Subject: Entertainment (Page 4)

After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music?

(1813 – 1883) German composer, conductor, theatre director & essayist
Entertainment Insults Music

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

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

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist
Entertainment Government Situations

The trouble with this business is the dearth of bad pictures.

(1879 – 1974) film producer
Entertainment Film Misspokements

Dictum on television scripts: We don't want it good – we want it Tuesday.

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter
Communication Entertainment Reading/Writing Television

If you must keep groaning, please try to do it in a rhythm I can dance to.

(1933 – ) English author & cartoonist
Communication Dance Speech

A piano store looks like a funeral parlor for music.

(1888 – 1963) Spanish writer & dramatist
Entertainment Music

Acting is all about big hair and funny props… all the great actors knew it.

(1944 – 2014) American actor, director & writer
Acting Entertainment

Jazz is not dead, it just smells funny.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director
Entertainment Music

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.

(1923 – 1964) Irish poet, short story writer, novelist & playwright
Beliefs Entertainment Opinion

The titles are listed on the movie theater marquis.

Entertainment Malaprops

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

(1890 – 1969) 34th U.S. president, U.S. Army General
Entertainment Television

Fiddle: An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Animals Definitions Music

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

(1835 – 1902) English composer, author & satirist
Entertainment

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

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

Television: A watching machine.

Entertainment Television

To Raoul Walsh a tender love scene is burning down a whorehouse.

(1892 – 1978) Canadian-American film producer (Warner Brothers)
Acting Entertainment

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

(1952 – ) American writer & comedian
Communication Emotions Entertainment Laughter

There is nothing remarkable about it; all one has to do is to hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

(1685 – 1750) German composer & musician
Entertainment Music

Acting: Standing up naked and turning around very slowly.

(1907 – 1976) American actress
Acting Entertainment

At the Last Supper, how come no one sat at the other side of the table?

(1955 – ) American stand-up comedian & actor
Art Entertainment