Entertainment quotes

“I like the idea you can have the entertainment and the political idea in there.”
James McTeigue

- Mary: Well, the only other thing at the moment is a new musical that the RSC are doing.
- Dexter King: Er, what's it about?
- Mary: The Elephant Man.
- Dexter King: A musical of the Elephant Man? What's it called?
- Mary: "Elephant", I think - with an exclamation mark presumably.
- Dexter King: Pity the poor bastard who has to play the... (continue)(continue reading)
Anna Massey - Mary
Jeff Goldblum - Dexter King

“In show business, if you can make money for people they don't care what you do.”
Joel Schumacher

“Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie or something. Just wandering the city is entertainment.”
Wes Anderson

“- Deloris: We could pack this joint.
- Mother Superior: Through blasphemy? You have corrupted the entire choir!
- Deloris: How can you say that? I worked my butt off with these women! They've given up their free time to do this, and they're good! I mean, sister, we could, we could rock this place!
- Mother Superior: Out of the question!”

Whoopi Goldberg - Deloris
Maggie Smith - Mother Superior

“- Wild Writer: What if the wife smashes him over the head, with a frying pan, and then chops him up into hundreds of tiny pieces with her shiny new carving knife?
- Father Writer: No, I don't think so.
- Son Writer: It's a family show!
- Wild Writer: Okay, then what if she does it to the whole family?”
Bobcat Goldthwait - Wild Writer
Robert Klein - Father Writer
Peter MacNicol - Son Writer

“Broadway! I haven't been so happy since we crushed Poland!”
Will Ferrell - Franz Liebkind

“- Amber Von Tussle: Aren't you a little fat for the show?
- Tracy Turnblad: I'm sure many of the other home viewers out there are pleasantly plump or chunky.
- Amber Von Tussle: Come on. The show's not filmed in Cinemascope.”
Vitamin C - Amber von Tussle
Ricki Lake - Tracy Turnblad

“I've been in this racquet for years. If you don't get a good break, you get a bad one. That's show business.”
Clark Gable - Patch Gallagher

“- Judge: Miss LaRue, just what constitutes a striptease?
- Rosette LaRue: A good constitution and a couple of zippers.”
Ferdinand Gottschalk - Judge
Winnie Lightner - Rosette LaRue

“We are putting on this play and if you don't like it, then tough titties you assturd monkey fucker!”
Steve Coogan - Dana Marschz

“Fifteen years sitting in prison is punishment. But 15 years sitting in front of a television set is entertainment.”
James Coburn - John Reston

“The two by-products of that whole tragedy were, violence in entertainment, and gun control. And how perfect that that was the two things that we were going to talk about with the upcoming election.”
Marilyn Manson - Himself

“The people have many needs. One is law and order. Other? Entertainment.”
Ed O'Ross - Viktor Rostavili

“- Max Bialystock: The two cardinal rules of producing. One: Never put your own money in the show.
- Leo Bloom: And two?
- Max Bialystock: Never put your own money in the show!”
Nathan Lane - Max Bialystock
Matthew Broderick - Leo Bloom

“Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.”
Rebecca Pidgeon - Ann

“That's the question on the minds of all your viewers? Whether I run out of gas or not? Tell you what, Jer. You let your viewers know that I hope Miss Voss' fear and my desperation are entertainment enough for them. After all, that is what this is all about, isn't it? The story. As it breaks. Live. Coming to you from the bad guy himself. I mean...” (continue)(continue reading)
Charlie Sheen - Jack Hammond

“- Deliverance Bodine: You owe me...
- Malik Brody: I owe you what?
- Deliverance Bodine: Entertainment, chocolate boy wonder!”
Brittany Murphy - Deliverance Bodine
Kadeem Hardison - Malik Brody

“- Penny Pingleton: Without that show I have nothing!
- Prudence Pingleton: Having nothing builds character!”
Leslie Ann Powers - Penny Pingleton
Jo Ann Havrilla

“- Robert Angier: He's a dreadful magician.
- Cutter: No, he's a wonderful magician. He's a dreadful showman.”
Hugh Jackman - Robert Angier
Sir Michael Caine - Cutter

“- Peter Gaulke: Luckily, we caught that on tape so that man will be honored.
- Ed Lawson: You want to honor the man by showing him being killed by an alligator on your wildlife show?”

Steve Zahn - Peter Gaulke
Jeff Garlin - Ed Lawson

“We need to save our show from people who don't know the difference between a Tony Award and Tony Hawk.”
Ashley Tisdale - Sharpay Evans

“Eddie, we're in show biz. It's all about razzle-dazzle. Appearances. If you look good, and you talk well, people will swallow anything.”
Jeffrey Jones - Criswell

“I'm not going to the toilet, I'm going to showbiz!”
Matthew Broderick - Leo Bloom

“Why would you want to stay at home and watch a little box? Because it's convenient? Because you don't have to get dressed up, because you could just sit there? I mean, how can you call that entertainment, alone in your living room? Where's the other people? Where's the audience? Where's the magic? I'll tell you, in a place like this, the magic...” (continue)(continue reading)

Martin Landau - Harry Trimble