Quotes About Entertainment

The difference between comedians and the general public is that we are meant to be funnier. And when you've got politicians giving material so easy that the general public is doing it, what is the necessity of us anymore?

In the past, great communicators were great orators, but great communicators today sound conversational, and interrupting is common in conversation. And public discourse is now more about entertainment than enlightenment.

My family is in business since long. No one has been in the entertainment industry and in the public eye. So, it was a great deal for me to get into.

Bollywood is just like any other industry. It is just that people in this industry are constantly in the public eye.

I don't think any industry was ever as closely scrutinized and written about and constantly in the public eye as television.

There is already huge public interest in stage musicals.

My publicist actually told me about the book. She's half-Indian, half-Dutch, and she was like, 'You've got to do this book. It's called 'Crazy Rich Asians.''

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

Buzz and the right publicist are not only important but crucial in show business.

I was a publicist for other people's movies.

Contrary to popular belief, you don't make money as an actor in the beginning. Your publicist might cost $5000 a month, so you're losing money.

People don't realize how much money you have to spend: styling, publicity, a manager, and your agent. That's a chunk of change.

I had heard that in Bollywood, one gets publicity without even asking for it. There are new rumours every day and the celebrities involved get disturbed.

Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.

The publicity machine for films and television is so much bigger than for theatre.

I started publicly singing when I was eight. Singing was always what I did. I never really acted.

I feel like it's my job to potentially make fun of people publicly, but I do it in a fun manner.

When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.

Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they're salacious and funny and self-reflective.

Much of my publishing life was consumed by the memoirs of movie stars - or by attempts to get them to write a memoir.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.

When I left school, I went and bought my own sound system, and me and my dad would just go along to all the pubs and clubs around the local area and just sort of do our own little cover shows.