Quotes About Entertainment

Football is so popular, people know they can sell their story in a newspaper form or a rating on TV, so they use football because what they are more about is the business of, you know, selling newspapers or seeing commercial time on TV.

I've been playing NBA Live since I was little, and I won't lie, I always play with the team with the highest rating.

I mean, you make a movie with Sarah Palin in it, you get great ratings. That's easy. I know how to get ratings: get Sarah Palin.

It was more of their quirky show. It was more like a cult show. The ratings weren't really that high.

We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn't have the podium. The message that's delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we're going to put on because that's what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That's just where the culture's gotten.

There's times where you can watch television and say, 'Look at that cheesy thing they're doing for ratings,' and you're right.

It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings.

There used to be three networks, and now there are 40 million networks. There's a lot more competition out there, too. We would bring in 27 million people. Now, they're lucky if they have 17. I looked at the ratings, for the first time in 25 years, just to see, and there were 130 shows on. There used to be maybe 30.

If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

It's definitely the highest rated pre-school show on Cable. It's difficult to mix markets that way in terms of ratings. It's hard to tell, you know, where channel 12, or Public Television, is.

I think, today, television is asking too many loaded questions, pushing further for ratings.

I truly feel like my job is to make the shows. That's what I'm paid to do. It's somebody else's job to market them, and it's somebody else's job to pay attention to the ratings, because if I paid attention to all that, my head would explode.

One can do a film and not work for six months, but on TV, you have to produce good content every week. It involves a lot of hard work, as one has to fight for ratings every week. But I have always got love from the audiences, be it during 'The Great Laughter Challenge' or 'Comedy Circus.'

Great fights means great TV ratings.

You have to realize WWE's contract. They're not getting paid from advertising money. USA makes that money. WWE gets paid by USA, they get paid a lot of money, and the money increases every year. Ratings aren't the most important thing to them.

I can't create magic, where all my serials will have the highest ratings.

If we have close, great racing like we have, then the ratings will take care of themselves.

Every single television product has the ambition to chase ratings, every one of them. Many have other ambitions, for many, ratings are not #1. But my experience on TV, and on the entertainment side, has been entirely ratings-based. When I look at TV I look at ratings. And I never second guess ratings. Never.

The biggest income we make is from live performances, without any doubt. That's about a 4-to-1 ratio from anything else.

If you compare TV and films, the success ratio of television is higher than films.

People aren't coming to me looking for political essays or polemic - they're looking for a rattling good story.

I started as a rave promoter when I was 17 years old; then I started DJing at 19.

It's a lot more fun for actors to cry and rant and rave, or have a drug problem or a drinking problem.

I remember being really, really young and watching Prince and Michael Jackson concert DVDs. One of my favorites is Prince's 'Rave Un2 The Year 2000.'