Quotes About Entertainment

Tommy Dorsey was the last of the band leaders... He was ahead of his time; if he got drunk, he got difficult, but then who the hell isn't difficult when you get drunk.

Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.

It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time.

The only good thing about going to the fights is you can go into the green room and you can see some of your old friends that you haven't seen in a long time.

I cant predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.

The reality shows are getting worse and worse. They're out of control and have been for some time.

I have a really, really hard time sitting down and watching a TV show, except I'm apparently willing to watch the same episode of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' like, seven times.

I'm always being asked if I watch 'The X Factor,' and I do from time to time. I know it makes for great TV and that Simon Cowell has a real gift.

At some point in time, in the future, people are going to refer to the Step Up films as the films they grew up on. Hopefully, that inspires them to get in dance films that are being made.

I never said becoming the slayer would be a field trip to a Justin Bieber concert.

I can but just recollect having been amused at the Theatres, and the Opera, and the Pantheon, and Ranelagh, and all those places, for their own sakes. Soon, very soon, we go out to see people, not things: then we grow tired of seeing people; then we grow tired of being seen by people; and then we go out merely because we can't stay at home. A dismal story, and a true one.

Some people can make their ears move—it's their party trick. Don't feel bad if you can't do it. Just find yourself another party trick.

In the end we're all Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

People are too lazy and too stupid to think for themselves that we've got sitcoms with canned laughter that let's you know when to laugh if you're to stupid to know when the joke is.

In the end we're all Jerry Springer guests, really, we just haven't been on the show.

Behind every book for young people and every global product of family entertainment, the hum of boardroom discussion about the politics of the work can be heard.

One of Lindon's amusing word-unit palindromes reads: Girl, bathing on Bikini, eyeing boy, finds boy eyeing bikini on bathing girl. Other palindromes are symmetric with respect to back-to-front reading letter by letter-Able was I ere I saw Elba (attributed jokingly to Napoleon), or the title of a famous NOVA program: A Man, a Plan, a Canal, Panama.

Do you know, by the way, that in show business the magician is considered to be completely without artistic talent?

En la civilización del espectáculo, el intelectual sólo interesa si sigue el juego de moda y se vuelve un bufón.

Despite being the Most Likely on a list of The Rock Stars Most Likely to Croak ..., Keith has outlasted ex-bandmates, ex-drug buddies and, so he claims, several of his own doctors. Yet as the man himself observes, Every day of my life is show business. Start him up ...

Today, we live in a culture that is less concerned with excellence and more concerned with authenticity. That's why there are more than two hundred reality TV shows.

There is a big difference between living in a society that hunts whales and living in one that views them. Nature is being reduced to precious demonstrations for entertainment and education, something far less natural than hunting. Are we headed for a world where nothing is left of nature but parks?

I could eat bloody Elvis - if you put enough vinegar on him.