Best 689 quotes in «entertainment quotes» category

--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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All reading for pleasure is entertainment.

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.

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

All work and no plagiarism makes a dull speech.

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

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

Any comedic entertainment is better when you get high.

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

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

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

A rebel without a clue.

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

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

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.

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

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.

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.

A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'

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.

At the end of the day, it's nice to walk away from a set knowing that you're doing a movie that is not just for money and is not just pure entertainment.

Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody.

Beyond Brookledge may be the most incredible weekend of entertainment I've experienced in my life.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

Being rich and famous seems to have its ups and downs. That's the price you pay for being troubadours and clowns.

Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. As far as an amiable disposition and powers of entertainment make you so, it is a happiness; but if there is one grain of plausibility, it is poison.

Beyond its entertainment value, 'Baywatch' has enriched and, in many cases, helped save lives. I'm looking forward to the opportunity to continue with a project which has had such a significance for so many.

Bind to you friends of your own kind, friends who will encourage you, stand with you, live as you desire to live, who will enjoy the same kind of entertainment, and who will resist the evil that you determine to resist.

Beats is inherently different: the company is a consumer electronics company but also a media company; a packaged goods company but also an entertainment company.

Beyond its entertainment values, 'Baywatch' has enriched and in many cases helped save lives.

Bob Hope was an entertainment colossus, shrewd and influential well beyond show business. Richard Zoglin's biography captures it all--the public and private Hope.