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Entertainment Quotes
"An audience can really lift you right up off the stage."
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"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."
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"Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union."
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"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."
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"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."
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"That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment."
50
"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."
50
"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."
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"Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad."
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"The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment."
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"Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality."
47
"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."
46
"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."
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"I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46."
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"Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?"
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"You think about taking audiences on a journey."
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"It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else."
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"Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town."
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"Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear."
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"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."
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"After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley."
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"I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry."
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"There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge."
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"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."
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"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."
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"There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all."
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"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."
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"So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived."
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"They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable."
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"It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary."
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"I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports."
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"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."
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"Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously."
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"We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties."
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"My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"
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"Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody."
38
"I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly."
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"Achilles was like a rock star of his day so it made sense to have Brad Pitt playing him."
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"Walt Disney was my great hero."
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"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."
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"There are certainly laws and elements that make a film more accessible to mainstream audiences. If you've got Tom Cruise as a strongman, I'm sure it would have larger audiences, but it wouldn't have the same substance."
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"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."
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"When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference."
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