Quotes About Entertainment

In my opening seconds, I would say, It's great to be here, then move to several other spots on the stage and say, No, it's great to be here! I would move again: No, it's great to be here!

Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.

teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

Doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand.

Enjoyment while performing was rare—enjoyment would have been an indulgent loss of focus that comedy cannot afford. After the shows, however, I experienced long hours of elation or misery depending on how the show went, because doing comedy alone onstage is the ego's last stand.

Now that I had assigned myself an act without jokes, I gave myself a rule. Never let them know I was bombing

I did stand-up comedy for eighteen years.

might try for a doctorate in philosophy and become a teacher, as teaching is, after all, a form of show business.

You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies.

And now Dr. Phil's latest book, Here's Some More Advice I Pulled Out of My Ass. —David Letterman

We pay to watch, read, or be in the presence of a flow experience. If quantified, you'd find it's a major chunk of the GDP.

Violence pervaded their entertainment as well. Tuchman describes two of the popular sports of the time: "Players with hands tied behind them competed to kill a cat nailed to a post by battering it to death with their heads, at the risk of cheeks ripped open or eyes scratched out by the frantic animal's claws....

However much one admires the improved views of the Boston waterfront, the lines of the stealth bomber, or the acting skills of Keira Knightley in Pirates of the Caribbean, or indeed of the gorilla in King Kong, this still seems like a very good deal.

I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.

I love the Potter films. I found them the most wonderful sort of escapism every year or two.

I'd love to do a comedy. I'm terrified of comedy. I don't think I'm funny, but I guess that's why it's so thrilling.

I've always tried to be funny, or stupid, or whatever. I love making people laugh and I think it comes quite naturally to me.

I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them.

I want to make music that lots of people will love.

Everyone loves a good singsong, so we all do a bit of karaoke or something.

I love DJing, I do. I love everything that comes with it; it's fun and it's kind of glamorous.

I love going to all kinds of movies, I screen DVDs in my house, but I go to the theatre a lot in the afternoon. I don't get bugged because there aren't many people around.

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.