Subject: Entertainment

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

(1932 – 2011) British-American actress

If they liked you, they didn’t applaud – they just let you live.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor

What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?

(1911 – 2004) 40th U.S. president & actor

In a way, comedy is like sex… the more noise you hear, the better you think you’re doing.

(1957 – ) American stand-up comedian, actor & screenwriter

Television? … The word is half Latin and half Greek; no good can come of it.

(1846 – 1932) British journalist, publisher & politician

Abstract Art: The proof that things are not as bad as they are painted to be.

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: “Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him.”

(1867 – 1957) Italian conductor

Oh, there's so much nudity on TV, I just sit there shaking my fist.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer

I’m always afraid that somewhere out there, there is one person in the audience that I’m not going to offend!

(1926 – 2017) American stand-up comedian & actor

Fortissimo at last!

(1860 – 1911) Austrian composer

What is this, an audience or an oil painting?

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

There are two reasons why I’m in show business, and I’m standing on both of them.

(1916 – 1973) American actress, dancer, singer & pin-up girl

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

sportswriter

Devotees of awful filmmaking can't go wrong with this one.

movie critic

Timing is not so much knowing when to speak, but when to pause.

(1894 – 1974) comedian, radio & television host

Oh say can you see, by the dawn’s early light. What so proudly we hailed. Of thee I sing.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

How can I die, I'm booked.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer

Acting: Farting about in disguise.

(1932 – 2013) Irish stage & film actor

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there also a dropped hammer.

(1819 – 1900) English art critic, social thinker, poet & artist

I have high-definition television, because I felt the lack of resolution was affecting my ability to solve cases on C.S.I.

(1975 – ) American stand-up comedian & television host