Quotes About Entertainment

I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.

Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match.

Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

Every week, as an 11-year-old kid, I would tune in to what was really the first American Idol-type program, a radio show called 'Major Bowes' Amateur Hour.' The winning group on the evening of September 8, 1935, was called the Hoboken Four, and their spokesman was Frank Sinatra, then aged 19.

If you keep winning, people will stay glued to our cricket.

My winning is getting to perform. That's my victory.

They baffle me where they go with the storylines... we used to be a Golden Globe winning show.

I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing them.

It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

I got to play with ZZ Top and introduce Bryan Adams and George Michael. And to have it all topped off by me winning 'American Idol?!' It's pretty absurd.

Winning 'American Idol' is awesome.

How do we merge entertainment and education? We live in a world where entertainment wins, but if entertainment can have an educational heart, then we can really change people's lives.

I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.

That's the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you're signing away seven years of your life.

I love watching Crufts on the television, especially the agility tests; I find them very impressive.

If you look at Mohali, Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata, they host T20 games, IPL all in a year. That's the reason the crowd stays away from the Tests matches.

People always say, 'Why don't you play more sets in Texas?' and I say, 'Dude, why don't you come babysit?'

I love watching live music. It's one of the reasons I love living in Austin, Texas, because there is so much live music.

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician.

I've never seen 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', I've never seen 'Halloween', I've never seen any of the 'Friday the 13ths.'

I grew up half the time in a small town called Mart, Texas, and half the time in L.A., because I was acting.