Best 689 quotes in «entertainment quotes» category

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.

Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments.

Oblivion is something unique, an entertainment experience unlike anything I had seen before. I decided this was a project I really wanted to work on creatively, and I hope fans of the game enjoy the results.

None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

Now my tapestry's unraveling.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations.

One of the reasons for The Walt Disney Company's long- term success is really the first of Dr. Deming's famous points, "create constancy of purpose." In his professional career, Walt's major passion was to provide the finest in family entertainment. For the most part, for nearly a century, the Company has stayed true to that legacy, and has set the standard for the entire entertainment industry.

One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record.

One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.

One of the things that's funniest about the entertainment industry and comedy is that people go 'Oh, you're great, but I don't know what to do with you.' The great thing about the Internet is that nobody has to figure out what to do with you. You can figure out what to do with you, and you can say, 'I made this thing, and I'm going to put it out, and now if people want to come see me and buy things from me they can.'

One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

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.

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

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.

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

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.

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

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.

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.