Subject: Entertainment (Page 3)

There's no thief like a bad movie.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist
Entertainment Film

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Entertainment Music

What do you want me to do … stop shooting now and release it as The Five Commandments?

(1881 – 1959) American film director & producer
Entertainment Film

Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Acting Entertainment Reviews/Criticism Wordplay

It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.

(1957 – ) English novelist, essayist & screenwriter
Entertainment Music Relationships

Nine times out of ten in the arts, as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

(1908 – 1970) American professor of psychology
Art Entertainment Food/Drink

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

(1924 – 1984) American author
Entertainment Life Reading/Writing

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist
Characteristics Entertainment Opinion

If she was cast as Lady Godiva the horse would steal the show.

Acting Entertainment Insults

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

(1936 – ) television talk show host
Entertainment Money People Television

Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Art Definitions

You might be a redneck if… your stereo speakers used to belong to the Moonlight Drive-in Theater.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality
Entertainment Music People Rednecks

I’ve performed for twelve presidents… and entertained six.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Entertainment People Self

Many are willing to suffer for their art.. few are willing to learn to draw.

(1967 – ) English comedian
Art Entertainment

Karaoke: Japanese for “Drunk with Microphone.”

Definitions Entertainment

Television? … The word is half Latin and half Greek; no good can come of it.

(1846 – 1932) British journalist, publisher & politician
Entertainment Television

Man: Mr. Melon, your wife was just showing us her Klimt [an Austrian painter].

Thornton Melon: You too, huh? She’s shown it to everybody.

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor
Art TV/Movie Quotes

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Appearance Body Dance People

When will I learn? The answer to life’s problems aren’t at the bottom of a bottle, they’re on TV!

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)
Television TV/Movie Quotes