Quotes About Entertainment

Television is very instant. Theatre is much more free, but you are very much on your own up there on stage and in control of your own performance.

It's all very well making records, but the joy of performing is that you get to meet people who give you instant feedback.

Akbar and Birbal stories have an instant connect with people of all ages.

WWE definitely gives you the forum, the stage to do different things and see what works. That's the cool thing about being in front of a live audience every single week in WWE. You get instant feedback.

I enjoy stand-up because it has the biggest reward: instant gratification. You can hear the people laughing.

Ever since I was a kid and watched magicians on stage, like David Copperfield or Siegfried and Roy, I instantly knew how they did everything. In my head, it just all worked.

One day, I was flipping through the channels and I happened to flip the channel onto wrestling. I had never seen it before; I didn't know what it was. I was hooked instantly.

The Malayalam industry is down to earth and instantly recognizes talent.

I'd like to think at some point instead of it being a woman's film or a man's film, it is just a great story, and both sexes can go and get the same enjoyment out of it.

Basic Instinct 2' is camp, not because it takes itself too seriously, nor because it sends itself up, but because we are not sure quite how seriously it wants us to take it.

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience.

I think you develop strong instincts when you're a comedian. You have to pay your bills by making people laugh every six seconds... or not. I had to do that for 22 years.

Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world.

The big picture, for me, having grown up with 'Top Gear,' is that it was loved. We need to get that back. It needs to be an institution.

I don't think that cinema is bigger than family as an institution.

I can't believe they would cancel 'Big Brother!' It's like an institution!

I can do a gig without an instrument.

People love to hear a guy who is really good on his instrument. They love to watch him go.

People don't come to see a Billie Eilish show to come to see me. They come to see her. So I just try not to screw up too much on my instruments.

Every Christmas, all I ever wanted was Playskool instruments. It was my entire life. And then by the time I was 6 or 7 years old, it became, 'Now I'm going to force my entire family to watch me perform all these rock songs.'

Before television, there was a piano in many homes in this country. People played instruments on an amateur level and because of that, they became informed amateurs. We've lost that.

That's what makes me insufferable to be around, is that most of my life I have assumed that everyone wants to see me perform and do things all the time.

The film industry not only in India but also Hollywood is insular. It's inward-looking.

Insult comedy has been around forever. I can make fun of people, and they won't get mad at me.