Subject: Entertainment (Page 17)

I played an unsympathetic part… myself.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor
Acting Entertainment

The notes are right, but if I listened they would be wrong.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist
Entertainment Misspokements Music

Let’s be honest: Isn’t a lot what we call tap dancing really just nerves?

Entertainment Miscellaneous

After seeing the opera Tosca, Yogi remarked, “I really liked it, even the music was nice”

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Music Yogi-isms

English painter & sculptor Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?

Whistler’s reply: My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?

(1834 – 1903) American-born, British-based artist
Communication Entertainment Insults

Once he was introduced as "The man who always steals the show – one joke at a time."

(1896 – 1996) comedian, actor & entertainer
Entertainment

Classical Jazz: Rock of ages.

Definitions Music

I've been doing some extremely abstract paintings… no paint, no canvas; I just think about it.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Art Entertainment Thinking

Jack Benny's ability on the violin was legendary; everybody knew he had none.

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

I went to a karaoke bar last night that didn't play any 70's music…
at first I was afraid, oh I was petrified.

Canadian stand-up comedian, actor & writer
Entertainment

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist
Entertainment Misspokements Music

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

(1924 – 1984) American author
Entertainment Life Reading/Writing

The hardest thing in the world is to start an orchestra, and the next hardest, to stop it.

(1843 – 1916) Hungarian conductor
Entertainment Music

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music.

(1921 – 2009) British composer, pianist and radio & television presenter
Age Entertainment Music

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

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

Elwood: Eh… what kind of music do you usually have here?

Claire: Oh, we got both kinds. We got country and western.

(1941 – ) American actress
Entertainment Music TV/Movie Quotes

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

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

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

(1893 – 1967) writer, humorist & poet
Acting Reviews/Criticism

How can I die, I'm booked.

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

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands – and all you can do is scratch it.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor
Entertainment Insults Music

I played a blank tape on full volume; the mime who lives next door complained.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Entertainment Music Situations