Entertainment Quotes

Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.

I think a lot of food shows, especially when we started 'Good Eats' back in the late '90s, they were still really about food. 'Good Eats' isn't about food, it's about entertainment. If, however, we can virally infect you with knowledge or interest, then all the better.

Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.

I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

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

I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.

There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.

Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.

The entertainment business is not the be-all and end-all for me.

I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.

I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.

I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan.

We have a unique opportunity as Disney because it really is the only true global entertainment brand.

People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.