Subject: Entertainment (Page 37)

Over a fifteen-year period Jack raised almost $6,000,000 for the benefit of classical music; of course, a lot of people claimed that that was his way of paying for the damage he'd caused it.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

[Katherine Hepburn] is not a great actress, but one with a certain distinction which, with training, might possibly take the place of great acting in an emergency.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

I don’t like my music, but what is my opinion against that of millions of others.

(1904 – 1988) Austrian-American composer

Every child is an artist; the problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

(1881 – 1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker & stage designer

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

(1881 – 1959) American film director & producer

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

Sex is like art; most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.

writer, website creator

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer

Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.

(1852 – 1917) English actor & theater manager

The hula dance is simple: you put some grass on one hip, some more grass on the other hip, and then you rotate the crops.

Television is a medium because anything well done is rare.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal; and really that’s such a small part of it.

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

All music is folk music; I ain’t never heard no horse sing a song.

(1901 – 1971) American jazz trumpeter and singer

Comedy is tragedy plus time!

(1936 – ) American actor, director & screenwriter

Jazz: Music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles.

(1852 – 1933) author, educator & clergyman

I have no problem not listening to The Temptations.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Gone With the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history; I'm just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his face and not Gary Cooper.

(1901 – 1961) film actor

You might be a redneck if… you think 'N Sync is where the dirty dishes go.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

(1928 – 2009) American television writer, playwright, screenwriter & author

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

(1694 – 1778) French author, humanist & satirist