Amusement quotes

“Always giving parties to cover the silence.”
Ed Harris - Richard Brown

“- Charles: You're certainly a funny girl for anybody to meet who's just been up the Amazon for a year.
- Jean: Good thing you weren't up there two years.”
Henry Fonda - Charles
Barbara Stanwyck - Jean

“- Psychiatrist: Tell me, Harold, what do you do for fun? What activity gives you a different sense of enjoyment from the others? Uh, what do you find fulfilling? What gives you that... special satisfaction?
- Harold: I go to funerals.”
G. Wood - Psychiatrist
Bud Cort - Harold

“We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may...” (continue)(continue reading)
David Strathairn - Edward R. Murrow

“If you're sending someone down, you better send him fast - 'cuz funny Steven's going under.”
Tom Hanks - Steven Gold

“That's so diculous! It's re-diculous.”
Paul William Walker IV - Phil Deedle

“A halfwit is a person who spends half their time trying to be witty.”

Bonita Granville - Nancy Drew

“- Dr. Emmett Brown: And in the future, we don't need horses. We have motorized carriages called automobiles.
- Jeb, Saloon Old-Timer #3: If everybody's got one of these auto-whatsits, does anybody walk or run anymore?
- Dr. Emmett Brown: Of course we run. But for recreation. For fun.
- Jeb, Saloon Old-Timer #3: Run for fun? What the hell kind of...” (continue)(continue reading)
Chris Lloyd - Dr. Emmett Brown
Pat Buttram - Jeb, Saloon Old-Timer #3

“You amuse me and precious little amuses me in this world at my age.”

Charmion King - Aunt Josephine

“When you're seventeen and the world's beautiful, facing facts is just as slick fun as dancing or going to partis. But when you're seventy you don't care about dancing, you don't think about parties anymore and about the only fun you have left is pretending that there ain't any facts to face.”
Beulah Bondi - Lucy Cooper

It all goes back to something my grandmother told me when I was a kid. "Holden", she said, "the big bucks are in dick and fart jokes". She was a church goer.
Ben Affleck - Holden McNeil

“- Max Zorin: You amuse me, Mr. Bond.
- James Bond: It's not mutual.”

Christopher Walken - Max Zorin
Sir Roger Moore - James Bond

“- Edgar Bergen: I don't think that's very funny.
- Charlie McCarthy: You don't?
- Edgar Bergen: No.
- Charlie McCarthy: Well then, why did you make me say it?”
Edgar Bergen - Edgar Bergen
Charlie McCarthy - Charlie McCarthy

“If you want to understand what it's like to be a child, you need to learn to play.”
Michael Welch - Artim

“- Violet: Madame Nell says there's something wrong with you, that you're a cream puff or something. She says you're pathetic, missing all the fun in life.
- Bellocq: Perhaps Madame Nell is imagining she knows more than she does. Do you think she's having fun?
- Violet: She's as happy as anybody. Are the afraid you'll get the little casino? The...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brooke Shields - Violet
Keith Carradine - Bellocq

“- Mark: Do you know what you did?
- Henry: Come on. We did it together.
- Mark: You could have killed people.
- Henry: With your help.
- Mark: I didn't know you were going to do that.
- Henry: I feel sorry for you, Mark. You just don't know how to have fun.”

Elijah Wood - Mark
Macaulay Culkin - Henry

- Manny: So, you think she's the girl for me?
- Sid: Oh, yeah, she's tons of fun, and you're no fun at all. She "completes" you.
Ray Romano - Manny
John Leguizamo - Sid

So Wayne, I hear you're putting on some kind of concert. That's good. People need to be entertained, they need the distraction. I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die? Why do they come to me to die?"

Ed O'Neill - Glenn

“In this town, murder's a form of entertainment.”

Queen Latifah - Matron Mama Morton

“To be a princess, you have to believe that you are a princess. You've got to walk the way you think a princess would walk. So, you gotta think tall you gotta smile and wave, and just have fun.”
Anne Hathaway - Mia Thermopolis

“Oh, come on, Joey needs a good laugh. We'll take him to that ritzy titsy place where they threw him out!”
Charles Grodin - Buddy

“They all played football somewhere, not all of them in the pros, but they all have something unique to bring to the game. We're going to try to get these people together and try to put together a winning team. If nothing else, they should be fun to watch.”
Gene Hackman - Jimmy McGinty

“Is this your idea of fun, Mav?”

Anthony Edwards - Goose

“You know everything is not an anecdote. You have to discriminate. You choose things that are funny or mildly amusing or interesting.”
Steve Martin - Neal Page

“I like these guys! They are funny guys!”

Alfonso Arau - El Guapo