Entertainment Quotes

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it's also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past - whether it's good or bad.

Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging so far behind social changes in the United States. And why has there never been an all-black daytime network soap? It would probably blow the white soaps off the map.

In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

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

Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.

E.T.' and 'Extra,' they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. 'Access Hollywood' is really good entertainment news. It's not dirty, and we don't get cheap.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

Whether you think a film will affect society or it's plain entertainment, it's all excellent, it's all noble.

I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!

It's been hard in entertainment as a 45-year-old woman to find jobs. They get fewer and far between if you're older, unless you're one of the few lucky ones who work constantly, like Meryl Streep.

I work hard for the audience. It's entertainment. I don't need validation.

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

I love visiting LA. It's an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America's entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it's not the sort of place I'd want to live.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.