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Entertainment Quotes
"The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment."
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"I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better."
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"Actually, one of the TSA guys showed me the Entertainment Weekly with the poster from the original in it, which also mentioned they were doing a remake. Caught me totally by surprise."
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"Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union."
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"I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on."
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"Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad."
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"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."
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"Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes."
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"You think about taking audiences on a journey."
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"Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear."
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"It's supposed to be entertainment. It's not supposed to be a documentary."
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"After 27 years, I walked out of my first one a few months ago. Black Sheep with Chris Farley."
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"I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46."
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"I tend to watch a little TV... Court TV, once in a while. Some of the cases I get interested in."
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"We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties."
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"When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman."
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"If did go back to school, I would want to learn another aspect of the entertainment industry like to become a producer or an agent, you need a law degree."
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"I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry."
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"We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of entertainment which would cut out the stage."
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"I know I could be the host of 'SportsCenter' in two years if I changed my show today to sports."
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"That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment."
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"Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?"
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"I didn't get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly."
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"Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them."
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"James Brown is important because he decorates the clock correctly and he's good with lower mathematics. Don't get me wrong - he's good."
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"'Educational' refers to the process, not the object. Although, come to think of it, some of my teachers could easily have been replaced by a cheeseburger."
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"I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment."
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"You name it, we had it. It won't happen again. You're not going to duplicate this show."
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"They just wanted to show the entertainment world that we're vulnerable."
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"Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment."
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"Like they just wanted to enjoy The Gus Waters Show while it was still in town."
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"I am a professional performer and I only appear on TV for entertainment or for philanthropic organizations, and I consider this a very serious matter that doesn't fit into either category."
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"Man needs entertainment simply to hide his madness. If he was perfectly sane, he would not need entertainment. He could just sit and watch this bamboo grow. He does not really need entertainment."
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"There is an intimacy about the Opry Theater that gives an entertainer a special charge."
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"There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all."
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"I can't say I'm happy to be talking about John Ritter and his passing. In my 21 years of Entertainment Tonight, this really was one of the most shocking and sad things to have happened."
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"Modern Carpet Designs may provide endless entertainment for your guests."
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"Directing her was like directing Lassie. You need 14 takes to get each one of them right."
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"Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived."
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"I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad."
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"Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously."
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"Even though there's an entertainment value to the film, I think it's very important because you can't really separate the impact of that political message from it. It's rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining."
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"It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best."
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"My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Aunt Minnie?"
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"It's important to remember that, first and foremost, if not only, this is entertainment. "The West Wing" isn't meant to be good for you."
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"Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality."
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