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Entertainment Quotes


"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."


"Actually, one of the TSA guys showed me the Entertainment Weekly with the poster from the original in it, which also mentioned they were doing a remake. Caught me totally by surprise."


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


"Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union."


"That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment."


"After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley."



"Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad."


"Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment."


"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."


"I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry."


"Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived."


"Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town."


"I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on."


"It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary."


"Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them."


"Walt Disney was my great hero."


"'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger."


"I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46."


"I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in."


"We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage."


"I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment."


"Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear."


"I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine."


"There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge."


"I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports."


"There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all."


"I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened."


"James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good."


"You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show."


"You think about taking audiences on a journey."


"Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment."


"We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties."


"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."


"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."


"If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree."


"Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality."


"In this state, the club was The Wizard of Oz made obvious: All the magic that went on here night after night, all the buzz and excitement, was really just a combination of electronics, booze, and chemicals, an illusion for the people who walked through the front doors, a fantasy that allowed them to be whatever they weren't in their day-to-day lives."


"Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?"


"So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater."


"Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him."


"I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad."


"Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie it will be, because the way movie folk think is different from the way writers think, and I distrust what isn't done my way. This is what I call a healthy paranoia."


"They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable."


"Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously."


"It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry."


"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."
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