Entertainment quotes

“- James Gordon Bennett: I never liked your show, but I always thought the people did
- P.T. Barnum: They did. They do!
- James Gordon Bennett: Putting people of all shapes, sizes, Colours. Putting them on stage together and presenting them as equals, another critic might have even called it a celebration of humanity.
- P.T. Barnum: I would've...” (continue)(continue reading)
Paul Sparks - James Gordon Bennett
Hugh Jackman - P.T. Barnum

“The entertainment industry is loaded with extraordinarily talented people. But the true, genuine originals, they're rare.”
Peter Falk

“It's not like we're hardened criminals here. We're in show business.”
Hank Azaria - Albert Freedman

“- Miriam: Do they know you take an interest in the theater?
- Pierce: Well, an unmarried gentleman must amuse himself.
- Miriam: Must he?”

Lesley-Anne Down - Miriam
Sir Sean Connery - Pierce

“Ladies and gentlebugs! Larvae of all stages! Rub your legs together for the world's greatest bug circus!”
David Hyde Pierce - Slim

“None of us has been in New York before. There are the Broadway shows - we'll have to find out how to get tickets. There's also a lot of street crime, but I believe we can watch that for free. We want the essentials. Dinettes. Complete bedroom groups. Convenient credit, even though we've been turned down in the past.”
Tony Randall - Brain Gremlin

“Carriages waited at the curb for the entire performance. It was widely known in New York, but never acknowledged, that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.”
Joanne Woodward - The Narrator

“- The Kid: I ain't got time for your bullshit, Billy. What do you want?
- Billy: This stage is no place for your personal shit, man!
- The Kid: That's life, man.
- Billy: Life, my ass, motherfucker! This is a business, and you too far gone to see that yet! I told you before, you're not packin' them in like you used to. No one digs your music but...” (continue)(continue reading)
Prince - The Kid
Billy Sparks - Billy

“Some folks sure got a strange idea of entertainment.”

Bob Larkin - Martin

“- Maria Corvier: I just wanted to know how you feel about ballet?
- Chuck Rodwell: What?
- Maria Corvier: Ballet.
- Chuck Rodwell: Oh, ballet, Oh, I can take it or leave it. Of course, I haven't seen you, yet.
- Maria Corvier: You certainly haven't.”
Cyd Charisse - Maria Corvier
Dan Dailey - Chuck Rodwell

“- Zidler: Remember: a real show, in a real theater, with a real audience. And you'll be...
- Satine: A real actress.”
Jim Broadbent - Harold Zidler
Nicole Kidman - Satine

“What if God just put us here for His own entertainment? That's all we are - just something for Him to have a bit of a laugh at?”
David Thewlis - Johnny

“There's nothing in the rules that says that big girls need no apply.”
Maddie Baillio - Millie

“Entertainment is often a medium in which you can put yourself front and center.”
John Cena

“An actor's job is to entertain and I'm glad to say that my films succeeded in that respect.”
Peter Cushing

“- Elvira: What is there to do for fun around here?
- Robin Meeker: This town isn't big on fun. But there is one place! The bowling alley. It gets pretty wild on league night.”
Cassandra Peterson - Elvira
Ellen Dunning - Robin Meeker

“What is magic? Focused deception. But deception meant to entertain.”
Jesse Eisenberg - J. Daniel Atlas

“You have no idea who you're dealing with. You want a show? I'll give you a show. Back up and get ready for the main event!”

Susan Sarandon - Quenn Narissa

“- Max Renn: Videodrome. Like video circus, video arena. Do you know it?
- Masha: No.
- Max Renn: It's just torture and murder. No plot, no characters. Very, very realistic. I think it's what's next.
- Masha: Then God help us.”
James Woods - Max Renn
Lynne Gorman - Masha

“- Anya: For God's sakes Andrew, you've been in here for 30 minutes. What are you doing?
- Andrew Wells: Entertaining and educating.
- Anya: Why can't you just masturbate like the rest of us?”
Emma Caulfield Ford - Anya
Tom Lenk - Andrew Wells

“This play is gonna bitch-slap Broadway like a cheap hooker at a gangbang.”
Amy Poehler - Cricket Feldstein

“- Dr. Fromberg: What was that film you were watching?
- Michael: Death, Death, Death...
- Dr. Fromberg: Death, Death, Death.
- Michael: ...Part 2.
- Dr. Fromberg: Oh, lord! Don't you see? Violence is not senseless entertainment!”
David Hemblen - Dr. Fromberg
Edward Furlong - Michael

“I'm not sure that the problem of violence in society can be put at the feet of the entertainment industry.”
Ivana Miličević

“I'm not going to fight! I'm going to entertain!”
Omid Djalili

“I never should have lent my name to this fiasco!”

Hermione Gingold - Elizabeth Rennick