Subject: Entertainment

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
Entertainment Music

Get up from that piano; you hurtin' its feelings.

(1885 – 1945) American ragtime pianist, bandleader & composer
Entertainment Music

It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it… but occasionally we do.

(1917 – 2010) American singer & actress
Entertainment People Sex Women

You know, you can’t please all the people all the time… and last night, all those people were at my show.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
Characteristics Entertainment People

Orlando Bloom was so wooden he could have played the horse.

Irish film critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title – expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

(1917 – 1998) author, critic, animal rights activist
Entertainment Music People

Shoot a few scenes out of focus; I want to win the foreign film award.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer
Entertainment Film

[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses.

(1905 – 1982) American poet, translator & critical essayist
Art Entertainment

At the Last Supper, how come no one sat at the other side of the table?

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor
Art Entertainment

Blondes make the best victims; they're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer
Appearance Body Entertainment Film

Nine times out of ten in the arts, as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws

George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill: Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend – if you have one.

Churchill’s reply: Impossible to be present for the first performance; will attend second – if there is one.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator
Entertainment Insults People

Not nearly as exciting as it would be if I were acknowledged as one of the greatest lays in the world.

(1925 – 2006) American actress
Acting Entertainment Sex

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author
Dance Entertainment Intelligence Music

A glorified bandmaster.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor
Insults Music

When he was held up by a robber who demanded, "Your money or your life?" Jack's silence while he thought it over was the funniest thing never said on radio.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
Entertainment

The secret of my piano playing is that I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.

(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist
Entertainment Music

Boxing is a great exercise… as long as you can yell 'cut' whenever you want to.

(1946 – ) American actor
Activities Boxing Entertainment Exercise Film Sports

I only know two tunes: one of them is “Yankee Doodle” and the other isn’t.

(1822 – 1885) 18th U.S. president & army general
Entertainment Music

Hey, Alex – You know the really great thing about television? If something important happens, anywhere in the world, night or day… you can always change the channel.

(1938 – ) American actor
Entertainment Television TV/Movie Quotes

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments – the very lower bowel of music.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist
Entertainment Music