Entertainment Quotes

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.

I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category.

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.

I think the race situation is getting better as far as people respecting each other goes. I think the race situation with entertainment is not that much better.

I think there's always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don't expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard.

Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

The movie industry is committed to working with the technology sector to find innovative new ways to deliver entertainment to consumers.

A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.

Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.

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.

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.

It is frustrating to be a Black woman in the entertainment industry.

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

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.

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.