Entertainment Quotes - Page 4

Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

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

The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.

...we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving God.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

When my dad was young he shot marbles. When I was young I played Marble Madness on my Nintendo Entertainment System.

To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits while watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.

The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at its center. They should function not merely as another form of entertainment but, rather, should contribute significantly to our well being and happiness.

Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

What is a company that believes in good, clean family entertainment doing making R-rated pictures.

It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends. We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside.

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, commerce, religion.

Beyond Brookledge may be the most incredible weekend of entertainment I've experienced in my life.

Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.