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Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

On prime time entertainment television, scientists are most at risk. Ten percent of scientists featured in prime-time entertainment programming get killed, and five percent kill someone. No other occupational group is more likely to kill or be killed.

Other things equal, a life filled with complex flow activities is more worth living than one spent consuming passive entertainment.

Paradigms of Republican vs. Democrat or Conservative vs. Progressive have been designed for obfuscation and entertainment.

Paramount Pictures is a perfect partner for Electric Entertainment, with the most stable group of executives in Hollywood and unparalleled global promotion and distribution reach.

Part of the Disney success is our ability to create a believable world of dreams that appeals to all age groups. The kind of entertainment we create is meant to appeal to every member of the family.

People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.

People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them.

People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures.

People need to understand that hip-hop that has gun talk is just for entertainment; similar to if you were watching a movie.

People tend to turn to the type of entertainment that has an escapism quality.

Professional football is a job and it's in the entertainment business.

Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

Right now I'm the greatest. I don't say this through vanity. It's just that the rest are so bad.

Rock 'n' roll is just entertainment, and the kids who like to identify their youthful high spirits with a solid beat are thus possibly avoiding other pursuits that could be harmful to them.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Rhyme written in graffiti xeroxed on blueprints, students influenced are now a nuisance.

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp.

Social media is a performance like any other form of entertainment, and acknowledging that is important.

Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

Stand-up comedy in the end, unlike the rest of the entertainment industry, is a meritocracy. There's a certain level of undeniability you can work toward.

Speaking for the one field which I feel definitely qualified to comment on, I fully believe the animated picture will emerge as one of the greatest mediums, not only of entertainment but also of education.

Super confident people with no problems and great marriages and great parenting are not good entertainment.

Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist.

Such reproductions may not interest the reader; but after all, this is my autobiography, not his; he is under no obligation to read further in it; he was under none to begin. A modest or inhibited autobiography is written without entertainment to the writer and read with distrust by the reader.

Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that's turned into entertainment.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Television is a very writer-driven business, and it's one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn't have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.

That's how it always is in the entertainment industry, your feet are always treading Jello.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

The art of longing's over, and it's never coming back.

The arts are not for the privileged few, but for the many. Their place is not on the periphery of daily life, but at its center. They should function not merely as another form of entertainment but, rather, should contribute significantly to our well being and happiness.

The blacklist against people in the entertainment industry that show up for [Donald] Trump is worse than that blacklist you heard of in Hollywood back in the forties and fifties.

The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Theatres are built because they were the boards for entertainment.

The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky—as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.