Quotes About Entertainment

When you put an album out, you can't do any material from the album if people are paying to see you.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.

I wouldn't inflict my naked body on any paying audience.

I've been doing comedy and paying my bills.

People now have been conditioned to believe they should only buy one song at a time, that nobody can make an entire record that would merit you paying, you know, $7, $8, $10 when CDs in the '90s were $18, $19 and people bought millions and millions and millions of them.

Minibars are very appealing, especially when someone else is paying.

I've got my ideal job. I like to sing, I like to dance, I like to bang drums and dress up, and someone pays me - it's incredible.

I've gotten to play so many of the great courses around the country and overseas. Sometimes it pays to be the golf guy. People always want to take me to the golf course. I love it.

I enjoyed the Hee Haw people, but from 1980 on I didn't enjoy it and thought about leavin', and thought, hell, it's an easy job and pays wonderful. I kinda just prostituted myself for their money.

Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.

When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.

Acting is a great gig. It pays well, I get to meet some nice people, and it allows me to play a lot of golf. I'm a real lucky guy.

There is no denying that TV pays really well.

Often in my game as an actor, someone else pays for your travel and there's nothing like being able to lie flat on a flight home from L.A.

On American TV, there just aren't a lot of female leads in comedy, especially at the peak of all the Judd Apatow stuff.

Rock and Roll does have its limits as far as the aging process. You want to go out there and play while you're at your peak, right? I think that's encouraging us to keep going out on the road - to maximize the playing at the moment.

On 'American Top 40' the Kasem voice soared and swooped, like an expert aural acrobat, through promos, jingles and dedications, usually rising to a dramatic peak for the top-selling song of the week.

Peak TV has resulted in beautiful shows that have nothing in particular to tell us about humanity.

In the theater, you have to speak so people in the last row of the peanut gallery can hear you. With television, the camera does that work for you.

Honestly, I grew up a huge Peanuts fan.

If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like Disneyland, I'll just do mainly hits. That's what they want to hear. I don't want to bore people. If I wanted that much to play nothing but 12 new songs, then I should go do it in a bar somewhere for peanuts.

Pearl Jam sit down and have conversations about Kiss all the time on tour.

The thing about Black Eyed Peas is we're very humorous. All we do is laugh all day.