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Quotes About Entertainment

So that what you tend to see is someone like a Rush Limbaugh, he's the classic case because he's the most successful, he didn't sort of like come out of his mother's womb with the highest ratings in the country.
~ Robert McChesney
Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.
~ P. T. Barnum
I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved.
~ Ann Cleeves
In the global push to stop gender-based violence, men in the entertainment industry need to join forces with women to end violence by men against women and children.
~ John Kani
When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'
~ Lindsay Lohan
I'm a take-no-prisoners type of comic, and I'm lucky because my fans get me and never have a problem with the politically incorrect themes of my act. But I am continually amazed by how a certain section of our society seems to be so freakin' sensitive about jokes.
~ Lisa Lampanelli
I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.
~ Harvey Weinstein
I love nothing better than a dirty cartoon. I think that it's really, really funny to see adult themes in a genre that's usually directed towards children.
~ John DiMaggio
I have a baby that is 21 months old, and I watch Disney Junior with him. A lot of those shows are about pirates. Even the T-shirts and pajamas I buy for him have pirate themes like, 'Aye-aye, argh and mate.' But, I definitely grew up watching pirates.
~ Yasmine Al Masri
The thing that I love about working at 'GMA' the most is the storytelling - there are so many different genres on that show and themes you can cover, so it's been a lot of fun.
~ Jesse Palmer
Jazz is the last refuge of the untalented. Jazz musicians enjoy themselves more than anyone listening to them does.
~ Tony Wilson
There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.
~ Charles Comiskey
You do a clean show and it's over and the audience have enjoyed themselves and you've enjoyed yourself, and you haven't had to resort to shock.
~ Bob Newhart
One of my personal theories of 'The Mayor' is that I feel like the show arrived on the scene at a time when people were feeling a little bit fatigued about anything that had to do with politics.
~ Channing Dungey
I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D.
~ J. J. Abrams
Chuck Lorre and I had been talking about doing one of his shows for a while. I said I'd like to do 'The Big Bang Theory,' because I think it's the best written, most intelligent show on television.
~ Bob Newhart
I don't know if I'm embarrassed because I think it's a funny show, but I could imagine there being a snootiness about it, but I do find 'The Big Bang Theory' very funny. I think that's a good show. I think it's fun, I like the actors; I think they're all doing a great job.
~ Stephen Merchant
Going into 2010, we didn't expect the consumer pullback that happened. We all thought that the theory that concerts are recession-proof was true.
~ Michael Rapino
My theory is, I don't know how long it's going to be, five or ten years, there will be only two ways to see a movie, and that will either be on your computer through your TV screen or in the cinema, end of story. There will be no DVD; that's it - simple.
~ Eric Fellner
To figure out what people think, look at the stories that they tell. We might never get away from the image of Sheldon from 'The Big Bang Theory' breaking down in the middle of the store, not knowing which console to buy, but we can see in TV and movies how regular characters are more and more starting to play games.
~ Rob Manuel
I am a complete sucker for funny films. There is something so therapeutic about laughing until you cry.
~ Ashley Roberts
I thought of Second City as just the greatest therapeutic job anybody could ever dream of having.
~ Bonnie Hunt
I would love to do the therapist on 'Two and a Half Men' again or just work with Charlie Sheen.
~ Jane Lynch
I don't need therapy. I'm not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.
~ Kevin Hart