Subject: Entertainment

Jane Fonda coming back to the screen after a decade-and-a-half absence in Monster-in-Law is like Brando returning from the dead to star in a Police Academy movie.

(1952 – ) American film critic & columnist
Entertainment Film Insults

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

Anna Mary Robertson (1860 – 1961) American artist
Art Entertainment

Gone With the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in Hollywood history; I'm just glad it’ll be Clark Gable who's falling flat on his face and not Gary Cooper.

(1901 – 1961) film actor
Entertainment Film Reviews/Criticism

Remember that show My Three Sons? … it’d be funny if it was called My One Dad.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
Entertainment Television

Bo Derek turned down the role of Helen Keller because she couldn't remember the lines.

(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
Entertainment Insults Memory People

I find his films about as funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.

(1955 – ) English actor
Entertainment Film

The New Kids on the Block lip-syncing – who gives a damn?… that's like finding out the Muppets didn't sing their own music.

comedian, television writer
Entertainment Music

All television is children's television.

advertising expert & editor
Children Entertainment Television

Over a fifteen-year period Jack raised almost $6,000,000 for the benefit of classical music; of course, a lot of people claimed that that was his way of paying for the damage he'd caused it.

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
Entertainment Music

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch; maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.

(1908 – 1989) American actress of film, television & theater
Entertainment Film Insults

Nowadays, the perfect crime is getting caught and then selling your story to TV.

fictional mascot and cover boy of Mad, an American humor magazine
Conflict Crime Entertainment Television

They want to play the blues so badly… and that's how they play it – badly!

American bluesman
Entertainment Insults Music

When having my portrait painted I don’t want justice, I want mercy.

(1862 – 1952) Australian Prime Minister & politician
Art Entertainment Self

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer
Entertainment Film Money

In his bodybuilding days Arnold Schwarzenegger was known as the Austrian Oak; then he started acting and was know as… the Austrian Oak.

(1961 – ) English standup comedian, actor & writer
Acting Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right… he failed.

(1927 – 1989) author, essayist & environmentalist
Music Reviews/Criticism

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

(1880 – 1956) journalist, essayist, editor & satirist
Art Democracy Government Science/Weather

When I dance, people think I’m looking for my keys.

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

Whatever happens, look as if it was intended.

Acting Entertainment Murphy’s Laws Situations

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Entertainment

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician
Emotions Entertainment Laughter People