Quotes About Entertainment

A great center for gladiatorial combats, it boasted a fine amphitheater

Well, everyone likes movies when they're a little kid.

You look at me as if I were a conjuror,' Holmes remarked, with a laugh.

Inspector Morse, Taggart, Lewis, Foyle's War, Endeavour, A Touch of Frost, Luther, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Cracker, Broadchurch and even bloody Maigret and Wallander – British TV would disappear into a dot on the screen without murder.

wonderful and reassuring about the idea that in the rush of modern life people will still come together and sit for an hour in a theatre, a gymnasium or a giant tent simply out of a love of books and reading. There's a sort of innocence about

All that was missing was the hookah and the belly dancers. Charles le Mesurier was sitting in

in America that the average child sees eight thousand murders before they leave elementary school.

British TV would disappear into a dot on the screen without murder.

The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

Some people feel that the purpose of cinema is entertainment - which in itself is a healthy enough goal, provided you define what constitutes entertainment. But I come from a family where I grew up believing that cinema - art - should be used as an instrument for change and that's the kind of cinema I've largely done and been attracted to.

I think Chicago has provided, for quite a long time, a very high level of stand-up comics that make their way out to New York and L.A.

Murdoch Mysteries' has provided me with an opportunity to expand my craft and have learned so much about myself, about directing, acting and contributing the entertainment industry in ways that I wouldn't have imagined before.

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

There's no money in television, but TV provides the wherewithal to get the dollars for live performances.

Comedy provides an escape from the horrors of real life.

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

That's what DSi is all about: Providing simple, quick-to-master experiences that everybody can pick up and enjoy.

If you're doing 70 gigs in a tour, there's a lot of responsibility. People need a big night out, and you're providing it.

I feel the main advantage of being a singer is that you are providing happiness to others.

I've seen shows on Showtime, and they're very provocative, if you will, but nothing to the point that's over-the-top or gratuitous.

Comedies always need to be provocative and catch your attention in a way that dramas don't have to.

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

I use humour a lot because humour is a great equaliser. Everyone laughs at the same things if you set them up properly, and that makes everybody equal. At the end of the day, I see my job as being there to entertain as well as inform and provoke.

You've got to honor your relationship with your audience - that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn't mean you can't provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.