Quotes About Entertainment

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.

You've got different governments and manufacturers saying, 'Oh, we'll be electric and autonomous by 2030 or whatever.' In my view Formula One is at a crossroads. What is its purpose? We have Formula E, and a lot of manufacturers are morphing into that area. But the emotion, the entertainment, the excitement of those cars just isn't there.

Give me a strapless gown and a rhinestone-studded guitar and some 55-year-olds in my audience, along with their kids and grandkids. Don't give me 'boogie'!

I want to make a movie that can grab people by the heartstrings.

TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.

Television is on a small screen, inside someone's living room, so you have to grab their attention while they are having dinner or cooking or doing something else.

From my years on 'Will & Grace,' you'd think I'm Madonna.

I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.

The thing that I love about 'Will & Grace' is that there's a clear-cut reason for my character to be there. I come in with the zinger. My character seldom has much to do with moving the story ahead. I know exactly what my job is there. It's just a party, basically. I'm just having a ball.

It's always comedy first on 'Will and Grace.' There was never any other agenda.

We didn't, with 'Will & Grace,' set out to change the gay world. We just set out to be funny.

We had a gay marriage on 'Will & Grace' in 2000, 2001. And I was like, 'Gay marriage?' I mean, it was just really early.

Speaking theoretically, in a completely made-up world where 'Will & Grace' is coming back to NBC for 10 episodes - just in that made-up world - it couldn't be a better time. I think more so now than even when we started! And who would have ever - I mean, it's heinous that it's because Donald Trump is the president-elect.

I was a class clown since second grade.

Ever since my grade school days, as I mastered the art of 'faking sick' and I stumbled across 'The View,' I've been confusedly asking myself the same question... How do these dumb broads remain gainfully employed?

I just really want to make a good show and make it as interesting as I can, and anything else is kind of above my pay grade.

By 11th grade, I was in show business as a professional.

I've been playing live since I was in sixth grade.

I entered the film industry as a background dancer and then gradually rose step by step. Now I am a judge and a filmmaker, but amongst everything, my personal favourite continues to be dancing, as it is what has led me to the rest.

After I graduated, I tried Broadway, which was difficult for me. It was tough to get a part on Broadway, so I just started talking to audiences at different social gatherings, and little by little I became Don Rickles - whatever that is.

I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.

I started with a television serial, 'Just Mohabbat,' when I was in the first year of my graduation.

I'll watch the Grammys and think, 'You hardly even see people playing guitar,' and it freaks me out.

I feel like you could watch 'Grand Budapest' without sound, and it would still be funny.