Entertainment quotes

“This is not a business, this is show business. Punching below the belt is not only all right, it's rewarded.”
Benicio del Toro - Rex

“- Gwen DeMarco: We shouldn't have to do this! It makes no logical sense! Why is it here?
- Jason Nesmith: Because it's on the television show.
- Gwen DeMarco: Well, forget it! I'm not doing it! This episode was badly written!”
Sigourney Weaver - Gwen DeMarco
Tim Allen - Jason Nesmith

“- Governor Anthony Cloyden Hayes: My dear young lady, unlike you, I have not spent my life cruising from discotheque to discotheque with my ass hanging out of a french cut bathing suit.
- Phillipa Lloyd: You're missing all the fun, aren't you?
- Governor Anthony Cloyden Hayes: I suspect you're right.”
Peter O'Toole - Governor Anthony Cloyden Hayes
Twiggy - Phillipa Lloyd

The evidence supports nothing more than the finding of murder in the second degree. I must further observe that we have a kind of "Alice in Wonderland" situation here. The juvenile code dictates a sentence of confinement to the age of 25. The degree - whether it's first or second - is irrelevant. And so I find myself wondering what we have... (continue)(continue reading)
Victor Raider-Wexler - Judge

“Entertaining the rustics is not as difficult as I feared. Any simple, childish game seems to amuse them excessively.”

Frieda Inescort - Miss Bingley

“You have to look inside and ask this question: who are you trying to entertain - the audience or yourself?”

Danny DeVito - George Shapiro

“Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.”
Paul Scofield - Mark Van Doren

“It's crazy. The town is jammed. I don't know, is the Pope in town, or some other show business figure?”
Woody Allen - Sandy Bates

“You call that news? We peddle disaster! And violence, it's commercial! Blood and tears and football and cheers. Performers, superstars. Get them on, get them off. Next, next, fast, fast! We're in the entertainment business. There's nothing wrong with that... if you call it that.”

Sir Sean Connery - Patrick Hale

- Researcher: The average Howard Stern fan listens for, are you ready for this? An hour and twenty minutes.
- Kenny: How can that be?
- Researcher: Answer most commonly given? "I want to see what he'll say next".
- Kenny: Okay, fine. But what about the people who hate Stern?
- Researcher: Good point. The average Stern hater listens for two and a... (continue)(continue reading)
Peter Maloney - Researcher
Paul Giamatti - Kenny