Subject: Entertainment (Page 5)

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

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)
Dance Emotions Entertainment Work

I don’t think he could direct his nephew to the bathroom.

(1937 – ) American film & television actress, director, screenwriter & producer
Entertainment Film Insults

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn’t have to go to an osteopath, then there’s something wrong.

(1955 – ) English conductor
Entertainment Music

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

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

Accordion: An instrument whose music is long drawn out.

Definitions Entertainment Music Things

Television has brought back murder into the home – where it belongs.

(1899 – 1980) English filmmaker & producer
Entertainment Television

An actor enters through a door, you've got nothing; but if he enters through a window, you've got a situation.

(1906 – 2002) Austrian journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter & producer
Entertainment Film

The Complete Law and Order boxed set is now available for only $300; the perfect gift for someone unaware of the existence of USA Network.

American comedian
Entertainment Television

At dramatic rehearsals, the only author that's better than an absent one is a dead one.

(1889 – 1961) Am. playwright, theater director & producer & humorist
Entertainment

Agent: Someone who believes an actor takes 85 percent of his money.

Acting Definitions Entertainment

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

(1932 – 2011) British-American actress
Entertainment

[Art is] the reasoned derangement of the senses.

(1905 – 1982) American poet, translator & critical essayist
Art Entertainment

Parsifal is the kind of opera that starts at six o'clock; after it has been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20.

American choral conductor, director, teacher & radio host
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism Time

She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good at being short.

(1939 – ) Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet & memoirist
Acting Reviews/Criticism

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

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

I know this music from memory, not from the music.

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

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

(1910 – 1993) editor & novelist
Entertainment Television

Art is a jealous mistress and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

(1803 – 1882) essayist, poet, & philosopher
Art Entertainment

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck.

(1915 – ) American film, television & stage actor
Beliefs Entertainment Opinion

He was a man who never let his left hip know what his right hip was doing.

(1881 – 1975) English writer & humorist
Dance Entertainment

When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as if the strings are still in the cat.

(1894 – 1956) American radio comedian
Animals Cats Entertainment Music