Entertainment Quotes

Ridicule, which chiefly arises from pride, a selfish passion, is but at best a gross pleasure, too rough an entertainment for those who are highly polished and refined.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.

If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.

The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life.

Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best in sports.

If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.

Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine.

I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

Many years ago making movies was something. It was the major entertainment just to go to the cinema, once, twice a week. At the time, something like 400 million people went to the movies.

Television is not my favorite medium, my favorite form of entertainment. Certainly game shows aren't. I don't watch reality shows at all.

It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. 'The West Wing' isn't meant to be good for you.

I think that especially in the U.S. there's this kind of sensationalizing of news - and making it almost like CNN and stuff are entertainment networks.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

One of the principal features of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that don't have anything to do with it.

I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.

Golf is my real profession. Entertainment is just a sideline. I tell jokes to pay my greens fees.

I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment

Your misery is everyone else's entertainment.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.

[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left.

What does one prefer? An art that struggles to change the social contract, but fails? Or one that seeks to please and amuse, and succeeds?

America is the first culture in jeopardy of amusing itself to death.

Garry Shandling has always been a pioneer of… meta entertainment. He's always been a defender of the creative right to use the frame as part of the painting.

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

I get a lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of giving pleasure to people through my singing; that's fantastic, but it's only entertainment.

Any comedic entertainment is better when you get high.

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

A kid asked me for advise about getting into entertainment? I said you better know how to be happy being broke!

Acting's entertainment. It's not brain surgery.