Entertainment Quotes

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

Take down those naked pictures of Ernest Borgnine.

Someday I'm gonna be famous. Do I have talent, well, no. These days you really don't need it.

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

Looking at himself, but wishing he was someone else. Because the posters on the wall, they don't look like him at all.

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

Listen not to the critics who put their own dreams on the shelf.

Just once how I'd like to see the headline say, not much to print today, can't find anything bad to say.

Just another point of view, I'm just a reflection of you.

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come.

I've been circling the wagons down at Times Square, trying to fill up this hole in my soul but nothing fits in there.

It's better sometimes when we don't get to touch our dreams.

In this age of fiberglass, I'm searching for a gem.

In my brain all I think about is fame.

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.

I'm not turned on, so put away that meat you're selling.

I'm for turning off the tube and turning down the light, cause I'm for nothing else but me and you tonight.

I'm a fool to keep staying, when you've made hurting me such an art.

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.

I'll ruin everything you are, I'll give you television.

If I could read your mind, what a tale your thoughts could tell. Just like a paperback novel, the kind that drugstores sell.

I'd like to go back to Paris someday and visit the Lourve museum, get a good running start, and hurl myself at the wall.

I wonder who I left behind on the other side of fame.

I wanna get on TV and just let loose. But can't, but it's cool for Tom Green to hump a dead moose.

I wanna be in the headlines, anything to be in the headlines.

Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

Fame, what you like is in the Limo. Fame, what you get is no tomorrow.

Every picture's painted differently, every one has got a vision in their mind. That fills the heart with answers, and the missing piece that we hope to find.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

Do I have to change my name, will it get me far? Should I lose some weight, am I gonna be a star?

Did you ever get the feeling that the story's too damn real?

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips.

I grew up in the New Zealand countryside. We didn't have television until I was 14, so sing-alongs were our only entertainment.

Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

It's not all about acting. It's about giving an art of entertainment to humanity.

There are large numbers of people in India below the poverty line, there are large numbers of people who lead a meager existence. They want to find a little escape from the hardships of life, and come and watch something colorful and exciting and musical. Indian cinema provides that. So yes, the content of our television and our cinema is escapist in nature because we are there to provide entertainment.

I love New York, it's always been my home. It has everything - music, fashion, entertainment, impressive buildings, huge parks, street cafes. And it's very international, with people from all over the world.

Art is difficult. It's not entertainment. There are only a few people who can say something about art - it's very restricted. When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not. Buying art is not understanding art.

Having ones image, and effectively, life, democratized, dehumanizes and sometimes objectifies it into an entertainment product. What sort of valuation of the ego would one have once youve let it been preyed upon by the public for years and years? Perhaps, it becomes truly just skin and bones.

The idea, shared by many, that life is a vale of tears, is just as false as the idea shared by the great majority, the idea to which youth and health and riches incline you, that life is a place of entertainment. Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.

The beautiful people in the magazines, got the normal ones living beyond their means.

Acting is so much fun. It is a different ball game and I want to concentrate on that at the moment. I'm really passionate about what I do. I love entertainment and telling stories to people and I am very lucky that I am doing what I want to do.

The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.

I've always believed my success in the entertainment business is an inevitability. You have to believe that; you have to be an optimist.

In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and celebration are never the same. In celebration you are a participant; in entertainment you are only a spectator. In entertainment you watch others playing for you. So while celebration is active, entertainment is passive. In celebration you dance, while in entertainment you watch someone dancing, for which you pay him.

But libraries are about freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finishes the day we leave school or university), about entertainment, about making safe spaces, and about access to information.