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Never do card tricks for the group you play poker with.
Steven Wright
(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Entertainment
Card tricks
A body at rest tends to watch television.
Smith’s Fourth Law of Inertia
Entertainment
Murphy’s Laws
Television
C. Guy Smith
Acting: A good training for political life; the only problem is the speeches are harder to learn.
Ronald Reagan
(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor
Acting
Entertainment
Occupations
The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
Pablo Picasso
(1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker & stage designer
Art
Entertainment
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Communication
Entertainment
Wordplay
Criticism
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
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
(1867 – 1959) architect, interior designer, writer & educator
Entertainment
Television
Hell is a half-filled auditorium.
Robert Frost
(1874 – 1963) American poet
Entertainment
Situations
Hell
Performance
Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali; he was using a dotted line… he caught every other fish.
Steven Wright
(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Activities
Art
Fishing
Salvador Dali
Erin Brockovich
Screwed
My Dog Skip
Sign
Entertainment
Film
Signs
On a theater marquee
I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings… Boy With Pail… Kitten On Fire.
Steven Wright
(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Entertainment
Art museums
One time I went to a drive-in in a taxi cab… the movie cost me $95.00.
Steven Wright
(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Entertainment
Film
Money
Taxi cabs
If you really want to help the American theater darling, be an audience.
Tallulah Bankhead
(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Acting
Insults
Reviews/Criticism
To a young actress
Over a fifteen-year period Jack raised almost $6,000,000 for the benefit of classical music; of course, a lot of people claimed that that was his way of paying for the damage he'd caused it.
George Burns
(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
Entertainment
Music
Charity
Jack Benny
I wanted to make it really special on Valentine's Day, so I tied my boyfriend up… and for three solid hours I watched whatever I wanted on TV.
Tracy Smith
American comedian
Entertainment
Television
Valentine's Day
Never look at the trombones; you’ll only encourage them.
Richard Strauss
(1864 – 1949) German composer
Entertainment
Music
Conducting
Trombones
It resembles a tortoise shell cat having a fit in a plate of tomatoes.
Mark Twain
Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Art
Reviews/Criticism
On painter J. M. W. Turner's ‘The Slave Ship'
I know this music from memory, not from the music.
Eugene Ormandy
(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist
Entertainment
Memory
Misspokements
Music
The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.
Samuel Goldwyn
(1879 – 1974) film producer
Entertainment
Film
Misspokements
So tonight, enjoy yourselves because nothing can take the sting out of the world’s economic problems like watching millionaires present each other with golden statues.
Billy Crystal
(1948 – ) comedian, actor, writer, producer & film director
Entertainment
t Academy Award ceremony
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.
Shirley MacLaine
(1934 – ) American actress, dancer, activist & author
Acting
Entertainment
Film
Hookers
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