Quotes About Entertainment

The truth is it's fun to be up there and know that you're in your underwear. Even though I know I'm exploiting my sexuality in a certain way, it's fun! It boosts my ego.

I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.

I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

The truth is, for some absurd reason, no one is willing to admit that the interests of the producers and the theater owners are not the same.

I think the media's the kind of thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.

Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

Comedy is truth. We should not apologize for it.

To tell you the truth, I never wanted to become a moviemaker. It was like I was a cinepihile, and I go, like, three or four times per week to the cinema, and I like to watch films.

In few people is discretion stronger than the desire to tell a good story.

I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.

With Twitter, you just want to make people laugh in their meeting; on stage, people have paid for their tickets with their hard-earned money, so I owe them the truth as I experience it.

There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.

I love books because I don't have to wait for the commercials to be over to find out what happens.

Remember, whoever is funny is king.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement

Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Stephen Colbert. Those are the guys I look at who are telling me pretty much the truth. And they throw humor into it which makes it much more interesting to listen to.

There's an idea that action movies are more attractive to one gender than the other or different kinds of people or whatever. The truth is action is not any different than any other part of a story.

History will always repeat itself, because it makes for good reading. It doesn't have to be truthful or factual, just entertaining with the odd fact thrown in for good measure.

Toss back your coif and quaff, my querulous queen!

the disappearance of an audience that had supported experimentation and made such works financial, as well as critical, successes. The decline of liberal-arts teaching in schools and colleges meant that the new audience was less cultured and intellectually oriented; wedded to television and movies, it wanted to be entertained rather than challenged.

People in concert crowds were not used to being noticed and singled out by a band—it was as if the television set had started talking back to them.

People work all day and they want a release," he told the L.A. Times. "They want a way to deal with all the frustrations that build up. We try to provide that in our music.

why let the truth get in the way of a good story?