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"232 Entertainment Quotes

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

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It's the most prestigious dog show in the country. We love dogs, and we're having a blast out here.

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Starting in the mid-1990s, the end-to-end ubiquity of the Internet, combined with its cheapness, spontaneously combusted to give us Napster - a site that revolutionized the music industry overnight. We got P2P file swapping in the film and TV industry as well.

Combined File Film Film And TV
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I think the novel is at one end of the art-entertainment continuum - the play in the middle - while TV and cinema veer a bit more towards entertainment.

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There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant.

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The easiest way you can educate and entertain people is by talking issues they can easily relate with.

Easiest way Educate Entertain People
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I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.
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My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

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I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.
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I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive.

Anything Before Labeled Labeling
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The entertainment industry may look glamorous, but it’s serious money business and a lot of hard work.

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I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.
Because Concept Cool How
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'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

Always Bit Characters Closed
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All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear.

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The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

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I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.

Characters Drawing Even Ever
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As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

Kid More Much Star
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Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.

Audience Changed Different Fundamentally
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.

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Working is hard and distracts from having fun.

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Formats are going to change because this is what the people want. It's not what the labels want.

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Artists are very young, and say, Um, ok, to these industry dudes.

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How lucky can one guy get? I was a runaway, and then I was in one of the biggest bands in the world. I've sold out every arena. I've sold millions and millions of records.

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Tough guys don't dance. You had better believe it.

Believe Better Dance Guys
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When it comes to putting together a new show, we always push the envelope, and that's part of Motley Crue's legacy.

Always Envelope Legacy New
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Celebrities, movie stars and rock stars are losing their mystique.

Celebrities Losing Movie Mystique
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Acting is everybody's favorite second job.

Acting Everybody Favorite Job
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I think right now is the best time for stand-up, ever. I sincerely do.

Best Ever Now Right
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Yeah, there were a few years in the early nineties where I really began to hate what was valued as funny and just sort of what was valued in stand-up, period.

Began Early Few Funny
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I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.

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All the truly great stand-ups say, 'I go onstage, and I work on jokes. The inspiration will happen while I'm doing my work.' To me, in the end, the surest thing is work.

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Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, 'This is where I wanna be.'

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To get asked to do stuff like 'United States Of Tara' and 'Caprica' is terrific. I can't complain.

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There's nothing wrong with doing comedies, and I'm not against comedies, either, but I always want to do stuff that keeps me off my guard and gets me out of my comfort zone.

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Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

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'Entourage' is a staple L.A.-based show, and people say it's pretty real, and I thought it was. It's an exaggeration of the truth.

Entourage Exaggeration People Pretty
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The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period. When you work in movies, or on TV shows, there are 50 other people involved.

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I think as a standup performer you have to feel the audience. So the audience kind of dictates what they get, you know?

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The best part about stand-up is that you control everything. Period.
About Best Control Everything
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I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.

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I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.
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I find many of the people that I've worked with to be incredibly funny.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

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The cool part of being an entertainer is getting the opportunity to get your feet wet in all areas.

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The producers felt that 24 would be good for the audience, to really get to know who these 12 and 12 are.
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'American Idol' has taken over my whole life.

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We complement each other. No competition. Some are doing serious drama; some are doing comedies. We are all entertaining.

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An artist is an entertainer of mankind. You are created to entertain all political parties, not to prefer one political party because you have been compromised. It’s unethical.

Entertainer Mankind Created Political parties
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What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

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What we learned quite early on is what was really important to early British pop that we produced-and this is where we were distinct from almost everybody else in this respect-is that it had to reflect exactly what the audience wanted us to say.

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