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I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

Bo Diddley

(1928 – 2008) American singer, songwriter & rock and roll pioneer

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say much.

John Wayne

(1907 – 1979) American film actor, director & producer

Acting Entertainment On acting

Someone once told me that every minute a murder occurs, so I don’t want to waste your time, I know you want to go back to work.

Alfred Hitchcock

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer

Conflict Entertainment Film Time Homicide

I think TV is very educational; every time someone turns on a TV, I go in the other room and read.

Groucho Marx

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host

Communication Education Entertainment Reading/Writing Television

Speak clearly, don't bump into the furniture.

Noel Coward

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

Acting Entertainment On his advice about acting

It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver… Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film.

Tina Fey

(1970 – ) American actress, comedian, writer & producer

Acting Entertainment Insults Madonna

Dance like it hurts… love like you need money… work when people are watching.

Scott Adams

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

Dance Emotions Entertainment Work

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

Archie Bunker

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

Entertainment Television

Television Programming: Material that fills the time between commercials.

Anonymous

Definitions Entertainment Television Programming

The problem with women in an orchestra is that if they’re attractive it will upset my players and if they’re not it will upset me.

Thomas Beecham

(1879 – 1961) English conductor

Appearance Entertainment Music People Women Orchestras

Dealing with network executives is like being nibbled to death by ducks.

Eric Sevareid

(1912 – 1992) American news journalist

Entertainment Television Network executives

The opera is like a husband with a foreign title – expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.

Cleveland Amory

(1917 – 1998) author, critic, animal rights activist

Entertainment Music People Challenge Opera

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch; maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.

Bette Davis

(1908 – 1989) American actress of film, television & theater

Entertainment Film Insults Bitches Criticism Joan Crawford

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Isaac Stern

(1920 – 2001) Soviet-born violinist & conductor

Entertainment Music Musicians

I always ask the sitter if they want truth or flattery; they always ask for truth, and I always give them flattery.

Ruskin Spear

(1911 – 1990) English painter

Art Entertainment On painting portraits

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

'Beano' Cook

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

Entertainment Sports Television ESPN

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

‘Grandma’ Moses

Anna Mary Robertson (1860 – 1961) American artist

Art Entertainment Artists Primitive artist

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

Fred Allen

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian

Entertainment Hollywood Places Producers

Playing ‘Bop’ is like ‘Scrabble’ with all the vowels missing.

Duke Ellington

(1899 – 1974) American composer, pianist & bandleader

Entertainment Music Bop

Television is a device that permits people who haven't anything to do to watch people who can't do anything.