Entertaining Quotes · Page 23

My films ought to be judged on whether they're entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I'm…

— Sydney Pollack

Performers like to perform, and there's certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work…

— Kiki Dee

'I Spy' represents the absence of the tension of the black man or black woman or anyone of that color walking in,…

— Bill Cosby

To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may…

— John Drinkwater

I'd rather make an interesting film that gets people talking, that maybe some people hate, than make the kind of 'entertaining' film…

— Emily Browning

Rian Johnson's 'Looper' is inventive, entertaining, and thought-provoking in every way a movie can be. It is in fact the kind of…

— Jason Reitman

Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching…

— Bobby Hull

I don't know what else I would do. I love entertaining people, I love communicating, I love an audience. I'm a real…

— Suzi Quatro

When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know…

— Jakob Dylan

I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in,…

— Don Ho

Each one is different. Each project is different. Some are silly, some are not. Some are more realistic, some are not. Some…

— Colin Hanks

That's one thing about my shows. I tell people, I'm not a comedian, I'm just a really funny reporter. I put my…

— Gabriel Iglesias

When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will…

— Muriel Barbery

For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it's boring it's boring,…

— Jack Black

I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need…

— Amy Weber

It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film.…

— Jonathan Demme

I see myself as attempting to break ground. I definitely am trying to create my own genre here... I'm attempting to tell…

— Ben Mezrich

One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We…

— Rob Sheffield

Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time…

— Liza Minnelli

What I like about Broadway is that you are still entertaining. You're standing in front of an audience every night and the…

— Ricky Martin

You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live…

— Dean Koontz

Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing,…

— John Tesh

I try to make a film that's very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest…

— Terry Zwigoff

If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that…

— Laura Wasser

It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up.…

— Owen Hart

What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the…

— Bobby Hull

R&b, poetry, I'd like to do everything. But I'm an entertainer and entertaining is not just music. I can do comedy; I'm…

— Keak da Sneak

I can't watch a [Floyd] Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting. I used to watch boxing in the [Michael] Tyson era…

— Usain Bolt

Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For…

— Cory Trepanier

One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what…

— Brian Eno

Ric Flair is one of the most entertaining guys to sit down with and by entertaining I don't mean he has catchy…

— John Cena

Manga is a very entertaining cultural form, made of many totally different genres. Don’t restrict yourself with a single style of manga.…

— Hiromu Arakawa

I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I…

— Harvey Weinstein

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity,…

— Tariq Ramadan

My plan was I just knew, I think the first time I was in a high school play, and I liked the…

— David Hedison

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do.…

— Vaclav Havel

I never tried to make a cartoon for a certain age bracket. I just tried to make entertaining pictures. That's why they…

— Walter Lantz

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful…

— Stephanie S. Tolan

I was recently asked about the business side of 'Biggest Loser,' but as long as we entertain people, we can keep coming…

— Alison Sweeney