Quotes about Entertainment

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.

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.

I mostly make R-rated movies. To make a movie that one day if I have kids or my nephews want t watch, I can show them without being put in prison. It would be really nice.

The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.

Too many churches have become entertainment halls where star speakers strut and swagger for their fans. For too many houses of worship, the platform has become a performance stage for musicians—and I mean that in the most ignoble sense. Even when they shout and sing the name of Jesus Christ, somehow the focus of attention is upon them and public praise stays with them.