Subject: Entertainment

Why should people go out and pay to see bad movies when they can stay home and see bad television for nothing.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter

Marriage is like having cable with one channel.

(Nathaniel Stroman) (1963 – ) American actor, voice artist & comedian

Bizet was a very young man when he composed this symphony, so play it softly.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

If you have watched a TV series only once, and you watch it again, it will be a rerun of the same episode.

Play us a medley of your hit.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

This might have been good for a picture… except it has too many characters in it.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

People think I hate sex; I don’t; I just don’t like things that stop you seeing the television properly.

(1953 – 2016) British comedian, actress, singer & screenwriter

If you're gonna see a play about slavery, it's important that you watch it with your white friends because you know they're gonna pick up dinner that night.

American stand-up comedian

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

(1962 – ) American author & poet

Support bacteria – they're the only culture some people have.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Try everything once except incest and folk dancing.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

Look, it’s my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it’s your misery that you have to love it, and the price of the misery is thirteen hundred and fifty dollars.

(1903 – 1970) Russian artist

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

Opera has made me consider suicide.

(1939 – American actor, comedian & writer

The intensity of movie publicity is in inverse ratio to the quality of the movie.

It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic.

(1906 – 1998) Russian-born English film producer & media mogul

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right… he failed.

(1927 – 1989) author, essayist & environmentalist

You know the really great thing about television? If something important happens, anywhere in the world, night or day… you can always change the channel.

(1938 – ) American actor

I enjoy using the comedy technique of self-deprecation – but I’m not very good at it.

Scottish comedian