Subject: Entertainment (Page 24)

A body at rest tends to watch television.

Real country music is lying on the floor with that bottle of Jack Daniel's by your side 'cause a woman's gone and walked across your heart like a Samoan man in golf shoes.

(1954 – ) American comedian, writer & musician

Boxing is a great exercise… as long as you can yell 'cut' whenever you want to.

(1946 – ) American actor

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more, but how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

(1909 – 2000) Danish-born comedian & pianist

You might be a redneck if… your down where you come from reruns of Hee Haw are called documentaries.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

I can’t watch TV longer than five minutes without praying for nuclear holocaust.

(1961 – 1994) comedian

I was doing some musical research, and I found out it was actually white people that came up with rap music… only, they call it square dancing.

(1951 – ) American comedian & writer

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

(1946 – ) American actress & activist

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

(1973 – ) American comedian

Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

(David John Moore Cornwell) (1931 – ) British author

The scene is dull; tell him to put more life into his dying.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

The Venus de Milo is a good example of what happens to somebody who won't stop biting her fingernails.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator

The people who gave us golf and called it a game are the same people who gave us bag pipes and called it music.

I don’t own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars and that's a luxury I cannot afford.

(1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker & stage designer

Can’t act… slightly bald… also dances.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

The Catholic Church is still very angry about The Da Vinci Code… they don’t like anything that makes more money in a weekend than they do.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

I hate music, especially when it's played.

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

I do not see plays, because I can nap at home for free.

(1934 – ) American actress, dancer, activist & author

I'm a hard act to follow, because when I'm done, I take the microphone with me

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian