Quotes About Entertainment

I've been playing golf a long time, although it's not really true that on my first round they strapped my bag on the back of a dinosaur.

I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.

People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide your kids' ears from.

I'm open to different parts. I would love to do something where I can sing and act at the same time.

I think honestly, believe it or not, that Dude, Where's My Car? in a way represents its time better than almost any film made around that.

I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.

In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself.

If I had a choice, I would do comedy all the time. It's just the most challenging thing. To make someone laugh is the most challenging thing, and the most rewarding thing, in entertainment.

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.

A good show makes me happy. It's a great sensation. If you could capture a great atmosphere and do it every time, that would be amazing.

When I was at college - that was the first time I tried singing. I played in a band, and people seemed to like it.

I had a great time doing 'Torchwood,' I really did.

Humour ended up being a really useful skill when it came time to be an international television celebrity.

I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.

Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school.

I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was a teenager, I suppose I figured that I'd always been in that world to some extent.

While I filmed the 'Walker, Texas Ranger' series for eight and a half years, I had never had much time to read, except for screenplays of the episodes.

The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

Steve Martin is one of my favorite performers, writers, artists of all time.