Entertainment Quotes

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

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 surprising that so much poetry is written.

In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

I don't understand why, in entertainment, the hours are as long as they are. It seems like everything takes forever, and no one can tell you why exactly.

I make my films because I'm affected by a situation, by something that makes me want to reflect on it, that lends itself to an artistic reflection. I always aim to look directly at what I'm dealing with. I think it's a task of dramatic art to confront us with things that in the entertainment industry are usually swept under the rug.

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.

When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.

Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment.

The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.

I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

I'm so excited and honored to be part of 'Entertainment Tonight!' 'E.T.' was the show that started all the entertainment news, so I couldn't be more thrilled.

I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that 'This is going to be terrific' and 'This is the best thing I've ever done' and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it's good or bad.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels.

It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.

Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

It's really fun to be in a film that's pure entertainment, that people want to go and see. I think, in the current climate, the state of things, people want escapism.