Subject: Entertainment (Page 25)

No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing.

(1907 – 1973) poet & critic
Entertainment

Fortissimo at last!

(1860 – 1911) Austrian composer
Entertainment Music Places

Dance: The action of moving rhythmically to music with a partner, a skill which a woman possesses naturally, but which a man acquires only for the short time in his young adulthood when he wishes to meet and impress young women, and abandons thereafter due to mysterious knee injuries.

Dance Definitions Entertainment

This might have been good for a picture… except it has too many characters in it.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter
Entertainment Film

Try everything once except incest and folk dancing.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor
Entertainment Life

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer
Entertainment Health Television

I Could Never Have Sex With Any Man Who Has So Little Regard For My Husband

(1936 – ) American author, screenwriter, journalist & playwright
Entertainment Film

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

Entertainment Miscellaneous

Acting is all about big hair and funny props… all the great actors knew it.

(1944 – 2014) American actor, director & writer
Acting Entertainment

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

(1957 – ) English actor, writer, journalist, comedian & film director
Conversation Entertainment Television

Stand-Up [comedy] is a lot like sex; there's a lot of crying involved and I get paid to do it.

(1982 – ) American actress & comedian
Entertainment Money Sex

His approach to the microphone is that of an accused man pleading with a hostile jury.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer
Entertainment Insults

A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Characteristics Entertainment Film

The test of a real comedian is whether you laugh at him before he opens his mouth.

(1882 – 1958) drama critic, editor
Emotions Entertainment Laughter

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Anna Mary Robertson (1860 – 1961) American artist
Art Entertainment

It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Entertainment People Places

The museum boasted owning the original version of Beethoven's unfinished basement.

comedian
Entertainment Music Places

Our comedies are not to be laughed at.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Entertainment Film Misspokements

Anonymous: Is Ringo the best drummer in the world?

Lennon: He’s not even the best drummer in the band.

(1940 – 1980) English rock musician, singer & songwriter
Entertainment Music

Gandhi was everything the voting members of the Academy would like to be: moral, tan and thin.

(1932 – ) American journalist & film critic
Entertainment Film

The last time I acted my name was so low on the program that I was getting orders for the printing.

(1926 – 2012) Irish comedian & actor
Acting Entertainment