Modernism has a reputation for being a forbidding phenomenon: its visual arts disconcertingly non-representational, its literary efforts devoid of the consolations of plot and character - even its films, it's argued, fall well short of that true desideratum: entertainment.
Well, I've been happily supporting myself for ten years now on the hustle and trade of live entertainment. I guess my breakthrough moment was when I decided to go for it once and for all.
The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles.
I think the story is the most ancient form of human entertainment.
I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.
Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.
Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment
A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk.
To do what you love and are passionate about is a dream come true, My life is consumed by music and entertainment— and it’s the best life I could ever hope for.
Never did I think that I became family entertainment.
I remember when I got to 16, my mum was like, 'No, now you've got to go and get a proper job. We've indulged you long enough. ' I don't think they ever thought I was going to be successful in entertainment at all.
People no longer know how to apologize, which is particularly noticeable among athletes, politicians, and entertainment figures.
All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.
Art and Entertainment are the same thing, in that the more deeply and genuinely entertaining a work is, the better art it is. To imply that Art is something heavy and solemn and dull, and Entertainment is modest but jolly and popular, is neo-Victorian idiocy at its worst.
Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.
My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
I enjoy being part of the entertainment industry, although I'm the laziest person that I've met yet in this business.
The Left has taken over the universities and, increasingly, high schools and elementary schools. It dominates the news and entertainment media. And many judges and courts are leftist - meaning that their decisions are guided by leftism more than by the law or the Constitution.