Quotes About Entertainment

I have received more fulfillment and adulation than I would ever know what to do with in terms of show business.

The people were just so lovely and accommodating and had really interesting questions and it was just interesting to see how the show is actually received in so many different countries.

I'm more interested in - I was going to say putting on an interesting show, but then when I think about it, it's more like putting on several interesting shows. I think I'm more interested in doing funny things than calculating how I'll best be received.

After over 50 years of headlining, I've been received very beautifully. But I always say, when you're onstage, you can't please everybody. I'm sure there are people who may not take to what I do, but that's OK.

The more you work in this business as a comedian, the closer you get to just being yourself onstage, on camera, the more well received you are.

As an actor you have to get used to receiving gentle little pies in the face.

It's just the absolute bomb. Ghost in the Shell was really good, it's a little bit more recent.

My favorite series of 'Peep Show' is always the most recent one, which I can say with all honesty because I don't write it. It gets better and better.

There are so few good comedy sequels. The only one in recent memory that's good is '22 Jump Street.' It's a hard genre.

I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on.

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.

I've been watching 'Lost' on DVD recently. I keep thinking, 'Where are those actors now?' Nobody knows.

I started watching some 'Doctor Who' recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime - I'm pathetic.

I've been watching 'Dexter' recently; I love that show. It's my favorite.

Bolivia recently did what every country should do - banned the use of animals in circuses.

I heard David Sedaris read live recently which was a complete delight. Few writers make me laugh out loud on the bus. He does.

We just recently saw Bruno Mars at the Hollywood Bowl, and he was incredible.

Think about when you were 12 or 13. The stuff I watched was awful! I tried to watch a 'He-Man' cartoon recently, and I was like, 'Oh my God!' I just had, like, a small brain. I was stupid.

I'm not a big reality TV person, although recently someone got me into 90 Day Fiance,' which is pretty addictive.

I played a lot of pubs, and some were a bit rougher than others, but once you got on, it was the same reception everywhere.

I like Manchester - I've played it many times. The people have a lot of chein, a lot of heart, and the audiences are very receptive.

If you can reach people in their pockets, on their lunch breaks, on their commutes to and from work, on recess at school, and make things they want to see, that's an amazing thing for a show like ours.

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

History has shown that even in a recession, consumers go to shows.