Quotes About Entertainment

The reason I've never gone for pilot season even as a younger actor, and wouldn't entertain that sort of thing now, is the idea of signing a piece of paper that binds me for six or seven years.

When you sign over your music to the BBC or Channel 4, you are signing it over, and they either use it, or they don't.

Without question, Jerry 'The King' Lawler is my most recognizable partner and my favorite to work with over the years. We endured several things together that reach far beyond merely signing on and subsequently saying 'good night everybody' at the end of the show.

I can't imagine Jon Cryer performing with the New York Philharmonic isn't one of the signs of apocalypse.

Comedy club audiences pay up to $25 per person and another fistful of cash to cover a two-drink minimum, so when they don't like something, they let you know - with silence.

The greatest comedian I've ever seen is Jack Benny. He wasn't afraid of the silences.

It's kind of like Silence of the lambs meets Boogey Nights.

To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.

The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!

There is nothing quite as loud as the silence of an audience when a comedian is on stage.

Most American adults know what a drag queen is, but as they're portrayed in films like 'Dressed to Kill' and 'Silence of the Lambs.'

Making people laugh is easy for me. I'm quite proud of that. But I'm prouder of silencing an audience for a minute because they're thinking about something.

It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkies instead of the other way around.

When I was a kid, I loved all the silent comedians - Buster Keaton, Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin. And I used to imitate them. I'd go to see a Buster Keaton movie and come home and try things out I'd seen. I learned to do pratfalls when I was very young.

I know miming means to act without words, but the audience isn t supposed to be silent as well!

In all the classic comedies of the old silent movies, the pratfall always got the biggest lauch. Even more than a pie in the face.

I connected very much with all the work of Joan Crawford because she started as a flapper. She used to dance and sing and she was very cute. She had something that was so different from what she is at the end of her life and she started in the silent movies and then went into the talkies.

It's the demand of all demands to do a car chase that's unique because there are so many... really since the beginning of film, even in the silent era, 'The Keystone Cops.'

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

I have done 'Gutar-Gu,' which was a silent comedy show.

I used to watch the 'Jackie Gleason Show' and Phil Silvers, those early TV things. And a lot of them were patterned on the silent comedies of the '20s.

I always try to make popular films. Even in black-and-white and silent.

My father had been an avid fan of Chaplin during the silent film days, but when the talkies came along, my father lost all interest in movies.