Quotes About Entertainment

A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

My main point is to be funny if I can slip a message in there, fine.

Funny is not a color. Being black is only good from the time you get from the curtain to the microphone.

When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

What type of influence do books and especially horror films have on a spiritual life? A negative one.

Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids and family and friends, and I don't like bad things. I don't think they're funny, and it's irresponsible to make movies that don't show you how that's not good.

A fart is just your arse applauding.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

Blessed are those who yodel - for they shall never be troubled by offers of work.

Nothing can take the sting off the world's economic problems like watching millionaires present each other golden statues.

I miss those days, those midnight hours on the turnpike with nothing on the road but trucks and me, and nothing on my mind but the act and how I could make it funnier.

Everyone has temptations but some folks entertain them . . .Get your eyes off the temptation and onto Christ!

We have arrived at the point where we are flippant about God. We tell jokes about Him. God's name is used so often in profanity in the entertainment world that sometimes it is embarrassing to watch television.

Our schedules are so hectic we can't get everything done, or else we are bored and restless, constantly looking for something to amuse us. We are the most frantic generation in history—and also the most entertained. The Bible tells us that both extremes are wrong.

Too many Christian TV and radio programs have been geared to please, entertain, and gain the favor of the world. The temptation is to compromise, to make the gospel more appealing and attractive.

Our] minds are molded in many different ways— often in ways we are not aware of at the time. I am convinced that many things—the films we watch, the television we see, the music we listen to, the books we read—have a great effect on us.

Parents have bought into the world's pastimes chock-full of pop culture, and it is searing the souls of our children. Parents have allowed electronic babysitters to infiltrate their homes and minds; young people's sense of right and wrong is being choked by wild and rank weeds in a moral wasteland.

Select with care the books you read, choose discerningly the kind of entertainment you attend, the kind of associates with whom you mingle, and the kind of environment in which you place yourself.

America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest variety and greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves.

Our magazine shelves are filled with crime and sex pulp-magazines that are being read and devoured by millions of young people . . . Scores are seeing each week the trash that Hollywood produces. Truly our children are "movie mad.

All transgressions begin with sinful thinking . . . guard against the pictures of lewdness and sensuality that Satan flashes upon the screen of your imagination, select with care the books you read, choose discerningly the kind of entertainment you attend, the kind of associates with whom you mingle, and the kind of environment in which you place yourself.

Never has there been a time when men tried so desperately to have fun as they do today.