feels like you're fighting audiences every night just to prove that you're funny.

The Golden Girls certainly proved that there was a large audience for a show about older women.

It is possible to have good manners and be funny at the same time. Ronnie Barker and I proved that.

From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.

It proved to me, though, that comedy is so much harder.

'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.

My mother sang very well. She proved this in her film 'High Society.'

Funny is funny. If it's funny enough to women, it will be funny to men. I think that's been proven by Broad City and Amy Schumer. They're killing it.

Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but even such inventions as Amazon's Kindle and Apple's iPod have rocked their respective industries by changing how we entertain ourselves.

On 'Scandal,' they've proven that they're not scared of shocking the audience.

It's very difficult to know exactly what a major audience is going to respond to. 'We know they respond to certain personalities. That has been proven by the success of certain people in television who have gone from show to show and carried an audience with them. Apart from that, it's very hard to say what formula works.

If the front-page news is a comedian doing a joke that people think is naughty, that proves there's no real news that day, does it not?

I'm an actor. That proves how lazy I am. It's foolish to take on any other jobs.

I am to provide the public with beneficial shocks.

I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.