Entertainment Quotes · Page 50

If there's any literary ability in a feller, getting fired out of a good government job will bring it out.

— Kin Hubbard

There was laughter in the back of the theater, leading to the belief that someone was telling jokes back there.

— George S. Kaufman

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

— Alanis Morissette

'Pleasure' is a word I think about a lot, as opposed to 'entertainment.' They are very, very different.

— Meg Wolitzer

Can't wait to date a supermodel, can't wait to sue my Dad. Can't wait to wreck a Ferrari, on the way to…

— Brad Paisley

I realized, because I've been doing these very small, character-driven movies, that this is entertainment. This is so much fun.

— Rosemarie DeWitt

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

— Cecil B. DeMille

There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on…

— Glen Campbell

We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are…

— James Gleick

I can be multi-cultural, multi-lingual, work a physical style, push forward entertaining storylines, and be the more worldly entertainment that the company…

— Kenny Omega

All kinds of gambling, from bingo to baccarat, are benign entertainment for most people, dangerously addictive to a few, and capable of…

— Jacob Weisberg

When I arrive in Los Angeles in the entertainment community, and I use implements like a shovel and a hammer, our society…

— Nick Offerman

Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids…

— Jon Scieszka

Now we're doing it for different reasons. We're doing it to bring back the families to the game, people who love the…

— Bobby Hull

I would say that, of course, it is wrong to objectify women. But at the same time, entertainment should not be inter-mingled…

— Malaika Arora Khan

I think horror films in the past maybe touched on social themes having to do with whatever era in which they were…

— Brooke Nevin

A democracy survives when its citizens have access to trustworthy and impartial sources of information, when it can discern lies from truth.…

— Chris Hedges

'Knowing' is one of those movies where you're going to get the spectacle, and you're going to have the entertainment in the…

— Nicolas Cage

Hillary [Clinton] is hitting me with tremendous commercials. Some of it's said in entertainment. Some of it's said - somebody who's been…

— Donald Trump

Truth is not obtained cheaply. It demands much time given to prayer and study of the Scriptures, followed by practical application in…

— Derek Prince

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a…

— Neil Gaiman

The ranks of educated professional swelled as more Americans went to college and more Americans sort of adopted a more cosmopolitan lifestyle…

— George Packer

Americans are in need of very objective information, and sometimes it's easier to absorb the message through entertainment and through a great…

— Nia Long

Filmmaking is essentially about entertainment, but it's amazing to realize that it has this other muscle that could actually help. Do you…

— Ken Burns

When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.

— Avril Lavigne

Anyone who works in the entertainment industry knows that our jobs aren't taken seriously.

— Carrie Hope Fletcher

They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable.

— Tommy Chong

The artists and creative people are not in a position to teach someone. Nobody wants to be taught through entertainment.

— Alok Nath

Technology people have as much interest in protecting patents as the entertainment industry.

— Ted Waitt

“With the right perspective - family life provides unlimited entertainment.”

— Bert McCoy

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

— Terry Teachout

Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.

— Jada Pinkett Smith

I was like a fat, sweaty kid growing up in Queens who just was plopped down in front of 'Entertainment Tonight' by…

— Billy Eichner

Nascar would be so much more entertaining if they threw banana peels and turtle shells.

— Anonymous

Football should and has to remain beautiful - entertainment, a celebration for everyone.

— Jerome Boateng

The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

— George Ade

“I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.”

— Pushpa Rana

Things that matter are a great story, entertainment, how the lead part moves the story forward and who the directors are.

— Tahir Raj Bhasin

I will say it is funny that writing a song about not wanting to entertain people is what got me a career…

— Lucy Dacus

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It's fairly cheap entertainment; it's classic escapism.

— John Lasseter