Subject: Entertainment (Page 17)

It's a bunch of guys all playing different songs at the same time.

(1968 – ) American actor & comedian
Entertainment Music

Art is anything you can get away with.

(1928 – 1987) painter, printmaker & filmmaker
Art Entertainment

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

I always ask the sitter if they want truth or flattery; they always ask for truth, and I always give them flattery.

(1911 – 1990) English painter
Art Entertainment

Classical Jazz: Rock of ages.

Definitions Music

Acting: A good training for political life; the only problem is the speeches are harder to learn.

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

Your pocket radio won't pick up the station you want to hear most.

Entertainment Murphy’s Laws

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck.

(1915 – ) American film, television & stage actor
Beliefs Entertainment Opinion

Jazz Musician: A juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Definitions Entertainment Music

If you really want to help the American theater darling, be an audience.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Acting Insults Reviews/Criticism

Accordion: An instrument whose music is long drawn out.

Definitions Entertainment Music Things

You know, I go to the theatre to be entertained… I don’t want to see plays about rape, sodomy and drug addiction… I can get all that at home.

(1937 – 1995) English satirist, writer & comedian
Entertainment

If it’s attention you want, don’t get involved with a man during play-off season.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer
Men People Sports 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

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
Entertainment Music

Bing Crosby sings like all people think they sing in the shower.

(1916 – 1994) American singer
Entertainment Music

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

Sophia Loren plays peasants; I play ladies.

(1927 – ) Italian actress & photojournalist
Acting People Self

You can make a killing in the theater, but not a living.

(1917 – 2009) American playwright, screenwriter & theater producer
Entertainment

First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

(1933 – ) English actor
Acting Entertainment Film Work

This is the method taught in the Elizabeth Hurley school of acting: If you happen to be a vapid idiot, always play one in the movies and audiences will love you for your self-mocking sense of fun.

American film critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism