Subject: Entertainment (Page 36)

Then we figured out we could just park them in front of the TV; that's how I was raised and I turned out TV.

cartoon character in The Simpsons (Dan Castellaneta)

No… but I have trodden in some.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

Anything too stupid to be said is sung.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist

If you really want to help the American theater darling, be an audience.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress

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

(1908 – 1970) American professor of psychology

I'm not an actor, and I enclose met press cuttings to prove it.

(1915 – 1999) American stage, film & television actor

If Attila the Hun were alive today, he'd be a drama critic.

(1928 – ) playwright

Entertainment is a thing of the past, today we’ve got television.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Art, like morality, consists in drawing a line somewhere.

(1874 – 1936) English author & mystery novelist

Everyone tries to get you to dance at clubs; and then I dance, and they’re like ‘not like that!’

(1978 – ) American comedian & writer

A glorified bandmaster.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don’t need.

(1840 – 1917) French sculptor

One can’t judge Wagner’s opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don’t intend hearing it a second time.

(1792 – 1868) Italian composer

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

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

Chozen is a truly bizarre blend of programming as it mixes prison and rap culture with Revenge of the Nerds.

film reviewer

Nobody can ever learn our military's secrets — unless, you know, they happen to have the Discovery Channel… then, it's pretty easy, just tune in for a few minutes.

(1974 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor

Actors die so loud.

(1891 – 1980) novelist & painter

When I told my mom I wanted to grow up and be a comedian, she said you can’t do both.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

(1897 – 1972) broadcast journalist & gossip columnist

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

(1867 – 1959) architect, interior designer, writer & educator