Subject: Entertainment (Page 35)

The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited.

(1895 – 1960) American lyricist
Entertainment

What is a harp but an over-sized cheese-slicer with cultural pretensions?

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter
Entertainment Music

Shut up Arnold, or I’ll direct this play the way you wrote it!

(1925 – 1990) English theatre, opera & film director
Entertainment

I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw  at me.

(1903 – 2003) English-born American comedian & actor
Entertainment Food/Drink

The movie people would have nothing to do with me until they heard me speak in a Broadway play, then they all wanted to sign me for the silent movies.

(1880 – 1946) comedian, actor, juggler & writer
Acting Communication Entertainment Film Speech

It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Entertainment People Places

It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.

(1957 – ) English novelist, essayist & screenwriter
Entertainment Music Relationships

Television: A medium; so called because it is neither rare nor well done.

(1919 – 1962) American comedian, actor & writer
Entertainment Television

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.

(1962 – ) American author & poet
Entertainment Places World

Television has raised writing to a new low.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Communication Entertainment Misspokements Reading/Writing Television

You know I'm the only Iraqi comedian… yeah true… at least that makes us three more than Germany.

(1965 – ) British-Iranian comedian, actor & writer
Entertainment Occupations People Places Work

The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself.

(1919 – 2001) American film critic
Communication Entertainment

Comedy is the blues for people who can’t sing.

(1965 – ) comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer & director
Entertainment

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theater unless he or she has bronchitis.

(1877 – 1947) British diarist & critic
England Entertainment Places

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

(1899 – 1985) Hungarian-born conductor & violinist
Entertainment Misspokements Music

I don't make jokes… I just watch the government and report the facts.

(1879 – 1935) humorist & social commentator
Entertainment Government

The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.

(1925 – 2008) American actor, director & entrepreneur
Entertainment Film Money

Karaoke: Japanese for “Drunk with Microphone.”

Definitions Entertainment

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist
Entertainment

Television Programming: Material that fills the time between commercials.

Definitions Entertainment

If you really want to help the American theater darling, be an audience.

(1903 – 1968) movie actress
Acting Insults Reviews/Criticism