Subject: Entertainment (Page 3)

Even when you are not playing you are holding me back.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

(1932 – 2011) British-American actress

I can’t listen to that much Wagner… I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

(1962 – ) American author & poet

Director: The one who always faces the music.

The musician who invented Swing ought to.

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

(1916 – 1994) American singer

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

(1932 – ) American journalist & film critic

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience

American author

When I die, there will be people who send flowers to Ethel Mertz.

(1902 – 1979) American actor

Piano: A parlor utensil for subduing the impertinent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

The mama of Dada.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host

Meryl Streep is not here tonight, she has the flu… and I hear she’s amazing in it.

(1971 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

Actress Claudette Colbert: I knew these lines backwards last night.

Coward: And that’s just the way you’re saying them this morning.

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

For God's sake, go and tell that young man to take that Rockingham tea service out of his tights.

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

Lots of comedians have people they try to mimic… I mimic my shadow.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

I told Zollie Volchok [Sonics general manager] we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

American basketball player & coach

The Mushroom in Christian Art