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I like Wagner's music better than any other music; it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without people hearing what one says.
Oscar Wilde
(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Insults
Music
From “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
On composer Richard Wagner
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries
(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist
Entertainment
Television
Radio
Our comedies are not to be laughed at.
Samuel Goldwyn
(1879 – 1974) film producer
Entertainment
Film
Misspokements
Comedy
Oxymorons
Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.
Joan Rivers
(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
Entertainment
Insults
Memory
People
Bo Derek
Many years ago I remember a famous actress explaining to me with perfect seriousness that before making an entrance she always stood aside to allow God to go on first; I can also remember that on that particular occasion He gave a singularly uninspired performance.
Noel Coward
(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter
Acting
People
Reviews/Criticism
It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art; now we have something to look down on.
Billy Wilder
(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer
Entertainment
Television
I wanted to make it really special on Valentine's Day, so I tied my boyfriend up… and for three solid hours I watched whatever I wanted on TV.
Tracy Smith
American comedian
Entertainment
Television
Valentine's Day
The last time I acted my name was so low on the program that I was getting orders for the printing.
Frank Carson
(1926 – 2012) Irish comedian & actor
Acting
Entertainment
Billing
Opera has made me consider suicide.
Fred Willard
(1939 – American actor, comedian & writer
Entertainment
Opera
These go to 11.
Christopher Guest
(1948 – ) English-American screenwriter, musician, director & actor
Entertainment
Music
TV/Movie Quotes
As Nigel Tufnel in “This Is Spinal Tap”
Going “one louder” on their amplifiers
Volume
I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.
Judy Garland
(1922 – 1969) American singer & actor
Entertainment
People
Self
Childhood
On life as a child star
She ought to be arrested for loitering in front of an orchestra.
Bette Midler
(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian
Entertainment
Insults
About Helen Reddy
Performing
Singing
One time, my own father caught me watching a porno movie… the one thing you don’t want to hear in that situation is, ‘Son, move over.’
Dave Attell
(1965 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host
Entertainment
Family
Fathers
Sex
Pornography
A wide screen just makes a bad film twice as bad.
Samuel Goldwyn
(1879 – 1974) film producer
Characteristics
Entertainment
Film
Bad
Wide screen
All music is folk music; I ain’t never heard no horse sing a song.
Louis Armstrong
(1901 – 1971) American jazz trumpeter and singer
Entertainment
Music
Folk music
Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.
Josh Billings
(1818 – 1885) humorist
Arms
Entertainment
Music
Savage Beast
MTV is to music as KFC is to chicken.
Lewis Black
(1948 – ) stand-up comedian, actor, author & playwright
Entertainment
Music
Television
MTV
Paranoia is a bad personality trait for a comedian; what are you laughing at?
Danny Bhoy
(1974 – ) Scottish comedian
Characteristics
Entertainment
Comedians
Paranoia
You know, the only difference between me and a surgeon or a pediatrician is that when I approach a couple with a child and say, ‘I’d like to keep him for a few days and do some bloodwork,’ it’s considered inappropriate.
Laura Kightlinger
(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer
Doctors
Entertainment
Health
Bloodwork
Comedy profession
Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent.
Fred Allen
(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian
Entertainment
Success
Celebrity
Ed Sullivan
Talent
Stand-Up [comedy] is a lot like sex; there's a lot of crying involved and I get paid to do it.
Whitney Cummings
(1982 – ) American actress & comedian
Entertainment
Money
Sex
Crying
Stand-up comedy
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