Entertainment famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.
-- Aaron Levie -
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.
-- Alan Vega -
Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
-- Albert Brooks -
There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.
-- Aloe Blacc -
I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.
-- Alton Brown -
Quill: An instrument of torture yielded by a goose and commonly weilded by as ass.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
The history of modern culture is a history of popular entertainments evolving into art.
-- Andrew Hoberek -
I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.
-- Andy Cohen -
Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.
-- Anurag Kashyap -
Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?
-- April Winchell -
I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.
-- Arjun Rampal -
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
-- Avery Brundage -
The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
-- Barry Diller -
The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
-- Bette Davis -
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
-- Bil Keane -
To do what you love and are passionate about is a dream come true, My life is consumed by music and entertainment— and it’s the best life I could ever hope for.
-- Blake Lewis -
I remember all the entertainment shows showing pictures of Nicole Scherzinger annnnd that racing driver she was hanging around with.
-- Bob Varsha -
NBC is excited about the investment in WWF Entertainment, .. The WWF is widely recognized as having created a leading brand and has done a remarkable job gathering large audiences in the coveted male demographics.
-- Bob Wright -
The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
-- Bobby Vinton -
I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.
-- Bonnie Jo Campbell -
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
-- Brian Lumley -
In a sense, the first (if not necessarily the prime) function of a novelist, of ANY artist, is to entertain. If the poem, painting, play or novel does not immediately engage one's surface interest then it has failed. Whatever else it may or may not be, art is also entertainment. Bad art fails to entertain. Good art does something in addition.
-- Brigid Brophy -
I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.
-- Bruce Sterling -
The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
-- C. Wright Mills -
My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.
-- Candace Cameron -
It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.
-- Candace Cameron -
Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids.
-- Carrie Donovan -
Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.
-- Catherine Austin Fitts -
YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.
-- Chad Hurley -
I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.
-- Charlie Worsham -
Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment
-- Chi McBride -
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.
-- Chris Cornell -
The world of entertainment is built for big money. It's not built for small-scale projects that sustain themselves.
-- Chris Gethard -
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
-- Christopher Isherwood -
Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.
-- Cliff Stearns -
Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.
-- Clifton Fadiman -
Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.
-- Connie Sellecca -
The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.
-- Dan Aykroyd -
The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.
-- Dan Glickman -
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.
-- Dan Glickman -
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.
-- Dave Barry -
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
-- David Antin -
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
-- David Antin -
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
-- David Antin -
I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.
-- David Boreanaz -
I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.
-- David Cross -
Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.
-- David Frum -
Beyond its entertainment value, 'Baywatch' has enriched and, in many cases, helped save lives. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to continue with a project which has had such a significance for so many.
-- David Hasselhoff -
Beyond its entertainment values, 'Baywatch' has enriched and in many cases helped save lives.
-- David Hasselhoff -
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
-- David Ogilvy -
There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.
-- David Spade -
Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death
-- Dean Cavanagh -
I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
-- Dennis Farina -
I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.
-- Diane Sawyer -
I've actually gotten so I don't associate television with entertainment very much.
-- Dick Cavett -
People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.
-- Dionne Warwick -
It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.
-- Dionne Warwick -
I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
-- Donal Logue -
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.
-- Donald Trump -
Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment and pleasure; it can help you get ahead, solve problems, spark the imagination of others. It can increase your knowledge and education. It can erase misunderstandings, and bring you closer to those you love.
-- Dorothy Sarnoff -
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
-- Douglas Coupland -
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.
-- Drew Curtis -
It's not meant to be entertaining. If you want entertainment, go to the pictures. This is serious!
-- Eamon -
Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.
-- Eartha Kitt -
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.
-- Eartha Kitt -
If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.
-- Edmund Waller -
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
-- Elia Kazan -
Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.
-- Elizabeth Olsen -
There's a standard formula for success in the entertainment medium, and that is: Beat it to death if it succeeds.
-- Ernie Kovacs -
The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that's not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.
-- Ethan Hawke -
...we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.
-- Francis Chan -
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
-- Frank Zappa -
Popular culture bombards us with examples of animals being humanized for all sorts of purposes, ranging from education to entertainment to satire to propaganda. Walt Disney, for example, made us forget that Mickey is a mouse, and Donald a duck. George Orwell laid a cover of human societal ills over a population of livestock.
-- Frans de Waal -
I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.
-- Gary Shteyngart -
I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn't choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug.
-- Gayle King -
A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.
-- George Ade -
It's a "keep your fingers crossed" business, the entertainment business.
-- George Carlin -
During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.
-- George Orwell -
There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.
-- George S. Kaufman -
I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.
-- George Strait -
All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.
-- George Thorogood -
If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.
-- Glen Duncan -
The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.
-- Gregory Hines -
Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important.
-- Gregory Peck -
I welcome viagogo's fresh approach to the entertainment industry and I look forward to helping them build more innovative partnerships in the future.
-- Guy Oseary -
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
-- Harriet Van Horne -
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.
-- Heather Donahue -
Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.
-- Herbert Marcuse -
I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.
-- Holt McCallany
