I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.
~By Alan Vega ~
There is an atmosphere about the picture theatre that speaks of entertainment and relaxation. The charming surroundings, good music, and the fact that each visitor is determined to enjoy a few hours of holiday all exert an influence on the mind.
~By Ivor Novello ~
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
~By Neil Simon ~
In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.
~By David Cassidy ~
I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I think you can expect Sony, in the case of PSP specifically, to deliver a technology that is going to reinvent and change handheld entertainment, and take it to a brand new level.
~By Ian Jackson ~
The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.
~By Connie Mack ~
Age is very important in the entertainment industry.
~By Rajendra Prasad ~
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
~By Milton Friedman ~
There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.
~By David Spade ~
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
~By Dean Koontz ~
Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.
~By Terry Brooks ~
In our show you have to pay attention and know what happened before. I think it's very intelligent entertainment. It makes demands of viewers that a lot of shows don't.
~By Victor Garber ~
I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.
~By Richard King ~
I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.
~By Clyde Tombaugh ~
We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
~By Paul Prudhomme ~
Whereas money is a means to an end for a filmmaker, to the corporate mind money is the end. Right now, I think independent film is very confused, because there's excess pressure in the marketplace for entertainment to pay off.
~By Robert Redford ~
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
~By Tom Clancy ~
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
~By Brian Lumley ~
I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.
~By Rob Zombie ~
Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour.
~By Ann Wilson ~
The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
~By Leon Askin ~
Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.
~By Mike Myers ~
You really have to soak up the culture of the people to get it right. If you're making a fiction film, it's entertainment, but you want it to be as real as possible.
~By Robert Duvall ~
I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.
~By Martin Yan ~
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.
~By John Carmack ~
I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
~By Donal Logue ~
Business is difficult. But it could be approached two ways: Seriously, or with the same way you're doing your job, with entertainment aspect, with pleasure, with fun. And we decided to try to make it as fun that we do our creativity.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
~By David Ogilvy ~
Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
~By Gary Gygax ~
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.
~By Geena Davis ~
I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.
~By Mako ~
When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.
~By Nina Blackwood ~
To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.
~By Philip Kaufman ~
Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
~By Lynn Swann ~
Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.
~By Steig Larsson ~
I'm very lucky to work in so many different arenas of the entertainment industry and I do enjoy them all, but making music - original music - in the studio or live onstage is definitely my favorite thing to do.
~By Bill Mumy ~
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.
~By David Cross ~
And being as I'm somebody who loves movies like The Machinist, I also love going along to big mass entertainment movies. I get in the mood for all kinds of movies, and so I like to try each of them.
~By Christian Bale ~
The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
I learned a long time ago: You're in the entertainment business. You're not in the reality business. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other.
~By Dennis Farina ~
When we, through our educational culture, through the media, through the entertainment culture, give our children the impression that human beings cannot control their passions, we are telling them, in effect, that human beings cannot be trusted with freedom.
~By Alan Keyes ~
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
~By Leo Kottke ~
Whether you've done anything wrong or not people will write whatever they want, so it's just a matter of not reading it, not buying into it, and hopefully the people that do read it realise that it's just fictional stories for entertainment.
~By Holly Valance ~
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture."
~By John Cage ~
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.
~By T. S. Eliot ~
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.
~By David Antin ~
Today's terrorists are pursuing a distinct route. They are increasingly attacking civilians in symbolic targets, such as those of economic importance, or venues of bustling life like public transportation or entertainment, like nightclubs.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
~By Vince McMahon ~
I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sinister and bizarre. Don't blame me! The bastards drove me to it! They all backed off after that!
~By Robert Crumb ~
It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.
~By Alice Cooper ~
Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.
~By Walt Disney ~
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.
~By Pam Grier ~
I think the Internet's been a tremendous tool in terms of breaking down the power structure of information and entertainment, particularly at a time when so much information and entertainment were in the hands of so few people, with multinationals owning everything.
~By Dave Foley ~
Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.
~By Michael Medved ~
In this business, you just never know from day to day. It's one reason I held off getting too involved in entertainment. I like being able to plan, I like to know what I'm going to be doing.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.
~By Paul Hogan ~
Television is much better crafted today then in the 70s. The content is less positive but I'm one of those that feel our entertainment reflects our world, it's not a driver - art imitates life.
~By Christopher Knight ~
We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage.
~By Ivor Novello ~
I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.
~By Paul Hogan ~
For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.
~By David Duchovny ~
Everything is entertainment; criticism is now entertainment and it seems that the French directors have woken up one day and suddenly realised that they were not backed up any more.
~By Wim Wenders ~
When entertainment was begun, during the Depression, it was supposed to take people's minds off reality. People could sing, dance, act or do anything. It was the type of entertainment that was available.
~By Tina Yothers ~
Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
~By Allan Bloom ~
People magazine had been around for a short period of time, but nobody had thought about putting entertainment news on a nightly basis on television.
~By Mary Hart ~
I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music.
~By Bobby Vinton ~
Multinational corporations do control. They control the politicians. They control the media. They control the pattern of consumption, entertainment, thinking. They're destroying the planet and laying the foundation for violent outbursts and racial division.
~By Jerry Brown ~
Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.
~By Peter Garrett ~
The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
~By Ivor Novello ~
Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody.
~By Puff Daddy ~
For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.
~By Meat Loaf ~
If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree.
~By Ethan Embry ~
Crime stories are, as you know, one of the most popular forms of entertainment that exist. If you then try to have something to say... that I have, of course.
~By Steig Larsson ~
You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College.
~By Dora Russell ~
So our films had a lot more to them than entertainment value, and I'm glad that a lot of people recognize that now. People realize now the value of them as educational.
~By Ray Harryhausen ~
If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.
~By Nick Cannon ~
You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.
~By Ben Affleck ~
Music is escapism, it's entertainment.
~By Andy Taylor ~
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
~By Vincente Minnelli ~
It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
Politics has become entertainment.
~By Joe Eszterhas ~
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.
~By Mary Wortley ~
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
~By Elia Kazan ~
I mean, certainly it's the single biggest event, I think, in terms of popular entertainment, or art even, if you say that, of the 20th Century. It's been film. It's the 20th Century's real art form.
~By Sydney Pollack ~
I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category.
~By Lionel Stander ~
I can pretty much call anyone, whether at the White House, in a company or in the media. I have access, because of the silliness of the entertainment world and how people react to it. It gave me an enormous opportunity to do anything I really want to.
~By Andrew Shue ~
I don't want to be someone's entertainment.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
~By Yancy Butler ~
Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.
~By Wim Wenders ~
The cinema is an institution nowadays, with its roots sunk deep in the hearts of the millions of people who find enjoyment and entertainment in going to the pictures.
~By Ivor Novello ~
I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.
~By David Boreanaz ~
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