Quotes About Entertainment

We dare not trust our wit for making our house pleasant to our friend, so we buy ice cream.

And they like being able to turn on the television day in and day out to see someone that they know and they feel comfortable with and trust hopefully and respect even.

Trust me, kids - your homework can wait. Don't need to be doing homework while Whose Line is on; skip it!

I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.

we live in an age which must be amused, though genius, feeling, trust, and principle be the sacrifice.

Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.

If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

Do you want to know the truth, or see me hit a few dingers?

If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?

There is no bad day that can't be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end.

My only goal is to make you laugh, not tell you the truth.

I'm not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.

He actually wasn't too bad. For a big cat doing the mambo.

Of course they do. It's like an elaborate game of fetch—ow!

I don't think I could ever do a network sitcom because the humor is often based on some trite circumstance. I don't want to be a part of a show where it's mostly about coming up with the jokes.

The public considers all women on stage to be of questionable morals, if not outright whores. But the serious Shakespearean actresses console themselves that at least they aren't involved in the vulgarity of musical theater. And those of us in musical theater congratulate ourselves on not being involved in the pornographic nonsense that is the burlesque. I don't know to whom the burlesque performers compare themselves, but I'm sure they feel superior to someone.

She understood the charges of profligacy and shallowness pelted at the Upper Ten Thousand, at those whose entire lives revolved around endless arrays of entertainment. But she also knew that for those on the inside, it was the only way they had been taught to live. Few, in the end, ever truly defied the way they were taught to live.

Burl Ives singing children's songs.

For him, mastery of the game world is a source of joy.

It might be nice to have my own place if I should have a gentleman caller

In the main street of Winesburg crowds filled the stores and sidewalks. Night came on, horses whinnied, the clerks in stores ran madly about, children became lost and cried lustily, an American town worked terribly at the task of amusing itself.