Quotes About Entertainment

To me, everything is a joke in MMA when it comes to serious topics because you can't really talk seriously about anything in our business.

Cinema now can't be just about introspection and atma manthan; such topics won't work.

Of course I gamble, to make the games interesting. But five hundred dollars a game, tops. Or sometimes a thousand. No heart attack bets.

American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.

The WWE is the NFL or the Premier League - it is the top of the tops.

I don't do Jewish stuff because I don't want people to be left out. If I mention the Torah in Alabama, it's not going to go down that well. I used to do some Jewish jokes because when I started, I used to play lots of Jewish country clubs.

I was mad about the theatre growing up, really mad. We had a local theatre, the Torch, and I used to usher there. I would see the shows over and over again.

I think sometimes producers forget that people like interesting things. It doesn't always have to be 'Big Brother' or toil and torment.

I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

In Toronto, the film festival is like a carnival... entire families come to it.

Everything that comes out of Canada musically, I support. I support Toronto 100% because I'm on the side of the music.

I am in Toronto, shooting a movie for NBC.

When I was 12, I played the Artful Dodger in Cameron McKintosh's production of 'Oliver!' when it came to Toronto. Just getting the role shocked my whole family, and I don't think I realized until then just how much I loved getting up in front of people and performing.

In the mid-1970s, there was this huge boom of stand-up comedy throughout North America. I went to see a show at a club called Yuk-Yuks, in Toronto, and I was just fascinated. I ended up coming back for amateur hour on a Monday at midnight and got up there without any thought as to what might come of it.

People in Toronto love to watch fights.

There should be more love in Toronto when it comes to the music and entertainment scenes instead of keeping that Screwface Capital name. There should be more artists eating together, more artists celebrating together and more artists making music together. That's how I feel.

Toronto is one of the biggest spots for music; Caribana and OVO Fest and all that stuff, it's a lot of fun.

I've wrestled in Hamilton and Toronto and the fans have always received me well there... It's always been one of my favorite areas to come in.

But even if you're not a 'Scrubs' follower you'll still have a good time, because all the songs are recognizable and presented in a way that's unique to The Blanks. We had heard that in some countries a cappella is considered torture, so we wanted to make a show that we'd really want to see as well - so it's music but it's also a lot of comedy.

'24' glamorizes torture. I don't think there's any other way of putting it.

I have this system. I torture my husband and everyone around me with my nerves and anxiety. Then, when I get on stage, the fear is gone. I've exhausted myself. It just dissipates.

Reading a book you are not enjoying is a torture not to be undertaken without a reward. I leave plays at the interval, too!

I loved performing in the 'High School Musical' movies - that didn't seem like work - but the gym felt like torture!

As a child, I used to 'torture' other kids by making them be in my shows. I would sell tickets to neighbors and organize performances.