Best 689 quotes in «entertainment quotes» category

If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve.

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

I grew up in a poor family. I had to cut everyone's hair, because we didn't have money for entertainment.

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

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.

I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figure/part of this entertainment industry.

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.

I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

I'm not interested in entertainment.

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.

I'm signed to Atlantic through 300 Entertainment [Lyor Cohen's label]. That is my only contractual relationship.

If you look at the big entertainment industry and their pursuit of the bottom line profits in exchange for producing content and distributing that content and marketing that content to inappropriate audiences, that's a problem for me.

If you want change, it has to be generational. We have this unbelievable opportunity to make that change. Entertainment enables us to entice and educate mass audiences into a shift of consciousness.

I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career.

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

I had spent over 10 years in sports, and there's such a natural crossover between entertainment and sports. It's more common to have both of those in your arsenal.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

I have never fired anyone or kept anyone because of ratings or because of entertainment. I keep the people that I think are the best.

I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.

I hear you're losing weight again, Mary Jane. Do you ever wonder who you're losing it for?

I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.

I just don't feel like - I've never felt like - part of the entertainment industry. I still just feel like I'm trying to work my way in. And that's weird.

I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it.

I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.

I'll come back to New York. I think I'll start focusing in more on the entertainment business. I have been doing some of that already, all kinds of monkey business. But I'm all over the place, literally.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

I love comics, very much, and I love being alone, but I also love the other part. I love actors, and I love filmed entertainment, and that is not something I plan to turn my back on.

I love conspiracy theories. I used to just live on it. You know it's all hype and garbage, but you're still really paranoid afterwards. It's fun entertainment.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

Imagine a crime series in which, every week, there is a white suspect and a black suspect. And every week, lo and behold, the black one turns out to have done it. Unpardonable, of course. And my point is that you could not defend it by saying: "But it's only fiction, only entertainment.

I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.

I'm a movie star. Can I talk to my entertainment lawyer?

I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.

I'm in the entertainment business, where you're only as good as your last show.

I never believe anything in the world of entertainment until it actually happens and the check clears the bank.

In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.

Information is now a commodity that can be bought and sold, or used as a form of entertainment, or worn like a garment to enhance one's status. It comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it.

In every other aspect of their life, we have entertainment that is crafted almost to an individual. So they expect that from stand-up as well.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.