Subject: Entertainment (Page 11)

A movie so good they named a country after it.

(1940 – ) American-born British screenwriter, film director, animator & actor (Monty Python’s Flying Circus)

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music.

(1921 – 2009) British composer, pianist and radio & television presenter

In honor of the late George Carlin, here are seven more words you can't say on TV: "And the Emmy goes to Bob Saget."

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

Art is science made clear.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

(1909 – 2000) Danish-born comedian & pianist

I don’t mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don’t understand.

(1892 – 1965) English physicist

If people only knew as much about painting as I do, they would never buy my pictures.

(1802 – 1873) English painter

I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die; I would have thought the obvious one was "Shout For Help."

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

Dancing with her was like moving a piano.

(1885 – 1933) columnist & writer

Violinist: A high-strung musician.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

(1890 – 1937) author

I tell ya, comedy is in my blood; I wish it was in my act.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

The problem with women in an orchestra is that if they’re attractive it will upset my players and if they’re not it will upset me.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

Elwood: Eh… what kind of music do you usually have here?

Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western.

(1941 – ) American actress

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

(1916 – 1994) American singer

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

(1852 – 1917) English actor & theater manager

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way any more… they leave it on the dresser.

(1934 – ) American actress, dancer, activist & author

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.

(1909 – 1976) American lyricist, songwriter & singer

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

American writer

When I told my mom I wanted to grow up and be a comedian, she said you can’t do both.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist