Best 689 quotes in «entertainment quotes» category

When mind stuck, entertain your heart.

When the business people get done with the arts, all that’s left will be entertainment.

When you are in entertainment business, you can’t be you until you are in off-screen. You have to smile all the time and act like what they want from you. And you have to give them what they want from you. When entertaining people, you are their property. But you have to influence others when you are entertaining your fans.

Work hard in Silence, Let success make the noise.

Women who are not boring have realized that men do not like sex as much as it is generally believed.

Where other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something completely new under the sun, it clearly has moved beyond the stage of just entertaining lives to that of informing and empowering lives.

Why is is that all people in Hollywood think, oh short, black and tattoos, ohhh he's in the music industry? No motherfucker, I'm an Author.

You are not trapped in the box forever," Myrnin said, "as you well know. But I still need you, so you will simply have to stop your endless wailing and get on with things. If you want an escape, research your way out." "Or you'll what?" Myrnin's eyes snapped open, and he bared his fangs - not that he could bite the computer. It was just a reaction of frustration, Claire thought. "Or I'll disconnect your puzzle sets," he said, "and you can read the works of Bulwer-Lytton for entertainment for the next twenty years before I take pity on you.

You are my life now.

Yet entertainment--as I define it, pleasure and all--remains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as if we have bridged, the gulf of consciousness that separates each of us from everybody else. The best response to those who would cheapen and exploit it is not to disparage or repudiate but to reclaim entertainment as a job fit for artists and for audiences, a two-way exchange of attention, experience, and the universal hunger for connection.

You cannot enjoy true love in relationship if you don't add honest flavours to it. You can genuinely maintain what you can sincerely entertain!

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

--You're rather well read for a working-class girl, she said with her back to me. --Really? I've found that all my well-read friends are from the working class. --Oh my. Why do you think that is? The purity of poverty? --No. It's just that reading is the cheapest form of entertainment. --Sex is the cheapest form of entertainment. --Not in this house.

Acting: An art which consists of keeping the audience from coughing.

You don’t need to travel far to make people happy. When you make people nearer to you happy, people farther away from you will surely come. Keep doing it!

A certain columnist has been banned from all Shubert openings. Now he can wait three days and go to their closings.

Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.

All caught up in the trends, well the truth began to bend.

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.

A kid asked me for advise about getting into entertainment? I said you better know how to be happy being broke!

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained.

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

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.

A lot of, a big problems that people have nowadays is that they can't stand moments of no stimulation in their life so they're constantly lurking, looking for entertainment, video games.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

Americans are used to being pandered to and spoon-fed everything. In a culture that needs caffeine-free cherry chocolate diet Coke, you'd best deliver information with entertainment.

A lot of people find themselves in the entertainment business - or perhaps society steers them toward it - because they're beautiful.

A movie studio is the best toy a boy ever had.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

And finally comes culture, which is entertainment, relaxation, transport out of the pain of living.

And yes, it is harder to make movies because budgets are getting smaller, and the companies stocks are down. The only good news on the horizon is that box office has been up by something like 23% from last year, which is great for us. It's still the cheapest form of entertainment.

And as I reinvent myself and I'm constantly curious about everything, I can't wait to see what's around the corner in newfound art and entertainment and exploration.

An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

A rebel without a clue.

Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.

Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

Any comedic entertainment is better when you get high.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

Art in the United States is a kind of visual entertainment focusing on expected narratives.

Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and me.

Artists reach areas far beyond the reach of politicians. Art, especially entertainment and music, is understood by everybody, and it lifts the spirits and the morale of those who hear it.

As an actor, I travel around a lot and live in a lot of hotels, and many times I've been in a town where the only entertainment to be had is what you find in the hotel bar or lobby.

As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes.

At a young age I always had an entrepreneurial spirit. So I'm trying to develop things on my own, too, and there are a couple things that have absolutely nothing to do with the entertainment business that I'm trying to tackle. We'll just sort of see.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.