Entertainment Quotes

1237 Entertainment quotes by 921 unique authors

Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me. — Paige Bradley
As a theatrical troupe, the Muppets haven't exactly been AWOL these past dozen years; the gang rocked YouTube in 2009 with their kick-ass rendition of… — Lisa Schwarzbaum
I love The Miz. His approach to his job is second to none; it's extremely important to him that he prepares on a daily basis.… — Alex Riley
Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare… — Laura Ingraham
In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not… — Serj Tankian
I feel like skateboarding is as much of a sport as a lifestyle, and an art form, so there's so much that that transcends in… — Tony Hawk
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be… — Henry David Thoreau
[A]ny notion of the serious life of leisure, as well as men's taste and capacity to live it, had disappeared. Leisure became entertainment. — Allan Bloom
The charm of television entertainment is its ability to bridge the chasm between dinner and bedtime without mental distraction. — Russell Baker
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th… — Sydney Pollack
The essence of idolatry is the entertainment of thoughts about God that are unworthy of Him. The heaviest obligation lying upon the Christian Church today… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Never did I think that I became family entertainment. — Jimmy Buffett
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it… — George Santayana
In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym… — Ben Hecht
The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's Look at me, Ma! It's acceptance, you know -- Look at me,… — Lenny Bruce
The idea of taking what people call the 'entertainment culture' as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea. — Neil Postman
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education,… — Neil Postman
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. — David Mamet
Journalism is the entertainment business. — Frank Herbert
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is… — Mark Strand
In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education. — Denis Diderot
Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Entertainment has to come hand in hand with a little bit of medicine. — David Fincher
I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get… — Aaron Levie
The best thing I ever learned from my dad was he knew he wasn't the best of singers, but he always knew he was a… — Dean Norris

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