Quotes About Entertainment

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for our ability to amuse them.

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

Starting with a party scene for 600 cast and end up singing on top of a giant elephant...does it get any better than this?

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

The public will buy a certain amount of poetry if you give them their striptease." -- Ezra Pound

Kittens believe that all nature is occupied with their diversion.

Oh, Joe, can't producers ever be wrong? I'm a good writer—honest. I thought you were going to play fair.

I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.

Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown.

I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.

California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car found its earliest and fullest expression, where suburbs blossomed, where going to gym replaced going to church, where forces that lead so many to assume that direct democracy is the wave of the future - declining political parties, telecommuting, new technology, the internet generation 0 are all most well developed in this vast land.

I took Miss Stanwyck home and had a great time listening to her dish the party and everyone there. We went in for a nightcap, and I ended up spending the night. We enjoyed each other's company to the fullest.

Loretta Young, a world-class Catholic who kept a "swear box" on the set into which everyone had to make a deposit for their naughty words. Merman saw it, turned to Loretta, and said, "What the hell is this?" Loretta smiled sweetly and said, "Oh, Ethel, I'm afraid now you have to put twenty-five cents into the swear box." Ethel gave her a look and grinned as she said, "How much will it cost me to tell you to go fuck yourself?

Death will find me long before I tire of contemplating an evening spent in his company during which he enthralled a mixed audience consisting of a fur trader, a Cree Indian matron, and an Anglican missionary, with an hour-long monologue on sexual aberrations in female pygmy shrews. (The trader misconstrued the tenor of the discourse; but the missionary, inured by years of humorless dissertations, soon put him right.)

A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show.

During the day she would read science fiction novels. In the evenings she watched television. And she ate, and ate, and drank, and ate.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

We watch TV together all the time. Just going through Midsomer Murders is going to take another decade.

What's the difference between a classical guitar and a pizza? A pizza can feed a family of four.

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

Why don't the entertainment industry and religious institutions support more songs, books, movies praising friendship? Because friendship, unlike marriage, offers no capital to church, state, and corporation.

sentados en sus culos alicorándose y viendo en la caja estúpida a veintidós adultos infantiles darle patadas a un balón.

cuando la humanidad se sienta en sus culos ante un televisor a ver veintidós adultos infantiles dándole patadas a un balón no hay esperanzas…

I think America becomes more disgruntled by going to the movies and having an endlessly good time at them.