Subject: Entertainment (Page 22)

What is this, an audience or an oil painting?

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

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

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

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

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

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

(1939 – ) comedian, actress, writer & producer

I really detest movies like Indecent Proposal and Pretty Woman because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal; and really that’s such a small part of it.

(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer

Get up from that piano; you hurtin' its feelings.

(1885 – 1945) American ragtime pianist, bandleader & composer

[The First Wives Club] had strong American values: divorce, alcoholism, plastic surgery and revenge.

(1945 – ) singer, actress & comedian

Apparently the understudy had to go because of her throat; I suppose someone threatened to cut it.

(1865-1940) English actress

I am thinking it right but beating it wrong.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be… it is what it used to be; that is what's wrong with it.

(1899 – 1973) English playwright, actor, composer, director & songwriter

One nice thing about telling a clean joke is there’s a good chance no one’s heard it before.

(1926 – ) newspaper columnist

Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician

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

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Argentina invaded the Falklands because they had ESPN and the Argentines wanted to get the late scores.

(1931 – 2012) American college football historian & television commentator

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

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

Martha Stewart’s a convicted felon and they gave her another television show… what’s next, the Scott Peterson Fishing Hour?

(1964 – ) American comedian & actor

Abstract Art: The proof that things are not as bad as they are painted to be.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

(1879 – 1974) film producer

A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.

(1894 – 1964) American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright & novelist

It was so beautiful today that I only watched four hours of “Law & Order” in my apartment.

(1982 – ) American comedian, actor, writer & producer

The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.

(1909 – 1986) Australian dancer, actor, theater director & choreographer