Top 400 Entertainment Quotes

Here we have the best Entertainment Quotes from famous authors such as David E. Kelley, Ethan Hawke, Stephen Greenblatt, Michael Cudlitz, Carlos Santana. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

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You’ve got to honor your relationship with your audience – that they sit down because they want to be entertained. And that doesn’t mean you can’t provoke them and antagonize them and challenge them in the course of the entertainment as long as you keep the entertainment part of the equation alive.

The thing that makes a great genre movie is one that’s not just entertainment, not just horror or sci-fi or whatever. The ones I love are the genre pictures with some subversive message underlying it all.

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.

Some shows just go away – and that’s fine. They serve their purpose and their entertainment value, but there are shows that touch people in different ways and that they remember.

KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn’t need the mask.

If you’re creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

For news, I follow ‘The New York Times,’ ‘The New Yorker,’ and ‘ProPublica.’ For entertainment, I like The A.V. Club and The Onion.

In my day, when I was a young kid, army duty was compulsory in South Africa or you go to jail. I had the choice, so I spent a year in the entertainment unit, and outside of doing shows – and I used to write for, arrange for the big band – outside of doing that, I actually had a rock band in the army.

A lot of children‘s entertainment is animated, and I guess the beauty of The Wiggles is that we’re still real people… You’re able to be predominantly yourself. I think that’s why children relate.

I am focusing on entertainment because entertainment is the best way to promote sports in India. And wrestling can benefit a lot through entertainment. That’s why I am trying my best to juggle between wrestling and entertainment.

You know, going to the movies has always been recession-proof. It’s fairly cheap entertainment; it’s classic escapism.

Everyone’s heard the same joke a million times and knows the setups. They are tired of the mass-marketed entertainment served on the networks.

People regard Yahoo as a platform for essential services, and it’s had a profound impact on the way people obtain information, communicate, and their entertainment.

YouTube is becoming much more than an entertainment destination.

If you are writing a story and trying to draw an audience to come and hear you tell it, it’s got to in some way relate to them. Who wants to come and hear about your specific problems? It’s not therapy – it’s supposed to be a communal piece of entertainment.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

Hey, I’m like the Wayne Gretsky of the entertainment biz – I have other people do my dirty work while I skate around and get to be a nice guy. What can I say? I’m a coward.

Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven‘t pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Frank Zappa
E.T.’ and ‘Extra,’ they are too salacious. They go, Oooh, Katie Couric just broke up with X. ‘Access Hollywood‘ is really good entertainment news. It’s not dirty, and we don’t get cheap.

Billy Bush
Entertainment and art are not isolated.

Martin Kippenberger
I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.

Jerry Bruckheimer
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.

Stieg Larsson
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

Jack Brickhouse
I hate entertainment.

I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it’s bad.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn’t necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book.

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Alfred Amoroso
I like to take things one step at a time, because the entertainment industry is very uncertain.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

Carroll O’Connor
Singing and entertainment are now my first priority.

William Hung
The entertainment industry and my place in it is a place where you burn brightly for as long as you can.

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.

The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years.

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.

I’m like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I’ve loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

It’s kind of sad, the way we’ve turned the entertainment of reading into a kind of psychic broccoli – something to feel guilty about if you don’t force it on your face-making children while dutifully consuming a few token florets yourself.

I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don’t feel too stupid watching. In ‘Xanadu,’ the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.

Douglas Carter Beane
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.

Ivor Novello
There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

David Spade
Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character – even its films, it’s argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.

As we’ve come along, we’ve educated our audience, getting them to understand that brands do not compromise entertainment. For us, they enhance it. They enable it.

Rhett McLaughlin
Entertainment is one of America’s greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

Kelly McCreary
I grew up in a small town in Alabama, and there wasn’t much in the way of entertainment, so like our older siblings before us, we drove our pickup trucks out into the hayfield and lit a bonfire.

Abbi Glines
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.

In America, there’s more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that’s not even an issue. I think people just assume that music should be everything.

I’ve come up in the scripted world, and I have wished there were more time slots for us to tell compelling scripted stories and not fill the airwaves with a lot of fluff and tabloid entertainment.

People lament that there’s no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don’t want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don’t get it both ways.

My opinion is that you cannot really blame cinema for the result of what is somebody‘s mindset. I think it’s just entertainment. For me, I’ve always believed in doing things that I can sit and watch with my family. So far I think I’ve stuck to that, and I will also in the future.

Mary Hart says she meant to stay on ‘Entertainment Tonight‘ for three years. She was on for 29.

Drew Lachey
Sometimes I’ve found that by getting into a certain drag, or a certain feeling, you can cast off your mortal coil and really do something. I don’t know if it’s important, but it’s something. It’s entertainment.

NLE stands for No Love Entertainment. It’s pretty much a brand.

My mom and dad – they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn’t the end-all. They weren’t out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about ‘What can we do as a family.’

It’s so funny: whenever there’s a new technology introduced, there’s always this fear it’s going to end entertainment as we know it. When records came around, they were going to be the end of live music. Nobody would ever want to go see live music again.

You look at someone like Beyonce singing ‘Single Ladies,’ when we all know she’s married. Some of it is just for entertainment.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn’t be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds – the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can’t substitute time, you just can’t.

Corey Hart
Sport-based video games occupy an odd space within the sphere of modern home entertainment. Reliably enjoyed by millions, the sport-based video game stands at what sometimes feels like an oblique angle from the larger medium, and in ways that can be hard to articulate.

Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It’s the nature of the business.

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.

Ian Jackson
We use our gadgets for distraction and entertainment. We use them to avoid work while giving the impression that we’re actually working hard.

IPL is a T20 franchise tournament combining cricket and Bollywood to offer entertainment.

Any time guys move to ‘Raw’ and ‘SmackDown,’ I think that is what has kept NXT so relevant and has kept the fans so invested because they are now conditioned that whoever leaves or comes in, NXT, as a product, is going to give really exciting sports entertainment every time.

The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist – meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.

You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there’s a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.

I think people do want to relate their entertainment to what’s going on in their lives. Not everything.

The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It’s important to me to feel like I have my own life.

Instagram‘ is a media company. I think we’re about visual media. I explain ourselves as a disruptive entertainment platform that enables communication through visual media. I don’t think it’s just photos.

Every piece of entertainment is made with the idea that ‘This is going to be terrific‘ and ‘This is the best thing I’ve ever done‘ and then it hits the public and then the public tells you whether it’s good or bad.

When you’re in the entertainment industry, you have to be more mature, be able to hang with the adults.

Alexander Gould
I don’t know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

I am not in the entertainment business; I am in the justice business.

The idea of bringing equality not just to entertainment but to every walk of life – I think it’s very important.

Some of the History Channel’s documentaries involve docudrama segments and are highly speculative – but there seems, on the part of the producers, to be a real determination to get at the history behind our past – not the sex, which is left to drama shows and entertainment channels.

When I was young, my parents made me listen to old music and watch Jimmy Durante. I fell in love with the whole mystique of acting and entertainment.

Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight.

Karen Abbott
‘Entertainment Tonight’ would send me out to do interviews with musicians like Sting and Coldplay, and I was able to watch how they plan their shows. The late Jerry Garcia of Grateful Dead always had a game plan, but he also was flexible if he had to change something at the last minute.

There are so many entertainment optionsNetflix, Amazon, Hulu – and especially for younger people, who are Internet-savvy and video game fans.

Toby Emmerich
You can’t ignore the obvious. Women after a certain age are believed to be good for nothing in the entertainment field, especially in the Latin world.

I’ll be doing God a discredit if I didn’t come out here and showcase all this ability that he gave me and try to give the fans entertainment and be who I am.

Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.

I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.

Growing up in the entertainment industry, I’ve had a lot of people tell me I’m not good enough.

Renee Olstead
I rely on my iPad for on-the-go entertainment. I stock it with TV shows, like ‘Parks and Recreation‘ and the British version of ‘The Office.’ I’m reading a Charles Manson biography on it too, since I’m weirdly into true crime.

Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.

We spend more time at cinemas, theaters, art galleries and theme parks than we do at churches, and they have become our new cathedrals. We can spend hours at any of these places of entertainment but if church service goes on too long we get impatient.

Michael Huffington
Most restaurant people work much harder physically, on a daily basis, than most entertainers. Though most people in entertainment complain more.

Art is for entertainment purposes, but it’s also to reflect our dreams, our hopes, the present, the future the past – whether it’s good or bad.

I enjoy shooting. Around where I live, it’s something you do for entertainment once in a while, you go out and shoot targets.

Bonnie Jo Campbell
Tupac and I were just close friends because we had such an insatiable drive and passion for acting and entertainment.

‘From Here to Eternityhappens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.

Manny Farber
Advertisers now have a highly targeted opportunity for aligning their brands alongside the entertainment experience people are enjoying on YouTube.

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.

There’s a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who’s doing what and who hates who and who’s doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.

I’m aware families sit around the telly to watch ‘Vera’, which is making entertainment out of murder. But I don’t enjoy reading about people’s pain. I tend to put myself in that position, and it’s not somewhere I want to be.

Ann Cleeves
You can’t be pretentious about what we do, because at the end of the day, movies are about entertainment, and if people get 10 dollarsworth, then that’s okay.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

When I first got into the entertainment industry, I would always watch Rihanna and all those people, so I was like, ‘Ooh, I have to be this.’ So my mom was like, ‘Just be yourself.’

Willow Smith
I wasn’t a ‘Star Trek‘ fan, yet I knew who all the characters were. that goes to show what an impact the show had not just in entertainment but in life. I knew who Chekhov was and I knew who Kirk and Spock were, although I probably had never seen the show.

Marina Sirtis
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.

Linda Lavin
Supermarket tabloids and celebrity gossip shows are not just innocently shallow entertainment, but a fundamental part of a much larger movement that involves apathy, greed and hierarchy.

The reporting I did was mostly entertainment or lifestyle. I took a very different approach than most reporters. I approached it more casually than you would think a reporter would. Now I’m a morning radio personality, and radio is really casual.

Eleanor Mondale
Maybe the biggest award show of the largest entertainment importer in the world needs an economic incentive to embrace diversity. Indeed, maybe we should boycott the show and pressure advertisers to do the same. Or maybe the Academy should learn the lesson of history and change because it’s the right thing to do.

Our secular culture is adrift in a sea of relativism, escapism, and self-indulgent inanities, with our media and entertainment elites leading the parade.

Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texasfinest form of free entertainment ever invented.

Like any other entertainment medium, we must create an emotional response in order to succeed. Laughter, fear, joy, affection, surprise, and – most of all – accomplishment. In the end, triggering these feelings from our players is the true judgment of our work. This is the bottom line measurement of success.

Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it’s there at all right now. It’s all entertainment.

Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It’s almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.

You know, the Super Bowl is so fresh that every single commercial is even on, you know, some next-level entertainment.

I think good entertainment makes you feel something… it can be a variety of different feelings.

Well, I’ve been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all.

Well, first of all it’s entertainment. That stops us becoming too pretentious or thinking we’re great artists.

Richard Thompson
I think people should be able to have at their behest, like, four hours of music, entertainment, visual knowledge, different pathways. That’s what I’m trying to do with modern technology, not just another song and another song.

If you’re doing a family movie, you don’t want it to be stupid. Farting chihuahuas is not my idea of entertainment for kids or adults. So you try to make a movie that adults can see on one level, and kids can see on another.

I have so many strong opinions on the entertainment industry, but if I’m in a deli somewhere, and someone says they love that Adam Sandler movie where he dresses up as his twin sister – well, I don’t want to make people feel bad for how they feel about things. I’m always courteous, not mean.

I think horror films in the past maybe touched on social themes having to do with whatever era in which they were made, but in the end, it’s definitely an escapist form of entertainment.

Brooke Nevin
What do you actually need? Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.

Aloe Blacc
You never know what’s going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would never rule out the fact that Rock wants to come home.

I’ve always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

Holt McCallany
I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

I don’t think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.

Tatyana Tolstaya
But I grew up in a place where no one knew anyone in the entertainment business, I never knew it was an actual career. The closest I ever got to movies was going to watch them, and I thought that’s the way it would be, so I never considered working in this business.

Joseph Kosinski
The entertainment is in the presentation.

John McTiernan
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.

Christopher Knight
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.

George Berkeley
Mixed martial arts, UFC, or what have you, I don’t think it has anything to do with rankings. It doesn’t have to do with ‘this guy beat this guy so he deserves a title shot.’ It might be like that every once in a while, but this is entertainment and the two biggest names – the best story.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

Lance Reddick
None of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.

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.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment – the most fun thing that we could do was food.

Our goals were and are to be sure that we set up DC Entertainment to be more integrated and more cooperative within DC as well as in Warner Bros.

If you are at the top in entertainment, you earn money that you can never justify to ordinary people doing proper jobs. You can’t.

Television is a very writer-driven business, and it’s one of the few parts of entertainment where writers are treated with respect, only because they need you. If they didn’t have to treat you with respect, they would be happy to dismiss you.

I happen to believe that video games will be the largest sport and entertainment in the world. The reason for that is a video game can be every sport. You can be anybody.

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.

Mary Hart
We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.

I don’t want to ever intentionally hurt someone, because it is pure entertainment.

The UFC focuses on entertainment, but that’s not what fighting is about. It is not a concert.

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.

Wonderful characters rotate around and through bookshops on a daily basis, competing with and possibly even triumphing over fiction when it comes to entertainment, strangeness and inspiration.

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.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.

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.

Dora Russell
I love the fact that Atlanta has given the entertainment industry an additional and growing hub. The opportunities personally and professionally have been a wonderful blessing.

If, for people, Instagram is just entertainment, for me, it’s an additional burden.

While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment.

Most entertainment careers aren’t going to end in fame.

Tyler Hilton
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.

Connie Mack
People get used to more complex forms of entertainment, and they become bored by simpler forms. Television has become more complex in order to feed our demand.

I love sport as long as it’s kept as an entertainment – not a meaning of life.

They weren’t interested in entertainment. They were tough. I learned one trick, which was to be quieter than they were until they had to look at you. It took a lot of agressiveness.

Television is full of fictional and real violence that’s turned into entertainment.

Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.

Russian young people spend countless hours online downloading videos and having a very nice digital entertainment lifestyle, which does not necessarily turn them into the next Che Guevara.

WWE prepares you for everything in entertainment. It’s the truth. You need a host? Get a WWE Superstar. You need someone for an action movie, a comedy movie, a drama movie, you get a WWE Superstar. Because these guys are the most well-versed, well-trained, and hardest working guys out there.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don’t know what I’m going to come at you with.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

Gambling is entertainment… Financial markets, what one often refers to as speculation, is really the force by which we move capital to the best and highest use.

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!

If you want to learn about America, watch ‘The Wire.’ It’s a profound piece of entertainment.

I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.

Sunny Deol
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens‘ ‘A Tale of Two Cities.’ It was just for entertainment – we read it aloud – and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

Dermot Healy
We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.

Gaming related content will redefine entertainment and I am looking forward to leading the way.

Dr Disrespect
We want to be a consolidator, not a seller, and we want to continue to explore the kind of targeted entertainment, targeted audiences, that I think are happening and emerging in every country in the world.

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.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

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.

My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment – TV – Hollywood – whatever have you – always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life.

I had people in ‘Entertainment Weekly’ talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.

I’m proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I’ve also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

I have always really liked creating family entertainment, and Disney does that really well.

Being young is an advantage. You’ve grown up with games as the dominant entertainment. You have a lot of experience of video games. So what do you want to see that’s not been done? Innovation is really low cost for you. You can afford to take risks and fail to execute new ideas.

Kim Swift
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!

I’ve been been on the cover of TV Guide, on every single talk and entertainment show except Letterman. It’s interesting being older and dealing with this kind of success. I’m more appreciative of it now, and I don’t take it for granted.

I think people are looking for an alternative to the fast pace of everyday life and entertainment.

Sometimes I get a little confused because with dancing I can express my emotions with my body. With acting you have to do it with your face and your expressions, and then with animated shows you have to use your voice and use your inflections. So it’s definitely a challenge to transfer from each genre of entertainment.

NLE stands for No Love Entertainment. It’s pretty much a brand.

Other than my sexuality, I am vulnerable regarding my physical appearance, as I am not what people considered ideal by most standards. For the entertainment business, I am not the body type of what is typically cast for television or movies.

Alex Newell
Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn’t done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn’t know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.

Jesse Stone
My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.

My job was to entertain. I’ve always seen myself in the entertainment realm.

In entertainment, we have a comfort level with crisis.

I left acting in the summer of 1988 because I was unhappy with a lot of the irresponsibility that was going on in the entertainment industry.

Ben Harney
But in Delhi, people love artists. They love any musician, any actor; anybody from the art field who visits from the entertainment industry, gets an amazing response in Delhi.

Beating up on public schools is not just our nation‘s favorite blood sport, but also a favorite conversational entertainment of the well-off – like debating the most recent toothsome plot twists of ‘Big Love’ – who, of course, have no dog in the fight.

Politics are well past logic. It’s entertainment.

Martin Shkreli
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.

We strongly believe that the Philippines has huge potential in the tourism industry, given our beautiful islands, moderate weather conditions, good cuisine, and the flair of Filipinos for hospitality and entertainment.

I think I’d like to be a lion tamer, actually. That – that would provide the most audience entertainment if something went really badly.

Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make ‘entertainment for everyone.’

I was a little tomboy, growing up, but we had to go to the library every weekend if we wanted some form of entertainment. And I would gravitate towards the Shirley Temple, Judy Garland section of the library, and I would just pop that in and watch on replay because kids can watch movies over and over again.

People love gossip. It’s the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

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.

Alan Keyes
I’m kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

Victoria Jackson
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.

Meat Loaf
We talk of communing with Nature, but ‘tis with ourselves we commune… Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

‘Mission: Impossible‘ is basically entertainment, and for what it is, it’s fine. I don’t think most actors become actors to do that type of film.

As entertainment and storytelling move in the direction of more immersive environments, binaural sound will begin to play a larger and larger role in those experiences.

There is much to life than fame and fortune. If you are a part of the entertainment industry, please remember it is all temporary.

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.

Ian Jackson
People can take, take, take from you. There are people whose profession is to do that. It’s entertainment at the cost of human lives.

My biggest entertainment in Moscow was to go to the subway and watch people. When American students visited, I watched them; I learned English from them.

Since I was 9 years old, I’ve been in the entertainment business, and everyone is always telling me what – and what not – to do… you just get a tough skin and have to not care about what people think, or you will not end up in a good place.

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn’t primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature.

Stieg Larsson
I really feel like ‘True Blood‘ is a big, giant slice of cake for the audience every week; it’s offering people 60 minutes of sometimes thought-provoking entertainment. If you’re gonna give an Emmy out, you should probably give it to the audience of ‘True Blood.’

Chris Bauer
We’ve defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we’ll watch it.

On a pure entertainment level, if I’m going to choose to listen to a presidential candidate speak on a Saturday night, it’s going to be Donald Trump over Bernie Sanders by a landslide!

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.

My family aren’t performers. They’re just normal people. They don’t understand this entertainment world. They just think it’s mental. They have no idea what I’m doing in America.

Jay Ryan
I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.

Having one’s image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once you’ve let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.

Jack Gleeson
Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience’s defection to other forms of entertainment.

I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.

Eugene Levy
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.

As more delivery systems for entertainment producers come on board, you have all these different formats where people are compensated.

Entertainment and escapism – those are the bigger money-making films today.

One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.

I always knew I wanted to work in entertainment, but I actually really wanted to be a singer more than an actress.

India de Beaufort
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.

I think ‘The Hunger Games‘ has a really powerful message about survival, and sacrificing for the ones you love. It’s almost like a warning for us to not lose touch of our humanity. We live in a world in which we watch other’s misfortunes for entertainment.

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.

To me, what’s really an important difference between traditional entertainment and digital – on YouTube specifically – is that people thrive when they’re authentic about themselves.

I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.

I do a film if it interests me, has a connect with the audience and some entertainment value. The rest doesn’t matter.

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

Nothing surprises me when it comes to people in the entertainment business.

Adam Goldberg
I guess my mission statement is now to let the world know on a global scale that WWE certainly is a wonderful form of entertainment, but its superstars are more than just superstars inside the ring. They do so much more outside the ring and have so much more to offer.

Consumers are increasingly programming their own entertainment and content experiences.

Art is difficult. It’s not entertainment.

Anselm Kiefer
I think anyone who has a job in the entertainment industry that is ongoing and then decides they get bored and doesn’t want to do it anymore is foolish!

Melissa Rivers
Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.

I think the best entertainment tackles social issues in a sort of seamless way.

Dana Walden
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.

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.

My whole way of looking at entertainment and audience engagement – and my ability to go from one genre to another – comes from my experience in New Orleans.

I feel blessed – I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don’t want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I’ve gained in that time.

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.

George Thorogood
Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

Drew Curtis
In general, both in Spanish and English, the quality of the entertainment media is horrible.

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.

I think fun is an important part of the entertainment industry, and it should be. Anybody who’s not incorporating some of that into their work needs to take a break, go away, and have an attitude adjustment.

A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, ‘I’m going to play the Steam store now.’

A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.

People see me on TV two and three times a day, and see me cooking all these wonderfully Southern, fattening dishes. That’s only 30 days out of 365. And it’s for entertainment.

I was a very naughty child, on the verge of getting expelled, but I wasn’t a bad child; everything I did was for my own entertainment. But when I went into an exam, I did really well.

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.

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

Two Chainz
I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.

Charles Michael Davis
I think there’s always a call for people who are bucking the norm. But I don’t expect it to happen now because I think that more than ever the entertainment industry is trying to serve as a distraction, to keep people from thinking too hard.

Guy Picciotto
I understand popular entertainment better than anyone. I want to have the world’s No. 1 tennis player, the hottest movie, the biggest artist.

Simon Fuller
I grew up in the age of radio. That was my main boyhood form of entertainment: lying on the living room floor with my ears affixed to the radio. I loved shows like ‘The Phantom,’ ‘Cisco Kid,’ and even ‘Happy Theater’ when I was younger.

Men will shop, but they only shop when they need something. Women shop with passion and because it’s enjoyable, and for some, it’s even entertainment. All you have to do is step into a mall and see how many stores are geared towards men and how many are geared towards women, and you’ll get the picture.

Brian Lee
We take what’s shown on television as the truth, and it isn’t. News isn’t even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn’t that what we’re watching on the new – it’s entertainment.

We are in the entertainment business and we all know if you are top of the tree you get the big money. Those of us who have been in it are the fortunate ones but we understand that we probably don’t deserve it as much as the nurses or teachers.

I think Tupac was more someone who was trying to inform us about what was going on, and he did it through entertainment.

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.

A television chat show is light entertainment, so it is trivial by its very nature. It is hardly the place to get people to reveal their innermost thoughts. Then it becomes sensationalism, and you lower yourself to the level of the popular newspapers.

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

Jacques Audiard
I’ll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who’s in the entertainment industry does to some extent.

Christopher Isherwood
Mayweather Promotions – we are the past, the present, and the future of sports and entertainment, and everybody knows Mayweather’s pay is better.

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.

We have a habit of turning to scientists when we want factual answers and artists when we want entertainment, but where are the facts about the nature of the self? Neurologists peering at PET scans and fMRIs know they aren’t seeing the soul in there.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you’re forced to think about work.

If you’re looking for light entertainment, you can’t get much lighter than ‘Bye Bye Birdie,’ a flyweight farce about the coming of rock n’ roll to small-town America.

I don’t want to be someone’s entertainment.

Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.

Pure entertainment is not an egotistical lady singing boring songs onstage for two hours and people in tuxes clapping whether they like it or not. It’s the real performers on the street who can hold people’s attention and keep them from walking away.

Andy Kaufman
I’m not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that’s more what entertainment and music should be.

Magic is the Special Olympics of entertainment.

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

I’m a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

Others may prefer mindless entertainment, but on Sunday nights, you’ll find me parked right in front of my television, munching popcorn and improving my intellect by watching ‘Masterpiece Classic.’

I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.

Frankenstein‘ did not invent the fear of science; the novel found its audience because it dramatized anxieties that already existed. Although popular entertainment can, over the long run, shape public perceptions, it becomes popular in the first place only if it addresses preexisting hopes, fears, and fascinations.

I grew up in the industry, so this whole entertainment thing is my world. If I had to leave it, maybe I’d be a race-car driver. That’d be awesome.

Mitchel Musso
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.

I have six sisters and two beautiful daughters – that’s eight women who mean the world to me. I support the Entertainment Industry Foundation and Lee National Denim Day because they fund programs that are making huge strides in breast cancer research and support.

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.

I got all these books about, like, what you need to know to enter the entertainment industry. And I remember I sent my music to record labels, and I took these little DVDs and sent them all over the place. And either no one got back to me or they just kept saying, ‘You’re too different.’

Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there.

Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.

Neal Stephenson
Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but ‘histo-tainment’ is superficial and lacks all context.

I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We’ll see how that goes.

Born of the impossibly varied options we have to amuse ourselves, cutting-edge companies are finding innovative ways to tailor our entertainment choices to who we are, relieving us of the burden of finding the diamond in the rough of 500 TV channels or thousands of movies and music albums released every year.

Thatgamecompany was founded with the philosophy that games are a form of entertainment, and entertainment is the food for emotion.

Sports is entertainment.

George Stroumboulopoulos
I’ve actually gotten so I don’t associate television with entertainment very much.

Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.

Anything that needs to be labelled ‘The Entertainment’ usually isn’t – especially when it is provided by the endlessly enthusiastic Joel or Nadia wearing trainers and a whistle.

I never read any fairy tales or classics until I was an adult; all we ever had was comics… No television, either. If we wanted entertainment, we hung around the fish shop.

Michael Foreman
The compulsion to do the opposite of what you are told does not lend itself to many occupations outside the entertainment industry. Within the industry, it is unlikely that you will be very successful without it.

Greg Fitzsimmons
Bigg Boss Kannada’ manages to surprise me every season with the innovations in the concept and introduction of numerous entertainment avenues, not only for the housemates and viewers of the show but also for myself.

My background is that I’ve spent a lot of time marketing entertainment. One of the old saws in package goods is you can take something that is popular and you can make it more popular. But if you take something less popular, you can’t automatically market it into the same success as something that’s already popular.

Fred Seibert
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.

I just grew up loving acting and loving entertainment.

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.

No one in my family is in entertainment. They thought acting was a fun hobby, and when I got a degree, I’d settle down.

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.

Kim Mathers
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.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

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.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn’t resist it.

Vincente Minnelli
I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

I’m thrilled with the work Tim Palen and his marketing team have done on the film. It’s appropriately disturbing and thought-provoking how the campaign promotes ‘Catching Fire’ while simultaneously promoting the Capitol‘s punitive forms of entertainment.

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

The Bible was not written for entertainment purposes, so it’s a real hodgepodge and a compendium of all kinds of stuff.

Overall, while the Rovi entertainment store is a nice stand-alone offering, more importantly, however, it is also a part of our total customer solution, fitting in now with our data and TotalGuide offerings.

Alfred Amoroso
The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the waterblue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be – were enough to watch.

I developed the pilot for ‘Entertainment Tonight’ with Jack Haley, Jr. and Al Masini, who became my business partner in ‘Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous,’ ‘Runaway‘ and several other shows and specials.

I welcome newcomers to cons, or ‘con-virgins’ as I like to call them, by saying ‘Welcome to the ‘Supernatural‘ Circus,’ and I mean it. We take pride as a cast to deliver a show that not only entertains the fans but ourselves, Creation Entertainment, and everyone involved on both sides.

Matt Cohen
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.

Holly Valance
We’re in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.

We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

Some of the most morally conscious, kindest, most compassionate people are in the entertainment industry, people who want to affect the world and make it a better place through telling human, heartfelt stories.

I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That’s all I do. I don’t do anything important; I just work in 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.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

I think, as a woman and as somebody in the entertainment industry, we have to be careful what we’re putting out there and what we’re trying to say.

Maybe someday, if I work hard enough, entertainment will be a career for me, but right now making videos and uploading them to the Internet is just a hobby.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

I’m a pretty good ventriloquist, but it’s the entertainment value and the laughs that keep people sitting there and wanting more.

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.

Mary Hart
Today, most young women are exposed to technology at a very young age, with mobile phones, tablets, the Web or social media. They are much more proficient with technology than prior generations since they use it for all their school work, communication and entertainment.

The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

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.

In entertainment, whether it’s movies or television or whatever, I’m a great audience, but I don’t remember the names of the people I’ve seen or the groups that I’ve heard.

I don’t think it’s an unnatural thing at all for my collaborations or projects to be seen as art but entertainment at the same time.

Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail – all commercial and social verticals are going digital – including money itself.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

I’m not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.

Ivana Milicevic
The entertainment world, television, movies, social media, YouTube stuff, we’re so bombarded with so much imagery and such a great sense of inhumanity, and there is a coarseness, a coarsening of interaction.

Steven Bochco
Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

News events cannot be controlled, nor can newscasts be mapped out like entertainment shows.

It’s funny, I lived my first 38 years of my life with maybe one or two people ever saying that I looked like Greg Kinnear. As soon as I get into the entertainment industry, now it’s 100 percent of people.

Greg Poehler
I’ve always been a sucker for any technology engineered primarily for the entertainment of the human race – even such technology as has been disguised as ‘useful’ or ‘improving’ when we all know the real virtue lies in its ability to distract and divert.

I may be biting off more than I can chew, but with ‘The Simpsons‘ and with ‘Futurama,’ what I’m trying to do in the guise of light entertainment, if this is possible – is nudge people, jostle them a little, wake them up to some of the ways in which we’re being manipulated and exploited.

My dining and entertainment philosophy – I can boil it down to ‘the three C’s – I like my food like my fashion: casual, classic, and with a touch of couture.

I didn’t get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn’t star in a movie until I was 46.

Paul Hogan
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.

I’m 25. I’m a white, blonde girl in the entertainment industry – it’s so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone. I feel more comfortable showing all these odd angles to myself.

I’ve done a variety of projects in different areas of the entertainment industry.

Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on television, and in computer games.

Top creative and innovative talent wants to live in a vibrant, transit-friendly, global city that offers access to not only great jobs but also great food, entertainment and culture.

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.

Gary Gygax
There remains a degree of anti-black intellectualism in entertainment. Middle and upper-middle class blacks have often been portrayed as buffoons in popular culture; witness the characters of Carlton Banks on ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ and Braxton P. Hartnabrig on ‘The Jamie Foxx Show.’

The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don’t want entertainment to be like the steel industry.

Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.

I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.

Flula Borg
It took me a few years to explain to my colleagues and my mentors and the people that I looked up to and I wrestled that I’m not in wrestling anymore. I’m in sports entertainment. Pro’ wrestling doesn’t mean that we’re saying we’re a step up above amateur wrestling, because there’s nothing above Olympic wrestling.

On telly, there’s been a move towards entertainment – with some very high-powered, fast-moving dramas. Then we have the Internet, where we get our information but it’s all in bite-size pieces. I think the documentary, as a form, actually speaks to what’s missing.

I take aliens very seriously and don’t appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.

I consider myself lucky that Sheila Johnson, the cofounder of Black Entertainment Television, didn’t choose to rest on her very impressive business laurels. Her luscious 100 percent modal scarves, printed with photos she takes all over the world, are gorgeous. Wearing one is like being wrapped in a hug.

‘Biutiful’ is a tough film. It doesn’t make concessions to the vulgarity of light entertainment. It’s not the kind of film that you see every day in the Cineplex. But as an artist, it’s the thing that I needed to do.

Films are meant solely to provide entertainment. There are no lessons to be learnt and and inferences to be drawn. Has anyone become dutiful and law abiding after seeing a film that espouses these very virtues? Films can do no more than influence fashion, decor, and hairstyle trends.

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.

You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there’s a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.

As a professional, I get in a dilemma between sport and entertainment. There’s these two sides.

I travel around and hear from so many kids. Their parents say they were always very picky but they watch the show and they want to try stuff. The show is entertainment, but I think it has done so much for the public perception of what food can be.

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.

Al Lewis
When I set out to write ‘Sanctus,’ all I wanted to do was craft a piece of high quality entertainment.

My dad’s a scientist, and my mom’s a teacher, so I didn’t grow up in a family that was into the entertainment world at all.

Eloise Mumford
I mean I do believe there is a responsibility of the entertainment industry in general with everything that is happening with the world, with violence and with climate change and with the stereotypes with Latinos or any community.

Natalia Reyes
I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn’t have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

Kiri Te Kanawa
After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America’s largest source of trade surplus.

Being in the business of the entertainment, fitness plays a more imperative role because there is a corporal representation to constantly cater to.

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.

The idea of taking what people call the ‘entertainment culture’ as a focus of study, including historical perspective, is not a bad idea.

Neil Postman
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Brian Lumley
Honesty works against you in the entertainment field. I try to be a journalist and a documentarian, but that doesn’t mean that people are going to embrace it at the moment. The point is I’m leaving the mark of my hysteria and the political hysteria, and that’s it… I can only do what I do.

If I wasn’t in the entertainment industry at all, I would be a miserable human being serving pancakes at Denny’s. I’m also a singer, so maybe I’d be singing at dark jazz clubs in Brooklyn.

My past films came out on home entertainment in the U.S., so the next question was, how do we get a theatrical in the U.S.? Well, you put a monster in it. That will do it, because people love monster movies.

I’ve long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I’m sort of disconnected from them.

I love visiting LA. It’s an endlessly fascinating city, and is, of course, America’s entertainment capital. Each time I go, I fall in love with it all over again. That said, it’s not the sort of place I’d want to live.

Why are video games so violent? The ones I’ve seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

This is fun. This is entertainment, right guys?

You have to be a mindful eater. There has to be intention in what you do in your life if you’re going to be happy and authentic. Food isn’t supposed to be entertainment in the way that your kids, your work, and your relationship are.

Jorge Cruise
For me, there’s cinema, which I love and would fight for, and then there’s also entertainment, and I see them as very, very different. But sure, I’d love to do a blockbuster. I can’t wait for someone to tell me, ‘Explosion, run!’

It’s great to be able to connect parents with children both emotionally and through humor. I look forward to exploring family entertainment once again and examining the specifics of our day-to-day lives against the backdrop of an extraordinary adventure.

You want to make entertainment sometimes, and sometimes you want to make art, because I think the way we understand ourselves as human beings is through art, and the way we process emotions – I know I do – is through recognizing experiences on screen or in novels or in paintings.

I continue to see good growth in the mobile space; I expect to see PCs being the core driver in the home. And I mean that for entertainment along with the work-at-home space.

Jim Allchin
I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I’m the laziest person that I’ve met yet in this business.

Paul Hogan
If you have any kind of sex appeal, people are quick to accuse, abuse, lie, assume, and make up rumors. And that’s not just in entertainment – that’s in life. Period.

The fans are most important… when it comes to the entertainment industry. They are the ones that matter most, and they should be heard.

For a lot of artists in the entertainment industry, we can’t become too jaded with what’s going on with our personal lives and still not be connected with our people.

In the entertainment business, the biggest gift you could ever get is not an Oscar, it’s not a Grammy, it’s longevity.

The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they’re rare.

People say child stars have a hard time ‘because of the entertainment business,’ but I think there’s a dysfunction before all that. I use the analogy, ‘If you’re a fool without money, you’ll be a fool with money.’

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.

As I plotted ‘Blueprints,’ I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment – and that I needed a TV show in my book.

Barbara Delinsky
A lot of people say, ‘What set the Attitude Era up?’ or, ‘What started the Attitude Era?’ To me – and I was allegedly the leader of it – sports entertainment, pro wrestling, whatever you want to call it has always had an attitude. So, why that particular generation got labeled, I don’t know.

I think people like to be thrilled and excited. And a scary movie is a safe way to do that because you’re not actually doing it. It’s entertainment. You know that you’re in the confines of this two-hour space of safety in the movie house.

I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty… pretty British in our entertainment leads.

Graeme Murphy