Waiting for opportunities in the entertainment industry is an impossibility; they are not coming. You have to make your own. – Thomas Lennon
Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning.
– Herbert Marcuse
We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
– Tony Robbins
People love gossip. It’s the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.
– Ellen DeGeneres
Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment
– Neal Stephenson
Entertainment and information work well together
– Marvin Sapp
Your worst humiliation is only someone else’s momentary entertainment
– Karen Crockett
People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point
– George Carlin
I don’t care if people don’t like me. I wasn’t put on this Earth to entertain anyone.
Entertainment is temporary happiness, but the real happiness is permanent entertainment.
– Amit Kalantri
People are fed up of movies and video games, now their real-time entertainment is to play with human emotions.
– P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar
Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.
– Douglas Coupland
I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment
– William Shakespeare
It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment.
– John Henry Anderson
Entertainment and art are not isolated.
Entertainment is all right, but entertainment with an idea behind it is much more important
– Gregory Peck
Entertainment for entertainment’s sake is the most expensive form of death…
– Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
– George Harrison
Journalism is the entertainment business.
– Frank Herbert
We aren’t in an information age, we are in an entertainment age
What do you actually need- Food, clothing and shelter. Everything else is entertainment.
– Aloe Blacc
That’s what music is entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.
– Kurt Cobain
Youngsters are the most discerning audience. They want entertainment, they want issues.
– Shah Rukh Khan
Music is escapism, it’s entertainment
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
– Avery Brundage
Entertainment is oft a form of gentle deceit.
Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome
– T.S. Eliot
Facebook becomes 100 times more entertaining when you have work to do.
– Hussein Nishah
In a cruel and evil world, being cynical can allow you to get some entertainment out of it
– Daniel Waters
A song is communicating with people. Entertainment is a different area.
My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
– Dwayne Johnson
I’m in the entertainment business, where you’re only as good as your last show
– Matthew Weiner
Entertainment is in art like color in pictures.
People have romantic notions about television. In the highest realms they think it’s some sort of art medium, and it’s not. Others think it’s an entertainment medium, it’s not that either. It’s an advertising medium. It’s a method to deliver advertising like a cigarette is a method to deliver nicotine.
– Bill Maher
Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing
– Shigeru Miyamoto
The less power a church has, the more entertainment it has
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment
– Dave Barry
Conservation must become before recreation.
– Prince Charles
Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age
– Jeremy Collier
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.
– John Berger
I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.
– Sunny Deol
My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.
– Dwayne Johnson
It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ”culture.”
– John Cage
The best entertainment speaks to the human condition in an honest way
Creating a wonderful drama is an art form, while comedy is just entertainment.
– Jason Reitman
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you’re an idiot.
– Steve Martin
Americans don’t spend billions for entertainment. They spend it in search of entertainment.
Las Vegas is the boiling pot of entertainment.
– Don Rickles
Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.
– Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
– Mary Worley Montagu
I never called my work an ‘art’. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
– Walt Disney
Entertainment is business: the business of f*cking art in the face.
– Eugene Mirman
I have noticed that what cats most appreciate in a human being is not the ability to produce food, which they take for granted – but his or her entertainment value
– Geoffrey Household
Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texas – finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
– Molly Ivins
To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about
– John Waters
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
– Rita Mae Brown
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it.
– Orson Welles
Nothing contributes to the entertainment of the reader more, than the change of times and the vicissitudes of fortune.
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
– Frank Zappa
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.
– David Ogilvy
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
– Rita Mae Brown
Entertainment is such a great job to have
Ive done a variety of projects in different areas of the entertainment industry
I prefer truth-based entertaining idealism.
– Toba Beta
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment
– Terry Brooks
We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.
– Pete Carroll
Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you.
– Tommy Steele
The Rock is without a doubt THE most electrifying man in sports entertainment today!
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
– W.H. Auden
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.
– Erica Jong
Entertainment is the devil’s substitute for joy
The entertainment industry is terrified of silence
Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke
Television. An advanced technical method of stopping people from making their own entertainment.
– Leonard Rossiter
The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience.
– Lester Bangs
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
– Kin Hubbard
Violence is a form of cinematic entertainment
One of the world’s most popular entertainments is a deck of cards, which contains thirteen each of four suits, highlighted by kings, queens and jacks, who are possibly the queen’s younger, more attractive boyfriends.
– Lemony Snicket
Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn’t know the first thing about either.
– Marshall McLuhan
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next
The entertainment is in the presentation
It could be argued that there is an element of entertainment in every pie, as every pie is inherently a surprise by virtue of its crust.
– Janet Clarkson
The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
– Walt Disney
One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
– Kurt Vonnegut