Quotes About Entertaining

I find myself in pretty hilarious situations.

3.6.40: From a letter from Lady Oxford15 to the Daily Telegraph, on the subject of war economies: Since most London houses are deserted there is little entertaining ... in any case, most people have to part with their cooks and live in hotels. Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99% of the population exist.

The movie producer and all-around mensch Stuart Cornfeld once told me that in a good screenplay, every structural unit needs to do two things: (1) be entertaining in its own right and (2) advance the story in a non-trivial way.

You're surely not going to tell me that eels find you more entertaining than I do?' he said incredulously.

Too bad, wasn't it?' Damerel said. 'Instead of dying heroically for love I was left disconsolate - though not, I must admit, for long!' She raised her eyes at that, and said warmly: 'I am excessively glad to hear that, and I do *hope* you next mistress was entertaining as well as pretty!' The sneer vanished from his face; the smile that lit his eyes was one of pure amusement. 'A charming little ladybird!' he assured her.

When we were working on 'Julie & Julia,' I went back to the Julia Child cookbook and made some things I haven't made in a while, one being beef bourguignon, which to me is a hilariously 1960s dish that everyone felt they had to serve at a dinner party or they weren't a grown-up.

The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.

Tina Fey is just amazing. And she is just so funny and so good hearted.

I love Jesus Christ with all my heart and everything He stands for. I think that sums up everything that I want for my life, everything I want for my family, everything I want for my career. I want it to be entertaining. I want people to smile and tap their toes, but I want it to be meaningful when the day is done.

I'll never have a house party again. You stand around for ages worried that nobody's coming and the next minute you're queuing for your own toilet while someone you've never met is asking you if you know whose party this is.

I like getting toilet paper thrown at me.

No matter what time your guests arrive, pretend they're early, so naturally you're not ready.

There are very sophisticated, very time-consuming dishes to prepare; always from scratch, and always in excess of what you could possibly need. You tend to kill your guests with kindness around here.

With song titles, I try to keep a healthy sense of humor while saying something at the same time.

Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.

It [Dr Phil] was great. We had such a good time. Never a dull moment on set, considering the 18 kids. It never got boring.

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

I just had way too much energy for six A.M. Too much motivation. It was like the drunk side of my brain was trying to act distracting and entertaining, so the business side wouldn't realize it was being held hostage by a drunk. I

Many pretenders to wisdom say that this is all trick and make-believe and nothing more, that there is no such thing as paleface cemeteries, doughy-nosed and gummy-eyed, and never was. Well, perhaps it was just another empty invention – there are certainly fables enough in this world. And yet, even if the story isn't true, it does have a grain of sense and instruction to it, and it's entertaining as well, so it's worth the telling.

I be goofy, kinda funny. Acting stupid but they love me.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

bon viveur, wit, raconteur, mimic, linguist—endowed with a vast range of knowledge, both serious and ribald.

malodorous, and always supremely entertaining. Here too