Quotes About Entertainment

I'm not a competitive player at all, but I don't want competitive games to go away, because for some people that's why they play games, to compete.

Movies always had a captive audience, so they were able to do deeper, more complex things. Television was always about, 'Look at me now! Look at me now! Now go away!' That's starting to change.

I don't want to be part of movies where I just sing and dance and go away.

When you hear Bollywood, you think about everything mainstream, song-and-dance, hero-heroine. I don't think that will ever go away.

Every time I do anything with TV, I always go away going, 'That was so fun.'

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

Something that's good in the mini-culture of 'Happy Endings' is that the goal is to try and make each other laugh. There is a pretty high bar, and you want to make the writers laugh, and you want to elevate what's already great material - and also, we're like, 'Who is even watching this? Let's just go for it.'

My agents and my managers are very good at whittling things down to the things they think I would be good at and that I'd respond well to, and that includes theater, TV and film. Whatever it is, if the material is right for me, then I'll go for it.

Most of what gets made now, you laugh your way through, go home and forget you've seen it.

I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician. So I do stuff like that. I used to be a landscape gardener. I loved that job. But I'd like to be involved with entertainment. Singing or something, I guess.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Breakaway goals are fun.

The Coogan Law had to come and it just happens that I was the goat for it.

God bless Mr. T, he's a good brudda, but he didn't know anything about wrestling.

I get it that lots of people want to get on TV. If you can get cast, God bless you. Just please don't do it by bashing my family.

I believe the favor of God on my life is not for me to keep to myself and become proud of, but to be used for others... I believe God has a plan for me in the entertainment world.

I'd say that comedy is my God-given gift.

I love 'The Godfather' and 'Casablanca' - great stories, acted well, made well.

I like 'Citizen Kane,' I like 'The Godfather,' all the ones that everyone should see, whether you're an actor or not.

My inspiration is the one and only godfather of comedy himself, Richard Pryor. He's the greatest.

We're basically TV gods.

The Dave Clark Five was basically a live band. During '63 we got the Gold Cup for being the best live band in Britain.

Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.

One day I was asked to pick up $50,000 worth of gold chains for Mr. T. For real!