Quotes About Entertainment

I am hard put to think of a single positive thing that commercial Hindi cinema has achieved.

Hindi cinema has only one religion, and that's money.

Somehow, Hindi movies never took me in the same way Hollywood films did. Even at the age of five or six, I could see the difference in the quality of execution.

I am a kid who grew up watching mainstream Hindi films like 'Sholay,' 'Satte Pe Satta' and 'Mr India.'

I was a big fan of 'Bigg Brother' and 'Bigg Boss Hindi.' Hence, I decided to enter the show.

I enjoy doing a Hindi film more than South flicks.

The way cinema has grown I think, doesn't matter if its Hindi or South. People watch all languages.

People want to see me for at least two hours uninterrupted in a Hindi film.

Eh, Whappaaaa!

It's very original, no doubt, but not for a hot evening. What I need is some trollop.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water — an inch deep and then the mud.

And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive.

There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs ...

Gambling, beer and football filled the horizons of their minds.

However, peace was restored when two clowns hurried on to the stage and began letting off crackers and making obscene jokes.

There was a whole chain of separate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama, and entertainment generally. Here were produced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime, and astrology, sensational five-cent novelettes, films oozing with sex, and sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means on a special kind of kaleidoscope known as a versificator.

Satire is what closes on Saturday night

I noticed something: if I put a theme park in a story, my prose improved.

Una mayoría incalculable de la humanidad elegirá ver telenovelas en vez de leer a Esquilo;

In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.

Above all, they had the cinema. And this was probably the only area where they had learned everything from their own sensibilities.

I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense .... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu. [As quoted in Jane Aiken Hodge, The Private World of Georgette Heyer (p. xii).]

Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes.

Do you like pets better than toys and books? I always did, so I thought very likely you would too.