It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
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.
~By Beau Bridges ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.
~By Paul Hogan ~
I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.
~By Sean Lennon ~
I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
~By Donal Logue ~
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 ~
It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. "The West Wing" isn't meant to be good for you.
~By Aaron Sorkin ~
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
~By Rita Mae Brown ~
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 ~
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 ~
In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
~By Neil Simon ~
Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.
~By Walt Disney ~
I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.
~By Bruce Sterling ~
News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.
~By Jessica Savitch ~
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
~By Terry Brooks ~
Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody.
~By Puff Daddy ~
I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.
~By Uwe Boll ~
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 ~
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 ~
This is government. There is no entertainment.
~By Judy Davis ~
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
~By Brian Lumley ~
The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment.
~By Howard Dietz ~
Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
~By Garth Brooks ~
In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
~By Frank Zappa ~
I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.
~By Joe Flanigan ~
For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
~By Wim Wenders ~
Age is very important in the entertainment industry.
~By Rajendra Prasad ~
I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.
~By Delta Burke ~
If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.
~By John Le Carre ~
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 ~
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 ~
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
~By Tony Robbins ~
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 ~
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
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.
~By Mary Hart ~
I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.
~By Juliana Hatfield ~
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
~By Steve Martin ~
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 ~
Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.
~By Rob Glaser ~
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 ~
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
~By Vincente Minnelli ~
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 ~
I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.
~By Christopher Isherwood ~
All I have is my performance, I try to feed in the best of everything that I could possibly do into those 90 minutes and to make a live entertainment show out of it.
~By George Thorogood ~
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 ~
Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
~By Martin Kippenberger ~
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 ~
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 ~
When you look at what we spend on entertainment, whether it's on CDs, music, DVDs, there is so much money invested in that, people want to know a little more about the stars they're paying to see or hear.
~By Mary Hart ~
My brother Cody is 19. He wants to stay out of the limelight and become a lawyer. I want him to be an entertainment lawyer, so he can help me out!
~By Lindsay Lohan ~
We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.
~By Jerry Lawler ~
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 ~
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 ~
Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn).
~By John Podhoretz ~
We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment.
~By George Pataki ~
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 ~
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
~By Michael Eisner ~
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
I probably worked every single entertainment medium, including some that don't exist. I worked the circus, carnival, I had my own medicine show, I worked 18 years of radio.
~By Al Lewis ~
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 ~
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 ~
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
~By Gary L. Francione ~
I don't like to be entertaining. I don't like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.
~By Ryan Gosling ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.
~By Woody Harrelson ~
I'd like to see myself married with a child and hopefully still involved in the entertainment business as an actor who is also able to write a bit and direct some projects.
~By Fred Savage ~
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 ~
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
~By Richard Linklater ~
In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
~By John Lasseter ~
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 ~
I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.
~By Diane Sawyer ~
It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
~By Walt Disney ~
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
~By Harriet Van Horne ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
~By Wyclef Jean ~
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.
~By David Antin ~
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
~By W. H. Auden ~
Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
~By Marilyn Manson ~
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 ~
In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it.
~By Daniel Waters ~
This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
~By Eartha Kitt ~
When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.
~By Nina Blackwood ~
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
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 ~
I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it.
~By Ian Jackson ~
There's a huge demand for my entertainment, and I can't meet the need. So I decided to try a TV show to reach as many of my fans as possible.
~By Tyler Perry ~
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