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Entertainment Quotes
"The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment."
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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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"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 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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"After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley."
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"Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived."
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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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"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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"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."
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"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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"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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"Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad."
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"I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad."
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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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"Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear."
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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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"When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out."
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"I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry."
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"It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best."
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"There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge."
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"It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. "The West Wing" isn't meant to be good for you."
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"Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?"
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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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"Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests."
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"You think about taking audiences on a journey."
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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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"Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously."
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"Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town."
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"Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining."
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"I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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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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"It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary."
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"Los Angeles has the greatest concentration of surviving movie palaces in the United States, yet most residents have never been inside one of them."
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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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"There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all."
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"Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality."
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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."
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"It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry."
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"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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"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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"You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show."
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"Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds of a certain idea or feed the mind with inspiration and courage. In short, healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction. This leads to not only an entertained viewer, but also an inspired soul. And that should be the purpose of film-making, and indeed the entire entertainment industry, rather than feeding the general population with garbage."
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