Entertainment Quotes

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse.

The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.

Unfortunately most easily-digested entertainment has as much actual content as a Spongebob Squarepants episode, so the trick is to try to fit actual nourishing content into enjoyable entertainment.

We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.

I'd like to do one of those jumps they do in the movies; in a car, over a bridge, in the air with a huge explosion. It would be a final moment of entertainment.

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

I continue to see good growth in the mobile space; I expect to see PCs being the core driver in the home. And I mean that for entertainment along with the work-at-home space.

Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.

Never did I think that I became family entertainment.

I'm more interested in...I'm more of a descendent. I'm more critical. It comes from a different place and nowadays the young people know how to make just light entertainment.

Music is entertainment, and all the various methods of consumption are out there. Go for what you like, simple as that!

Wrestling is a performance. Its entertainment, we [wrestlers] tell stories. We make our fans happy by telling stories but the long and short of it its pretty much the same thing as acting.

Entertainment is not politically neutral.

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions.

Have pride and entertainment. I think that a lot bands just don't know how to do it anymore or they lost interest in it or don't care and are just cashing a paycheck.

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities

Entertainment is like any other major industry; it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made; if you can't, you're out.

...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.

Then again, the name, the associations with a writer's name, can add to the reader's entertainment and pleasure.

There's an element of clowning and entertainment to Trump, that makes it surreal and hard to understand to what extent he is pretending to be a fascist or an authoritarian.

Everyone has the attitude that movies aren't just disposable entertainment - they can really mean something. I love that, because that's the way I feel about films.

I love comics, very much, and I love being alone, but I also love the other part. I love actors, and I love filmed entertainment, and that is not something I plan to turn my back on.

There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, "Entertain me fast!"

If you're an athlete, you might work your entire life, and you win the Super Bowl once, if you're lucky. And I feel like in the arts and entertainment we win the Super Bowl all the time.

I think that when you're constructing entertainment; thrillers, horror movies, or anything that's gonna scare, they're all based on what our natural worries are.

I think entertainment is a perfectly noble occupation.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, Id be like Gandhi. Id be like 250 years old.

People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie. Film schools don't have anything against movies with violence.

We are able to help animals all around the world as a result of the media and entertainment business, which is able to spread compassion and change at rapid speed.

You look at someone like Beyoncé singing Single Ladies, when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

I don't think that growing up in the entertainment industry is the healthiest place for kids. The track record kind of shows that.

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.

What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was Hee Haw, was 360 degrees of entertainment.

I never wanted to end up in entertainment; that wasn't the goal.

For me, a dancer is part of an artist’s entertainment - “backup dancer” isn’t even in my vocabulary.

I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

I love every-day senses, every-day wit and entertainment; a man who is only good on holidays, is good for very little.

Don’t just stand there, let’s get to it, Strike a pose, there’s nothing to it...

We live in a cynical world now, and it's nice to be part of entertainment that is hopeful and heartfelt and wears its heart on its sleeve, but isn't saccharine. It's real. It's grounded.