Quotes About Entertainment

Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs.

When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!

Being able to take a traditional cable-television subscriber and give them new widget type applications to me is huge.

I grew up with 'Roseanne'; I kind of adore her and stuff like' Home Improvement', really traditional American stuff.

The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's something about it that says something positive about the human spirit, that a bunch of people can get together and by following a few simple traffic rules can create art and can entertain an audience and can thrill and exalt each other.

There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.

I never in my life saw myself as a game show host. I don't want to be a traffic cop.

In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.

I had more fun making Traffic than either of the Ocean's films.

The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. Realistically, 50 to 80 percent of all traffic is people downloading stuff for free. If you can turn that huge market share into something that you can monetize, even if it is just with ads, you will end up making more money than with all other revenue streams combined.

I think that sometimes only comedians can reach the peaks of tragedy.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

You never have a comedian who hasn't got a very deep strain of sadness within him or her. Every great clown has been very near to tragedy.

There's obviously a lot of tragedy in comedy; I really enjoy the paradox of what a really good comedy is.

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

For a comedienne, you have to have a little tragedy or a dark side, just not too much. Otherwise it's too disruptive.

It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.

Running my show is really like an actor being in repertory but where, in one day in one performance, you do scenes from a drama, a farce, a low comedy and a tragedy.

Thriller novelists get asked - berated, sometimes - about whether their work glorifies bad behavior, even, exploits human tragedy for entertainment.

I realized I do tragedy better than comedy.

I do comedy to give people an ephemeral escape from the tragedy that permeates everyday life.

I think comedy's harder to pull off on the screen than on the stage, anyway. Tragedy is easier on the screen... oddly enough.

Chuck Lorre and everyone else on 'Mom' did such a great job of balancing that line that rides tragedy and comedy. They make you cry, and then they make you crack up about it.

Some of the best comedy comes from squeezing humour from tragedy and struggle, but the main pursuit of comedy should be laughter.