Quotes About Entertainment

a touring burlesque show was still advertising for chorus girls, and specifying that no girl under 150 pounds need apply.

Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!

I would like to do a musical, if I could find a cool one. A song-and-dance role is closer to me personally than other characters I play.

There's an absolute prejudice that good movies are dramas and comedies are more dismissable. But I couldn't disagree more.

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.

To be honest, I sort of feel like 'movie actor' isn't of this time. I love it. But it's a 20th-century art form.

Movies are different from real life.

Somebody cracks a joke, a whole row laughs, one witticism sets off another, and, like matches, they flare up and burn down.

O]ur relationship with nature has become warped. You see, nature has acquired a purpose where we are concerned. Its task is to amuse us. It no longer exists for its own sake.

So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don't respect their intelligence.

Debería ver la tele más a menudo. Me relaja de un modo agradable. No distingo bien entre mis propios pensamientos y los que proceden de la tele.

In general, my children refused to eat anything that hadn't danced on TV.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

For a more detailed discussion of the subject, read Neal and Jana Hallford's Swords and Circuitry (Hallford and Hallford, 2001).

Never forget that your ultimate goal is to create entertainment for the player—

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

That there was nothing so wrong in the world that we couldn't sort it out by the end of a single half-hour episode (or maybe a two-parter, if it was something really serious).

We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading.

What about The Simpsons, you ask? I knew more about Springfield than I knew about my own city.

If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me.

The bastard even refused to watch E.T.! Who doesn't love E.T., I ask you?

Halliday's favorites, like WarGames, Ghostbusters, Real Genius, Better Off Dead, or Revenge of the Nerds

The only legitimate use of a computer is to play games. —Eugene Jarvis, creator of Defender

Being human totally sucks most of the time. Videogames are the only thing that make life bearable. —Anorak's Almanac, Chapter 91, Verses 1–2