Best 689 quotes in «entertainment quotes» category

He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.

He that would travel for the entertainment of others should remember that the great object of remark is human life.

Human entertainment will have moved on to something new. Then the ultimate challenge for us is, can we figure out what that new form of entertainment is?

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.

I am happy to have success in the entertainment biz, but the root of my happiness comes from my neighborhood, NYC.

I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future.

I believe many of us are overnourished on entertainment junk food and undernourished on the bread of life.

I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.

I cannot imagine my life without horses. They have been my teachers, my friends, my business partners and my entertainment.

I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.

I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened.

I could give a flying crap about the political process. We're an entertainment company.

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

I don't pretend to know anything about art. I make pictures for entertainment, and then the professors tell me what they mean.

I do everything one at a time, one day at a time. It's the only way I can do all what I want. I stopped watching [most of] the news and entertainment shows. I think it's helped me to stay a little clearer. Do I need to know what Kevin Federline is doing? And I don't sleep a lot. I'm always connected to [my work].

I don't think there's anything Craig Ferguson could say that would make me laugh. Ad-libbing is not the same as entertainment.

I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it's something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.

I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.

I dont have ulcers, I give them

I feel like my dating life has become a national pastime, and Im not comfortable providing that entertainment anymore.

I feel honored to be a part of something that provided people with entertainment and that inspired conversations. I feel very, very fortunate.

I feel like I am in turbo mode as a student of entertainment.

If I think of the audience too much, then I'm going to start catering to them...and it turns into entertainment. And I've got time for entertainment; I'm just not at all that interested in doing it myself. I'd rather go for some pretty raw expression.

If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

I feel like the Church should have the most amazing entertainment and the best music, because we know the author and the source of music and entertainment, which is our Father.

If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.

If the ingredients for happiness are not within a person, no material success or entertainment or platinum credit cards can make that person smile.

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 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.

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

If the soul be happily disposed, every thing becomes capable of affording entertainment, and distress will almost want a name.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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.