Quotes About Entertainment

In thinking about 'depressing movies,' many people don't realize that all bad movies are depressing, and no good movies are.

The wonderful thing about having your songs on the radio is that people are going to go out to your concerts and buy your merchandise and that sort of thing, and it feels good to get that level of name recognition.

I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.

Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.

Nobody makes movies bad on purpose.

Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater

These pages capture a turning point in the entertainment industry, as told through the personal lens of one family.

You cannot blame porn. When I was young, I used to masturbate to Gilligan's Island.

If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to.

I'm writing a new book called 'Ventroliquism for Dummies'.

To be an actress," she said; "to ruin one's life before a room full of people ... What fun!

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

In a packed program tonight, we will be talking to an out-of-work contortionist who says he can no longer make ends meet.

I respect the game that goes on of putting this against that, but I don't respect, nor do I enjoy, an awful lot of the actual programs that go on the air.

En vrai, un continent sans guerre s'ennuie...sitôt les clairons, c'est la fête !

On décore à présent aussi bien les chiottes que les abattoirs et le Mont-de-Piété aussi, tout cela pour vous amuser, vous distraire, vous faire sortir de votre Destinée.

We are so trivial by nature that only amusements can stop us from dying for real.

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them.

I'm happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways.

The purpose of art is to console and amuse—myself, and, I hope, others.

People nowadays think that scientists exist to instruct them, poets, musicians, etc. to give them pleasure. The idea that these have something to teach them - that does not occur to them.

Ti compiango! Ma tu devi far la tua parte, com'io la mia. Il giuoco è questo. L'ha capito finanche lei! Ciascuno la sua, fino all'ultimo; e stai pur sicuro che dal mio perno io non mi muovo, avvenga che può. Mi vedo e vi vedo giocare, e mi diverto. Basta.

People want to be titillated or frightened. They don't want to think.