Quotes About Entertainment

Perhaps you've heard the one about the difference between a bass player and a large pepperoni pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four. I

Entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it, they might go off the deep end.

I'd like to extend a special thank you to my favorite sins: fairy tales and chick flicks.

Then the movie started. It was in a foreign language and had subtitles, which was fun because I had never read a movie before.

The prom's music came from this really bad cover band called The Gypsies of the Allegheny

I thought that in those movies and television shows when they talk about having a coffee break that they should have a masturbation break.

The movie itself was very interesting, but I didn't think it was very good because I didn't really feel different when it was over.

Do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time—of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid.

The summer movies are coming out. My advice: just stay home and burn a good book.

Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories.

That's why our TVs are brimming with so much hot man-on-pan action. You can't channel surf for long without seeing turkey getting stuffed over and over until they finally cut to the gravy shot.

The [Motion Picture Production Code] took effect on March 31, 1930, 5 months too late to prevent the Wall Street Crash, but early enough to keep The Sixties from happening until approximately 1964. (When America fell victim to the British Invasion).

Only in Nevada can you put up a billboard that says "Hot Slots" and attract thousands of women.

Others may do as they please, but as for me,' he concluded ferociously, 'I shall never disclose to anybody that an acrobat, a trained bear of the magazines, a juggler of comic paragraphs, is not a priceless pearl of art and philosophy.

1939 New York World's Fair

I also knew that he was the kind of anile little runt who, in foyers and theatre bars the West End over, can be heard bleating into their gin and tonics, I go to the theatre to be entertained.

I like to think of this little [newspaper] column as a brassière, or do I mean brasserie? Brazier, possibly. All three! A column that lifts, separates, supports, serves excellent cappuccino and crackles merrily with sweet-smelling old chestnuts.

Can't I just like horror because it's great? Does there have to be some big explanation?

She's a gorehound, a horror fiend, the more brutal the better, bring it on, faster, pussycat, kill kill kill, but that's all on-screen. And at some level she never forgets that all the blood's corn syrup.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.

But writers INVITE ghosts, maybe; along with actors and artists, they are the only totally accepted mediums of our society. They make worlds that never were, populate them with people who never existed, and then invite us to join them in their fantasies. And we do it, don't we? Yes. We PAY to do it.

And you, CONSTANT READER. Thank God you're still there after all these years. If you're having fun, I am, too.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes. The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story  . . . . to make him/her forget, whenever possible, that he/she is reading a story at all.