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Entertainment is needed, and so I do think escapism is needed.

I think the act of condensing months or years of work down to a couple hours of entertainment is pretty wild and extremely rewarding.

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

It's funny, I lived my first 38 years of my life with maybe one or two people ever saying that I looked like Greg Kinnear. As soon as I get into the entertainment industry, now it's 100 percent of people.

The producer is at the center of entertainment. The producer is being forgotten, and producers must seize the center of activity.

I didn't get into entertainment until I was like 31. I didn't star in a movie until I was 46.

One way to stay grounded in the entertainment industry is to surround yourself with very good people that will constantly remind you how uncool you are.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.

On all open platforms, regardless of whether it's Facebook or the Apple App Store, the largest segment is entertainment and games. It's the largest revenue segment. And it's the same for Tencent.

Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.

In the heart of the desert and founded by the first Spanish Conquistadores, Las Vegas has become the entertainment capital of the world, with more than 30 million visitors a year.

With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens.

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

You walk into a retail store, whatever it is, and if there's a sense of entertainment and excitement and electricity, you wanna be there.

I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.

I like to work; I like to be creative. I work in the entertainment industry where work may come up, and it may not, so I wanted to do something proactive. I've got a brain; I don't want to just sit at home - I want to do as much as I can.

I think in a weird way that the entertainment industry is strangely more brutally honest than any other.

When we started EA in 1982, our goal was to make games as big a media as visual entertainment or movies. That was how big we dreamed at the time.

I'd like to do a television show that is encouraging, useful, and clean, and I'd like to go up against Entertainment Tonight and beat it.

Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.

I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.

I've been chased. I've been pushed. I've been screamed at. I've been verbally abused. I've been afraid for my safety. But I did it all in the name of entertainment.

We have this culture of financialization. People think they need to make money with their savings rather with their own business. So you end up with dentists who are more traders than dentists. A dentist should drill teeth and use whatever he does in the stock market for entertainment.

I told them I belong to the same organizations and clubs Mrs. Roosevelt belongs to, but with a few brave exceptions, I was still unable to do films or television for the next seven years.

Entertainment's definition has been reduced to making people happy.

I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates a sense of balance and stillness which is important for any performing artist.

Everyone's heard the same joke a million times and knows the setups. They are tired of the mass-marketed entertainment served on the networks.

I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.

Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - 'fear' for me stands for 'false evidence appearing real.' We create fantasy, and in certain ways that's wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn't real.

I just want fiction to remain a vital force for entertainment and not just for contemplation. Both things can exist.

The circus itself is my personal ideal entertainment venue.

And yet, in a culture like ours, which is given to material comforts, and addicted to forms of entertainment that offer immediate gratification, it is surprising that so much poetry is written.

The African American community is so under-served in the entertainment industry.

Acting is definitely put at the back of my mind, if it's there at all right now. It's all entertainment.

It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to get insulted.

I had given up the theater and everything propelled me into entertainment. And I didn't resist it.

In Fargo, they say, well, that's a job. How well do you get paid? For example, for this book I was written about in Entertainment Weekly, and it was kind of cool because my mom asked me if Entertainment Weekly was a magazine or a newspaper.

We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.

You know, entertainment is just a curtain at the end of the day.

Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life.

Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.

It's a heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody. My job was to go out there and play the game of basketball as best I can and provide entertainment for everyone who wanted to watch basketball. Obviously, people may not agree with that; again, I can't live with what everyone's impression of what I should or what I shouldn't do.

Working in the entertainment industry exposes me to every current cosmetic fad.

Entertainment can be a more powerful driver than poverty.

Hacking was the only entertainment that would occupy my mind - like a huge video game, but with real consequences. I could have evaded the FBI a lot longer if I had been able to control my passion for hacking.

I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

I'm kind of big on performance in general. I like the sort of entertainment where you can go in and be fully immersed in it.

I've never considered myself a celebrity or even part of the entertainment business. I'm a cooking teacher.

Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.

One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

Often with television, particularly with lifestyle entertainment, they really try and box you in.

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

After aircraft production, the entertainment industry is America's largest source of trade surplus.

Canada does a really a phenomenal job of producing music, actors, and entertainers. If you look at the number of people we have in our country relative to the number of people that are prominent in the entertainment industry, it's pretty impressive.

Entertainment is such a great job to have.

I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads.

From the first time you can look in the paper and you accept that you're the entertainment for some people that night, it becomes so much more enjoyable to play live.

Pure Flix makes evangelistic films, but we also make family films. I think the viewer wants to see quality entertainment that the whole family can watch, and many nonbelievers watch our films because they can watch with their family and young kids.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

I find it interesting, the different rules that apply to journalism and drama, even though journalism has become more and more about entertainment, and entertainment has become more and more about journalism.

We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

I have been skeptical and not trusting of traditional models of the entertainment industry. I never got a manager.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.

There has been a tremendous growth in the entertainment industry throughout Atlanta. There are many opportunities in film, television and theatre.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

Advertisers now have a highly targeted opportunity for aligning their brands alongside the entertainment experience people are enjoying on YouTube.

In the first years after the systemic transition, our screens showed American entertainment that had not been available before, or had been available only sporadically.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

I take aliens very seriously and don't appreciate light entertainment or weak approximations being made of them.

Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make.

A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'

We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

I can't work all day and then go home and hang out with the same people. I don't want everything to revolve around the entertainment business. Yes, that's my career, but it's not my life.

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

Anything that reflects the human condition back on humans in the entertainment medium is art.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.

If entertainment years were dog years, man, I'd be like Gandhi. I'd be, like, 250 years old.

I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

My #1 job as a thriller author is to give readers the best white-knuckle thrill ride I am capable of. I am first and foremost in the entertainment business. If that suspenseful ride is also terrifying because it hits really close to home, then I am once again doing what I am supposed to do as a thriller author.

I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.

I do want my films to have the required entertainment quotient, but I'd prefer doing films where you don't have to leave your brains behind.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

The entertainment options for young people are a lot broader now, and the quality of films is slumping a little bit.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

I think it is good escapist entertainment even though it's bad.

I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.

If something we think, see, hear, or do distances us from the Holy Ghost, then we should stop thinking, seeing, hearing, or doing that thing. If that which is intended to entertain, for example, alienates us from the Holy Spirit, then certainly that type of entertainment is not for us.

I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

People like Ella Fitzgerald, Lena Horne, Marlene Dietrich and Sammy Davis Jr. all walked me down this path of entertainment.

I read the 'Times' and 'Post,' but I have nothing against the 'Daily News.' I also fish around the Internet for entertainment news but find most of what I read to be untrue or partially true.