Quotes About Entertainment

Carly Simon abandoned the stage for seven years after collapsing from nerves before a concert in Pittsburgh in 1981. When she resumed performing, she would sometimes ask members of her band to spank her before she went onstage, to distract her from her anxiety.

I'm a huge fan of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost.

The 'My Mother the Car' script read like Neil Simon compared to the 'Gilligan's Island' script.

Making good television is what Simon Cowell does. That's his business.

I've really enjoyed doing 'Annie Get Your Gun' and loved Neil Simon stuff like 'Chapter Two.'

The 'X Factor' is the biggest show on TV and the other shows are just copying us with their silly chairs. Simon Cowell is the king of TV and if he's not involved then it's not good.

Simon and I are good pals. We're friends except when we walk out on 'The X Factor,' he always has a go at me. And I never expect it. We're good friends behind the scenes, we do Westlife together, we are friends.

We've done 'Britain's Got Talent' and we work well with Simon Cowell and have done for years.

With 'Popworld' I've had the most brilliant time and I'm so proud of everything Simon and I have done with the show.

There's a reason 'The Price Is Right' is on in every country in the world. It's simple, and people want to know the price of things. Plus we give away brilliant prizes.

People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.

We live in a country where movies, music, and sports are more important than God to a lot of people. It's why Colin Kaepernick's protest rocked the nation and got the whole world talking. Taking a knee is a simple act of defiance. Had Colin done it anywhere other than the football field, it might not have even made the news.

I grew up off 'The Simple Life' where they really made just being a personality a thing.

I'm so bad at dancing that I've actually been in two movies where the director of the film saw me dancing and thought it was so funny that in one movie they had me do it as the mental dancing of a real simple person. The other one was, like, to-be-laughed-at dancing. That's how bad my dancing is.

People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

I actually had publishers that would encourage me at times to keep it simpler, not pack in so much information, but I'm a fan of songs and movies and books that the second time you read them, you find more stuff that you missed, so I like to pay attention to that detail.

When 'Family Matters,' and 'Full House' were on, back then it was a simpler time.

The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.

To be perfectly honest, drama is a lot simpler than comedy.

It's such a complicated thing to put a movie together. The book world is so much simpler.

I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

An operetta is simply a small and gay opera.