Entertainment Quotes

A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins.

Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

Here we are now, entertain us.

Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

By amusing myself with all these games, all this nonsense, all these picture puzzles, I became famous... I am only a public entertainer who has understood his time.

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.

I just make what I like - warm and human stories, ones about historic characters and events, and about animals. If there is a secret, I guess it's that I never make the pictures too childish, but always try to get in a little satire of adult foibles.

We have always tried to be guided by the basic idea that, in the discovery of knowledge, there is great entertainment - as, conversely, in all good entertainment, there is always some grain of wisdom, humanity, or enlightenment to be gained.

I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway.

I'm a bad guy. But if I was a good guy, nobody would want to pay to see me fight.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

They can boo me, yell at me, and throw peanuts at me, as long as they pay to get in.

People sold everything - their cars, their land for miles, to come in and see me beat. I went to the bank laughing every time.

Be loud, be pretty and keep their black-hatin' asses in their chairs

The most important thing in the world for show business, really, you know everything's a high-tech business, but what people want now is what they can't get - exclusivity.

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.

I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

We must be contented to amuse, when we cannot inform.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.

You have but little more to do than throw up your cap for entertainment these American days.... Farmers' sons will stare by the hour to see a juggler draw ribbons from his throat, though he tells them it is all deception. Surely, men love darkness rather than light.

If the boxers are a little more colorful, talk a little like I did and just do half as much as I did for boxing, it will be all right.

Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?What masque, what music? How shall we beguileThe lazy time if not with some delight?

A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

I only ever play Vegas one night at a time.

I don't watch a lot of comedy. For relaxation and escape, I watch shows about how people survive bear attacks. Or old episodes of 'Law and Order,' the Benjamin Bratt/Jerry Orbach era.

Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

People look at me as some bruiser, but I want to entertain people. I want people to applaud. I want to be the cause of people being happy, their emotions changing, to tell me I did a good performance.

Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

I'd love to develop and star in my own children's show, write children's books, do children's albums, movies, DVDs, etc.

If you're a guest [at my $113 million house], you'll be able to call up on screens throughout the house almost any image you like - presidential portraits, reproductions of High Renaissance paintings, pictures of sunsets, airplanes, skiers in the Andes, a rare French stamp, the Beatles in 1965.

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.

I do not make films primarily for children. I make them for the child in all of us, whether we be six or sixty.

Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience.

There's only one thing that can kill the movies, and that's education.

Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

I'm gonna see 'Mission Impossible' Part 9 because I like Tom Cruise movies! But just because the box office has that one receipt from the ticket I purchased, doesn't mean it represents someone who liked it.

Some say, what is the Salvation of the Movies? I say, run 'em backwards. It can't hurt 'em and it's worth a trial.

We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we haveTo wear away this long age of three hoursBetween our after-supper and bedtime?

Sometimes they laugh at things I don't think are funny, but I believe if they're laughing at me, it's a good show.

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with "expressing" myself with obscure creative impressions.

The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life.

I also love being able to do something that kids and families can enjoy because I have two children of my own and I want them to grow up watching all the fabulous animated movies and cartoons that I loved to watch as a kid.