Subject: Entertainment (Page 34)

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

(1945 – ) comedian, actor, writer, playwright & musician
Activities Communication Dance Entertainment Music Speech

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

(1894 – 1964) American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright & novelist
Entertainment Film Intelligence Stupidity

One time I went to a drive-in in a taxi cab… the movie cost me $95.00.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Entertainment Film Money

Acting: Farting about in disguise.

(1932 – 2013) Irish stage & film actor
Acting Entertainment

Mr Lewis’ pictures appeared to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet
Art Reviews/Criticism

The ice cream truck in my neighborhood plays “Helter Skelter.”

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer
Music Situations

I liked your opera… I think I will set it to music.

(1770 – 1827) German composer & pianist
Entertainment Insults Music

I'm not an actor, and I enclose met press cuttings to prove it.

(1915 – 1999) American stage, film & television actor
Acting Occupations Work

I can’t listen to that much Wagner… I start getting the urge to conquer Poland.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Conflict Entertainment Music Places War

My Comedy Channel – Fox News

My News Channel Comedy Central

Entertainment Signs 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

When an opera star sings her head off, she usually improves her appearance.

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

Bad artists always admire each other’s work.

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

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

(1874 – 1963) American poet
Entertainment Situations

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

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

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

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

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

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

Welcome to the Academy Awards or, as it's called at my home, 'Passover.'

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

Remember that show My Three Sons? … it’d be funny if it was called My One Dad.

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

Fortissimo at last!

(1860 – 1911) Austrian composer
Entertainment Music Places

Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

(1856 – 1925) American artist & portrait painter
Art Entertainment Friends People