Subject: Entertainment (Page 20)

The titles are listed on the movie theater marquis.

Entertainment Malaprops

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

(1890 – 1937) author
Activities Alcohol Dance

The man who can’t dance thinks the band is no good.

Dance Proverbs Reviews/Criticism

If more than ten per cent of the population likes a painting, it should be burned, for it must be bad.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Art Entertainment

Quartet: Four men, all of whom think that the other three can’t sing.

Definitions Entertainment

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

(1934 – 1982) English writer, comedian & actor
Entertainment

Art is long and life is short; here is evidently the explanation of a Brahms symphony.

Insults Music

When I die, there will be people who send flowers to Ethel Mertz.

(1902 – 1979) American actor
Acting Entertainment

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

(1932 – 2011) British-American actress
Entertainment

If it wasn't for white people, who would play lead guitar?

(1954 – ) American actress & comedian
Entertainment Music People

No, no… Jimmy Stewart for governor… Ronald Reagan for his best friend.

(1892 – 1978) Canadian-American film producer (Warner Brothers)
Entertainment Film People Situations

If you're watchin' a parade, make sure you stand in one spot, don't follow it, it never changes.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
Entertainment Situations

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

(1867 – 1959) architect, interior designer, writer & educator
Entertainment Television

I enjoy using the comedy technique of self-deprecation – but I’m not very good at it.

Scottish comedian
Entertainment

I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw  at me.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Entertainment Food/Drink

A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either.

(1973 – ) American comedian
Entertainment

A musical is a series of catastrophes ending with a floor show.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor
Entertainment

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there also a dropped hammer.

(1819 – 1900) English art critic, social thinker, poet & artist
Entertainment 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

The original Mickey Mouse cartoon was in Mouse, with English subtitles.

comedian
Communication Entertainment Language

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

(1927 – ) English actor
Acting Entertainment