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Subject:
Entertainment
(Page 33)
Television: A means of getting a babysitter so Mom and Dad can get out to the movies.
Anonymous
Definitions
Entertainment
Television
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.
Laura Kightlinger
(1969 – ) American actress, comedian, producer & writer
Entertainment
Film
Sex
Women
Indecent Proposal
Pretty Woman
First of all, I choose the great [roles], and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.
Michael Caine
(1933 – ) English actor
Acting
Entertainment
Film
Work
Can’t act… slightly bald… also dances.
Anonymous
Acting
Dance
Entertainment
Film studio official’s comment on Fred Astaire
Australia's gift to insomniacs; it's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.
Minnie Riperton
(1947 – 1979) American singer
Entertainment
Insults
Music
Olivia Newton-John
Singing
Many are willing to suffer for their art.. few are willing to learn to draw.
Simon Munnery
(1967 – ) English comedian
Art
Entertainment
Wives are people who feel they don't dance enough.
Groucho Marx
(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Dance
Marriage
Wives
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.
Joan Rivers
(1935 – 2014) American comedian, television personality, writer & director
America
Places
Television
Bed
Shop
Stores
An actor enters through a door, you've got nothing; but if he enters through a window, you've got a situation.
Billy Wilder
(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer
Entertainment
Film
Situations
On directing
A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
(1888 – 1963) Spanish writer & dramatist
Entertainment
Music
Piano stores
Accordian: An instrument inharmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Definitions
Entertainment
Music
Accordian
I’ve performed for twelve presidents… and entertained six.
Bob Hope
(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Entertainment
People
Self
Baptists never make love standing up; they're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing!
Lewis Grizzard Jr.
(1946 – 1994) writer & humorist
Beliefs
Dance
Religion
Sex
Baptists
Sin
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Entertainment
Music
Wind instruments
A buxom temptress… more impressive in silhouette than in action.
Kenneth Tynan
(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer
Acting
Reviews/Criticism
Of actress Yvonne Furneaux
Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy.
Richard M. Nixon
(1913 – 1994) 37th U.S. president
Entertainment
Television
Modesty in an actor is as fake as passion in a call girl.
Jackie Gleason
(1916 – 1987) television actor & comedian
Characteristics
Emotions
Entertainment
Actors
Modesty
You can pick out the actors by the glazed look that comes into their eyes when the conversation wanders away from themselves.
Michael Wilding
(1912 – 1979) English actor
Acting
Characteristics
Entertainment
Actors
Ego
Liking both Marvin Gaye and Art Garfunkel is like supporting both the Israelis and the Palestinians.
John Cusack
(1966 – ) American film actor, producer & screenwriter
Entertainment
Music
TV/Movie Quotes
As Rob Gordon in “High Fidelity”
Timing is not so much knowing when to speak, but when to pause.
Jack Benny
(1894 – 1974) comedian, radio & television host
Entertainment
Comedy
Timing
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t; I don’t know if it’s the way you say it, or how you look.
Dan Quayle
(1947 – ) U.S. vice president & politician
Communication
Entertainment
Misspokements
Television
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Can’t act… slightly bald… also dances.