Subject: Entertainment (Page 4)

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

(1965 – ) comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer & director
Entertainment

Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director
Entertainment Music

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to The William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

(1931 – ) television newscaster
Music

Art is a jealous mistress and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher
Art Entertainment

When having my portrait painted I don’t want justice, I want mercy.

(1862 – 1952) Australian Prime Minister & politician
Art Entertainment Self

She speaks five languages and can't act in any of them.

(1904 – 2000) English actor, director & producer
Acting Entertainment Insults

I was happy when I fist heard Ronald Reagan was running for the presidency; I’ve always thought, once you’re in show business you should stay in it.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Entertainment

Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

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

If Botticelli were alive today, he’d be working for Vogue.

(1921 – 2004) English actor & author
Art Entertainment

All my shows are great; some of them are bad, but they are all great.

(1906 – 1998) Russian-born English film producer & media mogul
Entertainment Film

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

(1929 – 2005) British actor & comedian
Communication Entertainment Language

This is the method taught in the Elizabeth Hurley school of acting: If you happen to be a vapid idiot, always play one in the movies and audiences will love you for your self-mocking sense of fun.

American film critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

If it's a good script I'll do it; and if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
Entertainment Film Money

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

(1962 – ) American author & poet
Entertainment Places World

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

(1874 – 1963) American poet
Entertainment Situations

U2’s lawyers work pro bono.

Jewish-American stand-up comedian & writer
Entertainment Lawyers Music

Orlando Bloom was so wooden he could have played the horse.

Irish film critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

I don't like sex on television… I keep falling off.


Sex Television

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

(1881 – 1958) American studio executive (Warner Brothers)
Acting Entertainment Film

English Channel: The BBC.

Definitions Entertainment Television

Press agent: How do I get our leading lady's name in your newspaper?
George S. Kaufman: Shoot her.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Communication Entertainment Reading/Writing