Entertaining Quotes - Page 18

• I want more job. I want to die entertaining.

  Kumar Pallana

  Jobs, Want, Dies

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• Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

  Joe Zawinul

  Great Music

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• I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

  Albert Goodwill Spalding

  Player, Balls, Actors

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• I've an irritating chuckle, I've a celebrated sneer,
  I've an entertaining snigger, I've a fascinating leer;
  To everybody's prejudice I know a thing or two;
  I can tell a woman's age in half a minute--and I do

  W. S. Gilbert

  Two, Age, Prejudice

  'Princess Ida' (1884) act 1

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• A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

  Henry F. Ashurst

  Speech, Information, Detached

  "The Silver-Tongued Sunbeam". Time, August 7, 1939.

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• Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Character, Men, Knowing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1912). “Emerson's Complete Works: Society and solitude”

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• The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

  Florence Nightingale

  Party, Mean, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale (2017). “Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale”, p.200, Routledge

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• It's a funny thing with documentary films - you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.

  Jonathan Demme

  Funny Things, Want, Documentary Films

  "I'm Carolyn Parker: Filmmaker Interview with Jonathan Demme". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren't doing anything. Do you have any idea how hard that is? That's how good they were. It's crazy hard to be convincing and real. It's the most subtle, hardest thing there is.

  Jon Lovitz

  Real, Crazy, Play

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• My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at least a bit entertaining.

  Joel McIver

  Style, Way, Academic

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• I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.

  Charles Martin Smith

  Levels, Want, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• There's nothing more fun than entertaining kids.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Fun, Kids

  "Jerry Seinfeld on Bee Movie". Roundtable conversation, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. October 30, 2007.

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• People say to me all the time, "I get my news from your show." And that isn't the way they should get their news. But the choice is not between getting their news the right way and getting their news from my show. The choice is that they won't get any at all unless you give it to them in an entertaining package.

  Bill Maher

  Giving, People, Choices

  "Lite Night with Bill Maher". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1998.

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• I don't want to be pretentious about, "yes, I need to move in to the more dramatic roles and express myself and prove to everyone that I'm capable of doing it," it really isn't that, I think that's a bad reason to choose roles. It's more like, who would I be working with and would they be fun to do and entertaining to watch, is it an interesting story or character.

  Steve Carell

  Fun, Moving, Character

  "Steve Carell Interview CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. July 28, 2011.

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• I loved horror movies, and I loved movies like that - stuff with an anarchy to them, with chaos. Stuff that glorified violence and whatnot. It's not as entertaining now. It effects me now in a way that it didn't then.

  Ken Marino

  Stuff, Way, Anarchy

  Source: collider.com

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• I've never done anything bad. I can't do anything bad. It's got to be professional. It's got to look professional. It's got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader.

  Jack Kirby

  Looks, Purpose, Done

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he's just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that's what I mean.

  John Waters

  Sexy, Stupid, Mean

  Source: www.thehippocollective.com

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• There was about a two-year period at the end of the '60s, when I realized I was in the wrong place and entertaining the wrong people with the wrong material and that I was not being true to myself. I went through a metamorphosis into something more authentic for me, a more authentic stage voice and writing voice.

  George Carlin

  Writing, Years, Two

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• Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.

  Patrick Stewart

  Impact, Years, Acting

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• When entertaining, it's great to wow your guests with an outstanding recipe, but it's also very important to design a menu that's not too demanding of yourself, otherwise everybody will have fun but you. A great appetizer or simpler dish is a good way to work a menu that's delicious but does not impose too much effort or time spent in the kitchen.

  Debi Mazar

  Fun, Effort, Design

  "Debi Mazar's Tuscan-Style Thanksgiving". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. November 21, 2013.

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• I've worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had - and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.

  Johnny Carson

  Kids, Skills, Two

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.

  Emo Philips

  Way, Comic, Minutes

  Source: www.sheckymagazine.com

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• It's also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!

  Andy Andrews

  Book, People, Stories

  "The Noticer Returns Interview". Interview, www.andyandrews.com. October 3, 2013.

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• I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.

  Doc Brown

  Fashion, Able, Honest

  Source: www.comedy.co.uk

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• I just love the subversion of dialogue in sitcoms, stand-up is monologue and that is entertaining for a lot of people but personally I find it a bit trying, which is a weird thing to say as a stand-up! I love people aping normal conversation and twisting it so it becomes hilarious.

  Doc Brown

  People, Trying, Normal

  Source: www.sevenstreets.com

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