Subject: Entertainment (Page 36)

Acting is pretending, and the most difficult part is pretending you’re eating regularly.

I was never so scared in my life… and I was in the war!

(1908 – 2005) English actor

Does it have a happy ending?

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Let's face it, show business is run by 2,000 Jews and Oprah, and she lives next door to Spielberg, which makes her Jewish by association.

(1965 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor, director & author

I play the harmonica, but only way I can play is if I get my car going really fast, and stick it out the window.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

(1889 – 1974) American intellectual, writer, reporter & political commentator

At the Academy Award Dinners all the actors and actresses in Hollywood gather around to see what someone else thinks about their acting besides their press agents.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

Jazz Musician: A juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

I have no problem not listening to The Temptations.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

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

The acrobats are performing freaks at the circus.

Everyone tries to get you to dance at clubs; and then I dance, and they’re like ‘not like that!’

(1978 – ) American comedian & writer

I always said that I'd like Barrymore's acting till the cows came home. Well, ladies and gentleman, last night the cows came home.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor

It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver… Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.

(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer

I like Wagner's music better than any other music; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Tonight I’m going to listen with my ears.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

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

He must have made it before he died.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

The scratch on the record is through the song you like most.