Entertainment quotes

“- 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

“- 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

“- 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

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

“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

“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

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

Hermione Gingold - Elizabeth Rennick

“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