Quotes About Entertainment

Such crazy things happen on daytime TV; if you were to take a specific scene out of context, it can sound so far-fetched that you start laughing at the material... and that can take you out of watching the performance.

I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids.

I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.

I'm a very deep thinker, and I find it very hard to switch off at night, so I usually have to put on an episode of 'Friends' or listen to some music before bed.

I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.

If the powers that be really knew how much time I spent thinking about and researching celebrities, they probably wouldn't let me anywhere near the red carpet. But, please promise not to tell them. I'm harmless, I swear.

When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.

Thinking back on it, I've been in this business since I was 3, and I grew up in musical theater, so I was raised and surrounded by gay men and gay women. I was hardly around anyone straight.

Me, I never consider myself a bad guy. I consider myself a good guy. Now, the audience thinks differently. They love to boo me.

Matt LeBlanc thinks his own jokes are funny which is problematic when you're driving along - he expects you to laugh and often they're not funny.

I think everybody involved in a movie thinks about the box office. It's the 'biz' part of showbiz.

Andy Dick is so gay, he thinks Margaret Cho is funny.

Nobody who is a Penn & Teller fan thinks of us first and foremost as magicians, but as a comedy team.

There's never been a time in history, no matter what the public thinks, when actors have been paid more than they should be.

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.

Jon Stewart hires people that he thinks are funny. That's it. That's the only requirement.

When you speak of silent movies, everyone thinks of Charlie Chaplin first.

Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.

There are three things that I'm addicted to when it comes to entertainment. In no particular order, One, I'm addicted to the cheer moment. 'Librarians' has plenty of them. Next, I feel that life is hard, and I want my entertainment fun, and 'Librarians' is fun as a Christmas party. And third, I like to be moved.

The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.

I have friends of mine that are actors or singers, and they're the classic guys where, they're onstage, and they're like, 'Okay, the blonde in the third row, seat 24, bring her to my dressing room.' I've never, never taken advantage of that, I swear to God.

Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

If you're doing an hour-long show, you're working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It's the cushiest job in Hollywood.