Entertainment Quotes · Page 26

The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious.

— Quincy Jones

What we do is entertainment. We entertain people. Sometimes we inspire people, but sometimes we are just a way to fill their…

— Daniel Bryan

Howard Beale is processed, instant God, and right now it looks like he might just go over bigger than Mary Tyler Moore.

— Paddy Chayefsky

Beyond its entertainment values, 'Baywatch' has enriched and in many cases helped save lives.

— David Hasselhoff

I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

— David Boreanaz

NXT is the part of the WWE that is about competition. It's not sports entertainment, it's the pro wrestling side and that's…

— William Regal

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

— Jesse Ventura

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

— David Antin

Academic scientists aren't generally interested in books for the public. So when one comes out, the authors can't expect much praise from…

— Greg Graffin

There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for…

— Frank Herbert

I used to fight every week. Me and my friends used to fight each other, bare knuckle, but then we would be…

— Tyron Woodley

I heard some famous people had an anniversary, five long years together, it was Hollywood history. Now my grandma and grandpa never…

— Clay Walker

'Bunk' is a comedy game show where, each week, three of my favorite comedians compete in a series of bizarre and meaningless…

— Kurt Braunohler

The old forms of entertainment are not extinct. Live performances are the pinnacle. If you can something that people want to see…

— Bette Midler

Inspiration without action is really entertainment. So while something can be very inspiring it is not transformative until you actually do something…

— Mary Morrissey

Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he…

— Henry David Thoreau

Before we invented civilization our ancestors lived mainly in the open out under the sky. Before we devised artificial lights and atmospheric…

— Carl Sagan

Human cruelty knows no limits and that one needs immense courage and a will of iron to help others understand that animals…

— Brigitte Bardot

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

I know I play a lot of jocks, but I'm actually a really big board game and video game nerd. It's one…

— Ross Butler

Are we so desperate for entertainment that we will fall for a Trickless magician?? Saw a woman in half. Pull a rabbit…

— Chris Rock

I tend to believe that computers are drawing kids -- and adults -- away from reading purely because they provide an alternative,…

— Tim Lebbon

I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow…

— Philip Yancey

There has been a marvelous joyous carnival of mourning for Edith Piaf and Jean Coctaeau, and it was real! They died as…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.

— Wil Wheaton

Who wanna be next? While you a dead superstar, the record company still cashin' checks.

— Master P

There is only one excuse for a speaker's asking the attention of his audience: he must have either truth or entertainment for…

— Dale Carnegie

The first video that made me want to get into entertainment was Janet Jackson's 'That's The Way Love Goes.'

— Erica Mena

She'd like to model or maybe act or star in a magazine. Before she signs any big contracts, she better learn how…

— Thomas Dolby

Coming to YG entertainment as a trainee was one of the most challenging yet most life changing periods of my life.

— Rose

“To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

— Fiona Apple

I would like to expand my brand to include destinations in Vegas and also become an entertainment news correspondent.

— Holly Madison

I don't think it's an unnatural thing at all for my collaborations or projects to be seen as art but entertainment at…

— Takashi Murakami

Good heavens, television is something you appear on; you don't watch.

— Noel Coward

I've always admired Bruce Lee for his trailblazing efforts opening doors for Asians in entertainment and beyond.

— Justin Lin

You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment.

— Anne Sebba

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

— Avery Brundage

David Dhawan is the scientist of entertainment and has given me the opportunity over the last 20 years to work in several films.

— Rajpal Yadav

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer