Subject: Entertainment (Page 16)

Get up from that piano; you hurtin' its feelings.

(1885 – 1945) American ragtime pianist, bandleader & composer

[The First Wives Club] had strong American values: divorce, alcoholism, plastic surgery and revenge.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

Acting: Farting about in disguise.

(1932 – 2013) Irish stage & film actor

I only know two tunes: one of them is “Yankee Doodle” and the other isn’t.

(1822 – 1885) 18th U.S. president & army general

[Walking Tall] stars The Rock, but The Wood might be a better description of his performance.

film reviewer & critic

Ladies and gentlemen, I've suffered for my music… now it's your turn.

(1944 – ) English actor, musician & comic writer

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

When I dance, people think I’m looking for my keys.

(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter

This is the method taught in the Elizabeth Hurley school of acting: If you happen to be a vapid idiot, always play one in the movies and audiences will love you for your self-mocking sense of fun.

American film critic

Once he was introduced as "The man who always steals the show – one joke at a time."

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

My body has no sexual meaning anymore, so if I can make people laugh with it, at least it's being used.

Louis Szekely (1967 – ) American comedian, writer, actor & director

I know two kinds of audiences only – one coughing, and one not coughing.

(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

They want to play the blues so badly… and that's how they play it – badly!

American bluesman

They're not understudies, they're overstudies.

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

You know, the only difference between me and a surgeon or a pediatrician is that when I approach a couple with a child and say, ‘I’d like to keep him for a few days and do some bloodwork,’ it’s considered inappropriate.

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies.

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

Never buy a man a plasma TV until you’re married; a lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don’t need a girlfriend.

(1963 – ) American comedian & author

I went to the cinema, and the prices were: Adults $5.00, children $2.50; so I said, “Give me two boys and a girl.”

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

You know you’re getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.

(1953 – ) American comedian, actor, voice artist, & columnist