Entertainment Quotes - Page 6

• It's very easy to confuse Sean Connery with James Bond. Sometimes in the entertainment industry, people believe the cake is more real than the baker.

  Judd Nelson

  Real, Believe, Cake

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whoever you pretend to be, you must face yourself eventually.

  Al Stewart

  Art, Media, Uprising

  Song: Last Days Of The Century, 1988

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• A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Sports, Careers

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• The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.

  George Ade

  Teacher, Art, Bridges

  "Ade's Fables". Book by George Ade, 1914.

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• You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.

  Aubrey O'Day

  The End Of The Day, Ends, Curtains

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• We are Hollywood. We're entertainment, and that's what the World Wrestling Federation is all about.

  Vince McMahon

  Wrestling, Hollywood, World

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• I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it.

  Jack Kirby

  Mtv, Elements, Admirer

  Interview with Leonard Pitts, Jr., kirbymuseum.org. 1986/1987.

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• I guess entertainment means blatantly lyin'

  Nas

  Mean

  Song: Nasty, Album: Life Is Good, 2012

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• The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way.

  Gregory Hines

  Way, Honest, Speak

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• I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

  Gus Van Sant

  Drama, Interesting, Different

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• I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Moving, People, Inspire

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• I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Understanding, Curiosity

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• The entertainment industry is encouraging young people to defy and deceive their parents.

  Mike DeWine

  Hype, People, Parent

  "Lawmakers, health professionals blast entertainment industry for marketing adult material to children" By Ian Christopher McCaleb, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2000.

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• We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

  Michael Eisner

  Technology, Technological Change, Hollywood

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• Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Peace, War, Military

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.202, University of Georgia Press

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• All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but, what never fails to excite resentment, an insolent assertion of superiority, and a triumph over less enlightened understandings. The pedant is, therefore, not only heard with weariness but malignity; and those who conceive themselves insulted by his knowledge never fail to tell with acrimony how injudiciously it was exerted.

  Samuel Johnson

  Understanding, Triumph, Acrimony

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.196

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• It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work.

  Delta Burke

  New York, Stars, People

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• Why did I decide to become an actor ? I decided because my brother helped me decide. I knew nothing about the entertainment industry, and never thought I actually would. I never had an interest in it. I grew up not watching many movies or rarely watching TV.

  George Stults

  Brother, Tvs, Watching Tv

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause

  Claude C. Hopkins

  Writing, People, Trying

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• That's not writing, that's typing

  Truman Capote

  Art, Writing, Comeback

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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• Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

  Wynn Bullock

  Creativity, Design, Joy

  Wynn Bullock, Raphael Shevelev (1993). “The enchanted landscape: photographs 1940-1975”, Aperture

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• The VIP area, which is geared to live entertainment, is a black-lit stage with a neon painting resembling New York City on the walls. It's supposed to resemble New York City, ... Look, we even have the Twin Towers on there.

  Mike Wells

  New York, Wall, Cities

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• The show has brought a lot of pleasure and entertainment to an entire generation of Baby Boomers and now their own teens who watch the show on cable.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Baby, Boys, Watches

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• I always said I was never gonna be an entertainer, Suicide was never supposed to be entertainment.

  Alan Vega

  Suicide, Said, Entertainers

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• I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

  Martin Yan

  Teacher, Business, Cooking

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