Entertainment Quotes · Page 41

Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.

— Leonard Rossiter

I have always been a frustrated nightclub performer. I think that would be the most exciting form of entertainment.

— Mike Connors

I've been able to watch and to weather a lot of different periods in entertainment, politics and life.

— Marilyn Manson

A true fad has little utility beyond its entertainment value. Think of the Mood Ring, the Pet Rock, the Slinky, Silly Putty.

— Ken Hakuta

Cable news is nothing more than entertainment, except for the International version of CNN and perhaps the BBC.

— Sam Seder

Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

— Ambrose Bierce

Those days she was just a beautiful girl, now she's framed and hung up.

— Elvis Costello

Most of the time he [Marlon Brando] sounds like he has a mouth full of toilet paper.

— Rex Reed

I had very much wanted to be the very first black female editor-in-chief of 'Vogue.' Barring that, I wanted to work at…

— Courtney A. Kemp

A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your…

— Chris Carmack

The fans of our industry are extremely savvy. At the end of the day, they understand the business is a work. It's…

— Dwayne Johnson

Now you're selling out, the devil sold a dream and you bought it without thinking about. How the beast will decrease the…

— Kool Moe Dee

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of…

— Walt Disney

They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some…

— Aml Ameen

I know that being in the entertainment business... my first son, I had to sacrifice being away, being on tour a lot…

— Taboo

Star Wars is not entertainment. Star Wars is George Lucas masturbating to a picture of Joseph Campbell and conning billions of people…

— John Scalzi

The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is…

— John Dos Passos

My first manager chose the name Engelbert Humperdinck for me. My real name is Arnold George Dorsey. It didn't really quite hit…

— Engelbert Humperdinck

The gospel of cheerfulness, I had almost said the gospel of amusement, is preached by people who lack experience to people who…

— Agnes Repplier

It's tough because a lot of my friends in normal life, a lot of my friends in the entertainment business, and a…

— Hulk Hogan

An entertainment is something which distracts us or diverts us from the routine of daily life. It makes us for the time…

— Herbert Read

Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its…

— Herbert Hoover

I was a little tomboy, growing up, but we had to go to the library every weekend if we wanted some form…

— Isabela Moner

Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices…

— Marcus Buckingham

You beefed cause you heard that I was cursing in my raps, 86, still you wanna run and get the straps.

— LL Cool J

The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'

— Richard Dawkins

One thing about the entertainment industry - it's not something that people need to survive.

— Satoru Iwata

And entertainment has nothing to do with reality. Entertainment is antithetical to reality.

— Michael Crichton

“...the real junk food is what Frank Lloyd Wright called light entertainment - bubblegum for the eye ...”

— John Geddes

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

— Molly Ivins

“Ah! good Sir! no Whores before Dinner, I beseech you." [ Love's Last Shift ]”

— Colley Cibber

Cheryl Ladd Special - One-hour long, one thought show of jigglevision.

— Edwin Diamond

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

— Anthony Jeselnik

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

— John Travolta

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

— Wyclef Jean

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

We have an enormous vision for a new category for human interaction and, ultimately, immersive entertainment.

— David Baszucki

To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy…

— Philip Kaufman

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

— Wim Wenders

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

— Massimiliano Gioni