Quotes About Entertainment

The average age of a gamer is 33 years old, not eight years old, and in fact, if we look at the projected demographics of video game play, the video game players of tomorrow are older adults.

When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.

After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley.

There was a period of 10 years where the conventional wisdom was Black shows don't sell overseas, therefore nobody is interested.

I was going to hang it up on the twenty-fifth year of this show. I don't know why. Maybe twenty-five years is enough. And I found out that I was having so much fun doing the show that we decided to stick around for a while.

I was five years old; I got addicted to being on stage. I felt like it was the most wonderful place on Earth, performing in front of an audience, who in this case were a bunch of classmates, kids my age.

We decided to play the NEC because we were asked to, and because we actually rather like the place: we've always enjoyed doing it before. We don't often get sensible offers to play in the UK, so most years we just play on the mainland, with the occasional exotic detour.

I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been addicted to video games ever since.

There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.

Shows like 'All in the Family' and now 'Mom' - there's a tradition of tackling real issues.

There is a very strong theatre-going tradition in Moscow. It has stayed strong.

The Disney tradition - number one, it's a great American classic tradition - and it's something where you don't want to go over certain lines. You want to poke fun, but you don't want to poke fun in a way that's hurtful.

The Muppets have such a great tradition of bringing together all of genres of actors and all ages of actors.

'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the grand science fiction tradition. But also, it will perhaps stimulate some discussion to help you sort out on your own where you might choose to go in terms of your own needs. Now, I say that without preaching.

Disney has a great tradition of enchanting children and giving them something to behold.

In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it very, very well indeed for the entertainment of everybody else.

In places like Glasgow and Newcastle, audiences have a tradition of being amusingly combative. But they're not trying to ruin the act, they're trying to give you a challenge. It's like a cat playing with a mouse - the cat doesn't want the mouse to die, it wants to keep it alive for its own amusement and to be entertained by its struggle.

Comedy is my favorite genre. I think it often doesn't get the respect it deserves, and I think one of the reasons is there was a tradition in the past of comedy looking kind of brightly lit and like a sitcom.

I think there's a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.

In Korean films there is only really a strong tradition of melodramas.

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.

I'm not a massive reader of traditional books.

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.