#Entertainment Quotes

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

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

“Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians, and I like to watch both of 'em at play, either back home in their native state, or after they've been captured and sent to a zoo, or to Washington.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.”

“It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.”

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

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

“Moving pictures can be and will be new and fresh and exciting as long as there are ideas and talent in the world.”

“We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.”

“It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.”

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

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

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

“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 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.”

“Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. In my business of motion pictures and television entertainment, many minds and skillful hands must collaborate...T he work seeks to comprehend the spiritual and material needs and yearnings of gregarious humanity. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life.”

“A good story can take you on a fantastic journey.”

“We seem to know when to 'tap the heart.' Others have hit the intellect. We can hit them in all emotional way. Those who appeal to the intellect only appeal to a very limited group. The real thing behind this is: we are in the motion picture business, only we are drawing them instead of photographing them.”

“My business is making people, especially children, happy.”

“I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.”

“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.”

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

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

“I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.”

“I'm a big 'Goosebumps' fan - 'Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes.' My favorites are the pick-your-own-death ones.”

“One of the things I like about when I tour sometimes is that occasionally you'll see a dad there with his 12-year-old son and they're both enjoying it.”

“My goal is to entertain myself and others.”

“Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.”

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

“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.”

“When you turn professional, you become an entertainer, and like every other entertainer, you don't want to get a bad review.”

“I love being backstage, or doing littler things like Blame Canada.”

“I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.”

“I only ever play Vegas one night at a time.”

“I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time.”

“I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.”

“They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it”

“I don't want to push the envelope. Let the envelope stay in the middle of the table. I'll just make you laugh.”

“The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.”

“I am only a public entertainer who understands his time.”

“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.”

“The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous.”

“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.”

“The people no longer seek consolation in art. But the refined people, the rich, the idlers seek the new, the extraordinary, the extravagant, the scandalous. I have contented these people with all the many bizarre things that come into my head. And the less they understand, the more they admire it. 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.”