Subject: Entertainment (Page 2)

Hosting the Oscars is much like making love to a woman… it's something I only get to do when Billy Crystal is out of town.

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

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist
Acting Entertainment

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music… and of aviation.

(1937 – ) British playwright & screenwriter
Entertainment Music Science/Weather

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

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist
Entertainment

I watch so much Netflix that, rather than suggesting more shows for me to watch, it’s started suggesting I go outside.

British stand-up comedian
Entertainment Television

Can’t act… slightly bald… also dances.

Acting Dance Entertainment

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

(1893 – 1980) American singer, pianist, comedian & actor
Entertainment Government Politicians

A composer for one right hand.

(1813 – 1883) German composer, conductor, theatre director & essayist
Entertainment Insults Music

Kind of like the difference between making love and masturbation, I’d say.

(1946 – ) American actress & activist
Acting Entertainment

If love was easy, there would be almost no music.

(1960 – ) American comedian
Emotions Love Music

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

(1856 – 1925) American artist & portrait painter
Art Entertainment Friends People

You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained… I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction… I can get all that at home.

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian
Entertainment

Critics can’t even make music by rubbing their back legs together.

(1926 – ) film director, screenwriter, composer, comedian, actor & producer
Entertainment

Let’s be honest: Isn’t a lot what we call tap dancing really just nerves?

Entertainment Miscellaneous

The Detroit String Quartet played Brahms last night… Brahms lost.

(1898 – 1971) American humorist
Music Reviews/Criticism

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny… yet no French sex comedies are funny.

(1954 – ) cartoonist, screenwriter, producer & creator of The Simpsons
Entertainment Film Places Reviews/Criticism

It's a bunch of guys all playing different songs at the same time.

(1968 – ) American actor & comedian
Entertainment Music

Gone With the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history; I'm just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his face and not Gary Cooper.

(1901 – 1961) film actor
Entertainment Film Reviews/Criticism

Television is for appearing on – not for looking at.

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

Alison Skipworth: You forget I’ve been an actress for forty years.

West: Don’t worry dear, I’ll keep your secret.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
Acting Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

When having my portrait painted I don’t want justice, I want mercy.

(1862 – 1952) Australian Prime Minister & politician
Art Entertainment Self