Quotes about Entertainment

Sadly, many in our world today encourage idleness, especially in the form of mindless, inane entertainment that is on the Internet, on television, and in computer games.

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome.

I am a massive film geek, and I love movies.

A holiday would be a poor thing indeed without a great deal of game playing!

Hey, you know what, I've gotta go on that 'Letterman' show. That show is so lame.

Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

Others find it easy to dismiss the Bible out of hand, as negative, vengeful, violent. I can only hope that they are rejecting the violence-as-entertainment of movies and television on the same grounds, and that they say a prayer every time they pick up a daily newspaper or turn on CNN. In the context of real life, the Bible seems refreshingly whole, an honest reflection on humanity in relation to the sacred and the profane.

A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.

All husbands are boring, John. No woman with an ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don't like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.