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Entertainment Quotes
"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."
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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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"Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union."
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"The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment."
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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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"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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"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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"After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley."
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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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"I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports."
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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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"You think about taking audiences on a journey."
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"They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable."
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"Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear."
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"It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary."
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"Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad."
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"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."
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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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"I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry."
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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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"Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived."
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"Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town."
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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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"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."
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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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"We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties."
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"There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge."
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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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"There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all."
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"Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?"
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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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"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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"'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."
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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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"Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong."
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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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"Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show."
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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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