Subject: Entertainment (Page 31)

The New Kids on the Block lip-syncing – who gives a damn?… that's like finding out the Muppets didn't sing their own music.

comedian, television writer

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

(1928 – 1987) painter, printmaker & filmmaker

It was so beautiful today that I only watched four hours of “Law & Order” in my apartment.

(1982 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

When I dance, people think I’m looking for my keys.

(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter

The first time I saw you on stage I realized what a wonderful voice you've got; I think you're so brave not to have had it trained.

(1865-1940) English actress

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet

This business is dog eat dog and nobody is gonna eat me.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

Fortissimo at last!

(1860 – 1911) Austrian composer

If your working television sits on top of your non-working television, you might be a redneck.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Mr Lewis’ pictures appeared to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.

(1925 – 2012) author, playwright, essayist & screenwriter

Those who make a distinction between education and entertainment don't know the first thing about either.

(1911 – 1980) Canadian educator, philosopher & scholar

My husband, who hardly ever listens to the radio anymore, has this one on all the time.

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

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist

Berlioz composes by splashing his pen over the manuscript and leaving the issue to chance.

(1810 – 1849) Polish composer & virtuoso pianist

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist

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

(1967 – ) English comedian

For thirty years my act consisted of one joke; and then she died.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

It was Public Art, defined as art that is purchased by experts who are not spending their own personal money.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist