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 ~
I'm an entertainer in the military-entertainment complex.
~By Bruce Sterling ~
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 ~
I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.
~By Vincente Minnelli ~
On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.
~By Kid Rock ~
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 ~
The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.
~By Ronnie Corbett ~
Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
~By Caprice Bourret ~
Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
~By Martin Kippenberger ~
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 ~
Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
~By Nile Rodgers ~
I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
~By Nancy Kerrigan ~
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 ~
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 ~
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
~By David Ogilvy ~
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
~By Brian Lumley ~
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 ~
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 ~
We're the only dance in town. We don't compete with any professional teams for the entertainment dollar.
~By Hayden Fry ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.
~By Donal Logue ~
And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.
~By Mark Strand ~
I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.
~By Alan Vega ~
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
~By Elia Kazan ~
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 ~
Michael Eisner let it be known last week that he had no intention of leaving the entertainment business once he steps down as CEO of Disney in October.
~By Peter Bart ~
Music is escapism, it's entertainment.
~By Andy Taylor ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
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 ~
Entertainment and art are not isolated.
~By Martin Kippenberger ~
I wouldn't tell you anything about anybody I cared about because it becomes entertainment for other people, and it sort of just cheapens everything in your life. I would never tell you if I was dating anybody.
~By Kristen Stewart ~
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
~By Neil Simon ~
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.
~By Marshall McLuhan ~
Politics has become entertainment.
~By Joe Eszterhas ~
I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
~By Wyclef Jean ~
I want to direct, write, produce... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.
~By Jason Marsden ~
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 ~
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 ~
Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
~By Victoria Jackson ~
I need that on stage. I need a burst of life. That's entertainment for me.
~By Tina Turner ~
It's disappointing to see films become pure entertainment, so that it's not an art form.
~By Richard Linklater ~
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 don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
~By Fiona Apple ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.
~By Kevin Richardson ~
I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.
~By Rob Zombie ~
I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.
~By Robert Smith ~
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 ~
A lot of our entertainment throws into detail the stagnation and illness of how we live today-it's sad and it's sick... and it's profitable.
~By Heather Donahue ~
I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.
~By Howie Mandel ~
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 ~
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 ~
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment.
~By Linda Lavin ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
~By Rudolf Arnheim ~
Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.
~By Connie Sellecca ~
Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
~By Lynn Swann ~
There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.
~By David Spade ~
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 ~
My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic.
~By Yancy Butler ~
For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.
~By Wim Wenders ~
The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment.
~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 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 ~
It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best.
~By Jake Roberts ~
It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
~By Garth Brooks ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 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 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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment.
~By George Ade ~
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
~By Lee Child ~
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
~By Terry Brooks ~
Mobile entertainment is a huge opportunity. We are committed to mobile just as much as we are to PCs.
~By Rob Glaser ~
|