Entertainment Quotes

I have never fired anyone or kept anyone because of ratings or because of entertainment. I keep the people that I think are the best.

We were all imitative. We all wandered in after Miss Edna St. Vincent Millay. We were all being dashing and gallant, declaring we weren't virgins, whether we were or not.

Journalism is straying into entertainment.

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens who watch the show on cable.

The fans of our industry are extremely savvy. At the end of the day, they understand the business is a work. It's entertainment, nothing more.

It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.

If women ran Hollywood, The Hollywood Reporter would have a "Men in Entertainment" issue every year, and those jerks would have to write something.

Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.

[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

[Cole Porter] sang like a hinge.

Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara.

Communities have a responsibility to assist the family in promoting wholesome entertainment. What a community tolerates will become tomorrow's standard for today's youth.

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

We've done this before in other worlds, in other lives. It is our strength, law, medicine, entertainment, and computers, the networking of energy. All of these are arts.

A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'

I would love to write and produce. I feel as if as an actor I'm just a small part you have to multi-task to survive in the entertainment industry.

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

We all know the huge problem there is with entertainment in general leaving out women. Especially as actors, we know there are fewer great parts for women.

I don't see art as entertainment.

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.

Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.

Books of entertainment first led Adam Clarke to believe in a spiritual world.

By moving to London I removed myself from the madness of the entertainment industry. I love the city and the culture, and it was an opportunity to bring my children up in a more sane environment.

If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

I could give a flying crap about the political process. We're an entertainment company.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

One of the things that makes any good entertainment, whether it's a play, drama, comedy, television, film, whatever, is that you feel a certain amount of spontaneity.

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

The Queen Elizabeth II provides vast amounts of entertainment for an age that has forgotten how to amuse itself unaided.

Life is not entertainment. Life is not distraction.

The tech folks have seen WiFi as the way to untether. And what better reason to untether than entertainment content? So there's nobody better positioned than the in-home Wi-Fi purveyor.

the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment.

I would like to expand my brand to include destinations in Vegas and also become an entertainment news correspondent.

I'm not interested in entertainment.

You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

For me cinema is not primarily entertainment. I don't watch fun blockbusters myself.

Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.

I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it.

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.