Subject: Entertainment (Page 28)

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.

(1812 – 1870) English novelist
Art Entertainment

If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist
Art Communication Entertainment Reading/Writing

Thou shalt not steal – only from other comedians.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Entertainment

He must have made it before he died.

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

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

(1852 – 1933) author, educator & clergyman
Music Reviews/Criticism

English Channel: The BBC.

Definitions Entertainment Television

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

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

People like to hear me say 'shit' in my gorgeous voice.

(1904 – 2000) English actor, director & producer
Acting Entertainment People Self

I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings… Boy With Pail… Kitten On Fire.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Entertainment

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

(1908–1960) British film actress
Acting Entertainment Insults

The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

(1909 – 2000) Danish-born comedian & pianist
Entertainment Music Things

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

Art Definitions Entertainment

You ever look for the remote control and can’t find it, so you just decide, ‘Ah, it looks like I’m not watching TV.”

(1966 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor
Entertainment Television

The one function that TV news performs very well is that, when there is no news, we give it you with the same emphasis as if there were.

(1920 – 2003) American television newscaster
Entertainment Television

Marriage is like having cable with one channel.

(Nathaniel Stroman) (1963 – ) American actor, voice artist & comedian
Entertainment Marriage Television

They're not understudies, they're overstudies.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Acting Entertainment

I have no problem not listening to The Temptations.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian
Entertainment Music

Composers shouldn't think too much—it interferes with their plagiarism.

(1896 – 1983) American actor
Communication Entertainment Music Reading/Writing

They want to play the blues so badly… and that's how they play it – badly!

American bluesman
Entertainment Insults Music

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

(1886 – 1963) literary critic, biographer & historian
Insults Music Reading/Writing

Like two skeletons copulating on a corrugated tin roof.

(1879 – 1961) English conductor
Entertainment Music