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Quotes About Entertaining

Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.
~ Thalia
I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.
~ Anna Paquin
You can invite people over or make your kids their favorite food - that usually inspires me in the kitchen.
~ Marcela Valladolid
Secular entertaining is a terrible bondage. Its source is human pride. Demanding perfection, fostering the urge to impress, it is a rigorous taskmaster which enslaves. In contrast, Scriptural hospitality is a freedom which liberates.
~ Karen Burton Mains
Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
~ Kate Fox
I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun.
~ Britney Spears
I'd like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don't entertain, nobody's listening.
~ Budd Schulberg
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
~ Ian Fleming
Continue, my dear friend. It is interesting for me to see this new Bond. Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining. Continue. Develop your arguments. There may be something I can use to my own chief the next time I want to get out of an unpleasant job.' He grinned maliciously. Bond ignored him.
~ Ian Fleming
Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit of tap dancing. I read a lot of things, and I keep seeing this brocade of voice where someone is trying to be too pally with you or ingratiating on the page.
~ Teju Cole
I was a natural drama queen when I was younger. I was always doing impersonations and showing off.
~ Jodie Comer
My manager and fellow YouTuber, Mike Lamond, encouraged me to start a YouTube channel as a way to practice speaking, entertaining, and being more comfortable in front of a camera. In the beginning, I used an $80 dollar flip-camera and edited every episode myself.
~ Rosanna Pansino
Yeah, so I have, like, a YouTube channel where I kind of use my engineering background to make sort of ridiculous things.
~ Mark Rober
I don't really watch TV; YouTube is far more entertaining. But I have tuned in to 'X Factor' - I like trash and nature programmes.
~ Lynne Ramsay
I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It's a classic trick, but it's human, and it allows characters to have more depth.
~ Phoebe Waller-Bridge
It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
~ Walter Kerr
I like entertaining football but, at the same time, you can't concede goals. That's a tricky balance to find.
~ Freddie Ljungberg
My favourite player was Jack Grealish; top man! He is a naturally gifted footballer and for me, he is a joy to watch. If I could watch any player play, it would be him. He can do everything - he is exciting and tries to make things happen.
~ Dominic Calvert-Lewin
You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want you to just be disgusted and terrified.
~ Bruce Campbell
All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.
~ Ada Leverson
All comedians are a bit attention-seeking and I'm no different. Anyone with the audacity to want to be listened to for an hour and a half must be.
~ Jimmy Carr
I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.
~ Richard Russo
I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, I spent a night with interesting people.
~ Aby Rosen
One thing you don't want to do as a host is be running around all evening. Do as much as you can ahead of time, so all you have to do is grill the main ingredients.
~ Bobby Flay