A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
~By George Berkeley ~
I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.
~By Alan Vega ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
Fashion is entertainment. That's why these top models are so fascinating to kids. They're dying to know about Naomi and Christy, or whoever we've declared the new one this afternoon.
~By Carrie Donovan ~
Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.
~By Andrzej Wajda ~
Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
~By Neil Simon ~
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 ~
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 stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.
~By Gerald McRaney ~
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 ~
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 ~
The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
~By Dan Glickman ~
The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.
~By Mike DeWine ~
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 ~
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
~By Alanis Morissette ~
I don't want to be someone's entertainment.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
I think it's even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.
~By Anthony Michael Hall ~
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 ~
Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.
~By Todd Gitlin ~
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 ~
I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.
~By Jerry Bruckheimer ~
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 ~
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 ~
When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.
~By Nina Blackwood ~
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 ~
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
~By Brian Lumley ~
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 ~
First and foremost, I would like to start off by saying that just because my husband is an entertainer, that does not mean that our personal business is for everyone's entertainment purposes.
~By Kim Mathers ~
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 ~
Entertainment and art are not isolated.
~By Martin Kippenberger ~
I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.
~By John Tesh ~
It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.
~By Carroll O'Connor ~
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 ~
If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game.
~By Julius Erving ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
~By Martin Kippenberger ~
It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.
~By Judd Nelson ~
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 ~
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 ~
Bad Boy Entertainment did not shoot anybody. I didn't shoot anybody.
~By Puff Daddy ~
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 ~
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 ~
My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
~By Yancy Butler ~
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 ~
The entertainment is in the presentation.
~By John McTiernan ~
I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.
~By Rob Zombie ~
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 ~
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
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 ~
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
~By Terry Brooks ~
For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
~By Wim Wenders ~
I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
~By Molly Ivins ~
I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.
~By Shannen Doherty ~
After the Rodgers and Hammerstein revolution, songs became part of the story, as opposed to just entertainments in between comedy scenes.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
Politics has become entertainment.
~By Joe Eszterhas ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
~By Mary Wortley Montagu ~
I believe in broken, fractured, complicated narratives, but I believe in narratives as a vehicle for truth, not simply as a form of entertainment, though I love entertainment, but also a way of conveying what needs to be conveyed about the works that I care about.
~By Stephen Greenblatt ~
You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me.
~By Bob Seger ~
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 ~
It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.
~By Jake Roberts ~
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
~By Avery Brundage ~
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 ~
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 ~
Well, first of all it's entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we're great artists.
~By Richard Thompson ~
I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.
~By Sean Lennon ~
We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.
~By Hayden Fry ~
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 ~
Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.
~By Lionel Richie ~
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 get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.
~By Jason Marsden ~
I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.
~By Tina Turner ~
Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment.
~By Chi McBride ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The interest of my mother was more in the entertainment field. She loved to go to concerts and to the theatre.
~By Leon Askin ~
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
Now we're doing it for different reasons. We're doing it to bring back the families to the game, people who love the game, and make it an affordable night's entertainment.
~By Bobby Hull ~
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 ~
In dire economic times, movies are relatively inexpensive entertainment for the whole family.
~By John Lasseter ~
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 ~
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 ~
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