Subject: Entertainment (Page 17)

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

(1889 – 1977) English comedian, actor & film director
Emotions Entertainment Film Life

Do you realize if it weren't for Edison we'd be watching TV by candlelight?

disc jockey, screenwriter & humorist
Entertainment Television

Rembrandt painted 700 pictures; of these, 3,000 are still in existence.

(1845 – 1929) German art historian & curator
Art Entertainment

Radio is the theater of the mind; television is the theater of the mindless.

(1921 – 2000) comedian, television host, musician, actor & writer
Entertainment Intelligence Television

Many are willing to suffer for their art.. few are willing to learn to draw.

(1967 – ) English comedian
Art Entertainment

The musician who invented Swing ought to.

Communication Entertainment Music

Left eyebrow raised, right eyebrow raised.

(1927 – ) English actor
Acting Entertainment

[Caddyshack] was a six-million-dollar scholarship to film school.

(1944 – 2014) American actor, director & writer
Education Entertainment Film

She has more talent to the square head than anybody I know.

(1908–1960) British film actress
Acting Entertainment Insults

All television is children's television.

advertising expert & editor
Children Entertainment Television

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

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

For a director, a musical is a special kind of hell.

(1931 – 2014) German-born American director, producer, actor & comedian
Entertainment

Timing is not so much knowing when to speak, but when to pause.

(1894 – 1974) comedian, radio & television host
Entertainment

There are only three ages for women in Hollywood – Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

(1945 – ) American actress, film director & producer
Entertainment Hollywood Places

Parsifal is the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock; after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20.

American choral conductor, director, teacher & radio host
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism Time

When I told my mom I wanted to grow up and be a comedian, she said you can’t do both.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor
Entertainment Occupations Work

I used to work for a living, then I became an actor.

(1927 – ) English actor
Acting Entertainment Occupations Work

You know, the only difference between me and a surgeon or a pediatrician is that when I approach a couple with a child and say, ‘I’d like to keep him for a few days and do some bloodwork,’ it’s considered inappropriate.

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer
Doctors Entertainment Health

A composer for one right hand.

(1813 – 1883) German composer, conductor, theatre director & essayist
Entertainment Insults Music

Morality, like art, means a drawing a line someplace.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet
Art Characteristics Entertainment

Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.

(1908 – 1997) German-born teacher, academic & humorist
Acting Entertainment