Subject: Entertainment (Page 2)

The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

(1895 – 1960) American lyricist
Entertainment

There is nothing remarkable about it; all one has to do is to hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

(1685 – 1750) German composer & musician
Entertainment Music

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Entertainment Government Situations

After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: “Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him.

(1867 – 1957) Italian conductor
Entertainment Music

The last time I acted my name was so low on the program that I was getting orders for the printing.

(1926 – 2012) Irish comedian & actor
Acting Entertainment

Never buy a man a plasma TV until you’re married; a lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don’t need a girlfriend.

(1963 – ) American comedian & author
Entertainment Television Things

The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience

American author
Places Television

What makes him think a middle-aged actor, who’s played with a chimp, could have a future in politics?

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

Bad artists always admire each other’s work.

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

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

(1843 – 1916) Hungarian conductor
Entertainment Music

It wasn't that no one asked me to the prom, it was that no one would tell me where it was.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer
Entertainment People Self

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

There's no thief like a bad movie.

(1920 – 2001) American writer & humorist
Entertainment Film

I was doing some musical research, and I found out it was actually white people that came up with rap music… only, they call it square dancing.

(1951 – ) American comedian & writer
Entertainment Music

He was a man who never let his left hip know what his right hip was doing.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
Dance Entertainment

Gandhi was everything the voting members of the Academy would like to be: moral, tan and thin.

(1932 – ) American journalist & film critic
Entertainment Film

Someone came too sooner.

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

In the first movement alone, I took note of six pregnancies and at least four miscarriages.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor
Communication Music Reviews/Criticism

If they liked you, they didn’t applaud – they just let you live.

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

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
Entertainment Music

This is good because up until now, the only channel to find 24-hour coverage of the NFL players was Court TV.

(1963 – ) television host & comedian
Entertainment Football Television