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Get up from that piano; you hurtin' its feelings.
Jelly Roll Morton
(1885 – 1945) American ragtime pianist, bandleader & composer
Entertainment
Music
Piano
To someone playing poorly
[The First Wives Club] had strong American values: divorce, alcoholism, plastic surgery and revenge.
Bette Midler
(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian
Entertainment
Film
American values
Acting: Farting about in disguise.
Peter O'Toole
(1932 – 2013) Irish stage & film actor
Acting
Entertainment
Farting
I only know two tunes: one of them is “Yankee Doodle” and the other isn’t.
Ulysses S. Grant
(1822 – 1885) 18th U.S. president & army general
Entertainment
Music
[Walking Tall] stars The Rock, but The Wood might be a better description of his performance.
Peter Rainer
film reviewer & critic
Acting
Entertainment
Insults
About wrestler turned actor The Rock
Ladies and gentlemen, I've suffered for my music… now it's your turn.
Neil Innes
(1944 – ) English actor, musician & comic writer
Entertainment
Music
Suffering
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
Noel Coward
(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Entertainment
Intelligence
Wit
When I dance, people think I’m looking for my keys.
Ray Romano
(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter
Dance
Entertainment
Self
As Ray Barone in “Everybody Loves Raymond”
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.
Andrew O'Hehir
American film critic
Acting
Reviews/Criticism
Elizabeth Hurley
Once he was introduced as "The man who always steals the show – one joke at a time."
George Burns
(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
Entertainment
Milton Berle stealing jokes
My body has no sexual meaning anymore, so if I can make people laugh with it, at least it's being used.
Louis C.K.
Louis Szekely (1967 – ) American comedian, writer, actor & director
Acting
Appearance
Body
Entertainment
On doing a nude scene
I know two kinds of audiences only – one coughing, and one not coughing.
Arthur Schnabel
(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist
Entertainment
Music
Audiences
Coughing
An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
Fred Allen
(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian
Entertainment
Hollywood
Places
Producers
They want to play the blues so badly… and that's how they play it – badly!
Sonny Boy Williamson
American bluesman
Entertainment
Insults
Music
Bues
They're not understudies, they're overstudies.
George S. Kaufman
(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Acting
Entertainment
Actors
Understudies
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.
Laura Kightlinger
(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer
Doctors
Entertainment
Health
Bloodwork
Comedy profession
Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies.
Bob Hope
(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Appearance
Body
Dance
People
Being a dance instructor
Rumba
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.
Greg Behrendt
(1963 – ) American comedian & author
Entertainment
Television
Things
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.”
Steven Wright
(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Children
Entertainment
Money
Movies
Prices
Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.
Fred Allen
(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian
Entertainment
Television
You know you’re getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.
Larry Miller
(1953 – ) American comedian, actor, voice artist, & columnist
Age
Entertainment
Golf
Old
Television
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