Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.
Marilyn MonroeI was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.
Steven WrightThe art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.
Benjamin FranklinI would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
Walt DisneyI want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.
Jackie ChanWe started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.
Mark ZuckerbergI have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.
Lana Del ReyI did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.
Bob UeckerWe participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.
Aldous HuxleyWriters are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
John SteinbeckPeople get a kick out of my stupidity.
Dolly PartonI can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.
George BestThe celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.
Anthony BourdainI love Steve Carell.
Dwayne JohnsonMan, I really like Vegas.
Elvis PresleyI like my fair share of board games.
Sunil ChhetriWill the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.
John LennonThe best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.
Madeleine AlbrightAnybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!
Nipsey HussleIn the end, everything is a gag.
Charlie ChaplinPolitics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank ZappaI enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.
Lando NorrisMovies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.
Charlie ChaplinI’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
Lana Del ReyWhen I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.
Adam SandlerA lot of people think I’m a comedian.
Dolly PartonThe one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.
Kevin HartI want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.
DJ KhaledMy music is a luxury.
Lana Del ReyIn ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.
Clint EastwoodNothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Blaise PascalI always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.
Steven WrightMost of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.
Adam SandlerWhen it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.
David BowieMovies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.
Clint EastwoodWe are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.
Walt DisneyI don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.
Adam SandlerAre we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.
David HareI love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.
Stephen KingI’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.
Denzel WashingtonI prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
Karl LagerfeldMy opinion can be completely different after a show.
Karl LagerfeldDiana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.
Beyonce KnowlesFor some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.
Erma BombeckWhen Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.
Colin PowellI don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.
Steven WrightI work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.
Denzel WashingtonI like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
Anthony HopkinsMen don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.
Jerry SeinfeldI learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
Elvis PresleyIf my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.
Woody AllenI think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
Jackie ChanI am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.
George LucasWriters and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.
Margaret AtwoodI spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.
Margaret AtwoodI never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
David ByrneI’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.
Keanu ReevesThe sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.
George LucasI love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.
Ernest HemingwayThe movie business is a big gamble.
Jackie Chan