Subject: Entertainment (Page 32)

My father originated the limbo dance… trying to get into a pay toilet.

(1921 – 1995) American comedian & actor
Dance Entertainment

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

(1821 – 1867) French poet, essayist & art critic
Animals Cats Insults Music

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Art Democracy Government Science/Weather

Someone came too sooner.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist
Entertainment Misspokements Music

Marriage is like having cable with one channel.

(Nathaniel Stroman) (1963 – ) American actor, voice artist & comedian
Entertainment Marriage Television

Alison Skipworth: You forget I’ve been an actress for forty years.

West: Don’t worry dear, I’ll keep your secret.

(1893 – 1980) actress, playwright, screenwriter & sex symbol
Acting Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

Abstract Art: The proof that things are not as bad as they are painted to be.

Art Definitions Entertainment

He had delusions of adequacy.

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Hey, Alex – You know the really great thing about television? If something important happens, anywhere in the world, night or day… you can always change the channel.

(1938 – ) American actor
Entertainment Television TV/Movie Quotes

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music?

(1813 – 1883) German composer, conductor, theatre director & essayist
Entertainment Insults Music

My husband went to Radio Shack and got some dog ears for the TV.

Malaprops Television

Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

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

Television: A watching machine.

Entertainment Television

I got kicked out of Riverdance for using my arms.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Dance Entertainment

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

(1934 – 1982) English writer, comedian & actor
Entertainment

She comes on stage as if she had been sent for to sew rings on the new curtains.

(1865-1940) English actress
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Even Bach comes down to the basic suck, blow, suck, suck, blow.

(1914 – 2001) musician, harmonica player
Entertainment Music

The prize on that show: another contestant.

(1963 – ) Canadian writer, actor & stand-up comedian
Entertainment Television

I don't know what was wrong with my television last night, but I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station, and I actually bought a congressman.

(1951 – ) American comedian & writer
Congress Entertainment Government Politicians Television

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes; art is knowing which ones to keep.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)
Art Entertainment Intelligence

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Beliefs Music People