Subject: Entertainment (Page 28)

She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

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

comedian

I told them sandwiches.

(1949 – ) American boxing champion

Only twelve disciples? … Didn't I tell you I want this thing to be big, big, big!

(1906 – 1998) Russian-born English film producer & media mogul

Oh, there's so much nudity on TV, I just sit there shaking my fist.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

It resembles a tortoise shell cat having a fit in a plate of tomatoes.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Inviting her to review one of your pictures is like inviting the Boston Strangler to massage your neck.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer

Last night, me and my girlfriend watched three DVDs back to back… luckily, I was the one facing the telly.

(1967 – ) English actor, writer & comedian

On the TV screen, pure drivel tends to drive off ordinary drivel.

Liking both Marvin Gaye and Art Garfunkel is like supporting both the Israelis and the Palestinians.

(1966 – ) American film actor, producer & screenwriter

These go to 11.

(1948 – ) English-American screenwriter, musician, director & actor

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

(1932 – ) American journalist & film critic

I'm convinced that his voice comes out of his eyelids.

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

I want to be a diva… like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-Diet-Coke-around.

(1980 – ) American singer

Elvis may have been the king of rock 'n' roll, but I am the queen.

Richard Penniman (1932 – ) American singer & pianist

The show which, alas, every actor has to miss is his own memorial service.

(1908 – 1992) English actor

[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses.

(1905 – 1982) American poet, translator & critical essayist

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

(1952 – ) American writer & comedian

Acting: Standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

(1907 – 1976) American actress

If you have watched a TV series only once, and you watch it again, it will be a rerun of the same episode.

I saw a poster for Mission Impossible III the other day. I thought: It’s not impossible if he’s already done it twice.

(1980 – ) English comedian & novelist