Subject: Entertainment (Page 11)

[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses.

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

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

(1900 – 1969) American drama critic & author

You can pick out the actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.

(1912 – 1979) English actor

Anonymous: Is Ringo the best drummer in the world?

Lennon: He’s not even the best drummer in the band.

(1940 – 1980) English rock musician, singer & songwriter

I always thought I'd go to the Oscars, but only as a stalker.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

(1919 – ) American sportswriter

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

Television Programming: Material that fills the time between commercials.

Sex is like art; most of it is pretty bad, and the good stuff is out of your price range.

writer, website creator

If it weren't for the fact that the TV set and the refrigerator are so far apart, some of us wouldn't get any exercise at all.

(1911 – 1999) comedian, author & columnist

If you can imagine a man having a vasectomy without anesthetic to the sound of frantic sitar playing, you will have some idea of what popular Turkish music is like.

American author

I Could Never Have Sex With Any Man Who Has So Little Regard For My Husband

(1936 – ) American author, screenwriter, journalist & playwright

You know you’re getting old when you start watching golf on TV and enjoying it.

(1953 – ) American comedian, actor, voice artist, & columnist

Television is the triumph of machine over people.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Comedy is tragedy plus time!

(1936 – ) American actor, director & screenwriter

Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover.'

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

I hope you go before me because I don’t want you singing at my funeral.

(1918 – 2002) Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet & playwright

What is this, an audience or an oil painting?

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

Acting: Farting about in disguise.

(1932 – 2013) Irish stage & film actor

It's our fault… we should have given him better parts.

(1892 – 1978) Canadian-American film producer (Warner Brothers)

If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author