Subject: Entertainment (Page 31)

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more, but how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

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

Piano: A parlor utensil for subduing the impertinent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Definitions Entertainment Music Things

When you are about 35 years old, something terrible always happens to music.

(1921 – 2009) British composer, pianist and radio & television presenter
Age Entertainment Music

I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host
Entertainment Self Television

If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?

(1919 – ) American sportswriter
Entertainment Sports

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Dance Misspokements

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.

(1901 – 1963) American comic actor, writer & director
Entertainment Music

He had delusions of adequacy.

(1913 – 1996) writer & Broadway theater critic
Acting Reviews/Criticism

Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.

(1913 – 1994) 37th U.S. president
Entertainment Television

If a thing isn’t worth saying, you sing it.

(1732 – 1799) French playwright, inventor, musician & diplomat
Entertainment

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

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

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

A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either.

(1973 – ) American comedian
Entertainment

The mama of Dada.

(1904 – 1999) author, editor, radio host
Entertainment

Good art is in the wallet of the beholder.

(1958 – ) Australian author
Art Entertainment Money

I know two kinds of audiences only – one coughing, and one not coughing.

(1882 – 1951) Austrian composer & pianist
Entertainment Music

You might be a redneck if… the most serious loss from the earthquake was your Conway Twitty record collection.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality
Entertainment Music People Rednecks

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

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

An actor enters through a door, you've got nothing; but if he enters through a window, you've got a situation.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer
Entertainment Film

Entertainment is a thing of the past, today we’ve got television.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)
Entertainment Misspokements Television