Entertain Yourself Quotes

#1. It's like anything. It's like you're an actor, or a painter, or a writer. You've always got to entertain yourself first before you can even consider entertaining other people. Because if it doesn't excite you, it's never gonna excite anybody.

Noel Gallagher

#2. Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life.

Dean Koontz

#3. Jesus demands to be Master and Lord of every part of your life. Is He Lord of your mind, of what you think, read, and believe? Of what you dream about, meditate on, and entertain yourself with? Do your eyes belong to Christ? Can [you] ask God's blessing on it? Can [you] do this to the glory of God?

Billy Graham

#4. I think comedy evolves constantly. I reinvent myself all the time. I always find a way to entertain myself because I truly believe you have to entertain yourself in order to relate it the right way to your audience.

J. B. Smoove

#5. I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.

Kristen Schaal

#6. If you're an only child, you spend a lot of time by yourself, and you develop a strong ability to entertain yourself, to conjure up fantasy.

Peter Jackson

#7. Always have fun with fashion. Dress to entertain yourself.

Betsey Johnson

#8. One more crack like that, Chatsfield, and you'll have to entertain yourself in your little hideaway.'

Antonio took her hand again and found himself feeling serious as he said, 'Not a chance. You're not escaping now.

Abby Green

#9. I'm actually a very shy person, which is why I always chose to be in the kitchen. You can make people happy and entertain them, without really being there. You can make a very short appearance and then say, 'I've got something on the stove, gotta go!'

Giada De Laurentiis

#10. Pictures were made to entertain; if you want to send a message, call Western Union.

Samuel Goldwyn

#11. The Palm is a joint for sadists to entertain masochists.

Malcolm Forbes

#12. The store of wisdom does not consist
of hard coins which keep their shape
as they pass from hand to hand;
it consists of ideas and doctrines
whose meanings change
with the minds that entertain them.

John Plamenatz

#13. The hired journalist, I thought, ought to realize that he is partly in the entertainment business and partly in the advertising business - advertising either goods, or a cause, or a government. He just has to make up his mind whom he wants to entertain, and what he wants to advertise.

Claud Cockburn

#14. Don't write to impress. Write to entertain.

James Runcie

#15. You two go and have fun. I have plenty of stuff here to entertain me with. Plato rocks! (Tory)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#16. Thought is the property of those only who can entertain it. -

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#17. The artist can't give you an answer that's satisfying to the dreadful reality of your existence. So the best you can do is maybe entertain people and refresh them for an hour-and-a-half.

Woody Allen

#18. Gout produces calculus in the kidney ... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.

Thomas Sydenham

#19. I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

Brittany Murphy

#20. I always go in with the feeling that I'm gonna have a good time in what I'm doing. I entertain myself when I perform. If I do that, then I can see the other performers enjoying my character.

Seymour Cassel

#21. I try to find what is closest to me in the character. There's many sides to personality, but it's a matter of, do you entertain those specific areas of your personality, or are you afraid to entertain them?

Corin Nemec

#22. I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that.

Nicolas Cage

#23. From very early on, I've realized that and I have a mission statement with my songs to entertain, to encourage and to challenge the Body of Christ. That's always kind of the focus of the songs that I write for myself.

Jonny Diaz

#24. The novel may stimulate you to think. It may satisfy your aesthetic sense. It may arouse your moral emotions. But if it does not entertain you it is a bad novel.

W. Somerset Maugham

#25. I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath.

Elvis Presley

#26. I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

Penny Marshall

#27. Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down.

Peter Ustinov

#28. The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them.

Mark Haddon

#29. Begin to act from your dominion. Declare the truth by telling yourself that there is nothing to be afraid of, that you no longer entertain any images of fear.

Ernest Holmes

#30. And you wouldn't want to bring her home - at least not to entertain your guests or amuse the children. No, Juan Diego thought - you would want to keep her, all for yourself.

John Irving

#31. Practise wonder today - be present, begin again, know nothing, and allow everything to surprise you, inspire you, excite you, entertain you, teach you. Be fully open to life, today, and let yourself live wonder-fully.

Robert Holden

#32. You have to enjoy playing. The old-timers did, and that's one reason why their music is a lasting music. I feel that I play jazz to entertain the listener, and you just can't do that unless you yourself are entertained at the same time.

Barry Harris

#33. Their attitude is, 'okay, I am the customer. You are supposed to entertain me.' It's kind of a passive attitude they're taking, and to me it's kind of a pathetic thing. They do not know how interesting it is if you move one step further and try to challenge yourself [with more advanced games].

Shigeru Miyamoto

#34. Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.

Eric Ladin

#35. Entertainers are there to entertain. They aren't there to teach your children the lessons that you haven't bothered to teach them at home yourself.

Wentworth Miller

#36. There's nothing more vulnerable than just standing in front of a thousand people, or ten thousand people, and doing your best to entertain them, touch them in some way.

Jason Mraz

#37. The reason why we are disenchanted with ourselves is because we entertain in the depths of our psyche a kind of vision-an anticipated vision of what we could be if we would be what we might be.

Vilayat Inayat Khan

#38. People entertain me more than I entertain them.

Kathleen Madigan

#39. Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.

Francis Bacon

#40. I'm writing songs to perform, to entertain. And when I'm really trying to get inspired, I go backwards, and I just rap.

Mystikal

#41. My job is mostly to entertain and be funny.

Rosie O'Donnell

#42. I don't always want to read serious fiction. But when I read fiction that's not serious, I don't want to read brain candy. Entertain me, for God's sake.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#43. My job has always been to entertain people. I want people to laugh.

Shaquille O'Neal

#44. The difference between a story and an essay is that the storyteller just wants to entertain the reader, while the essayist has been to graduate school.

Dinty W. Moore

#45. You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

Eddie Money

#46. I don't want to just entertain people. I want to touch them.

John Denver

#47. My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.

Mel Brooks

#48. I didn't entertain the idea that my music would ever become available in any of the ways that I had previously known music to be available.

Nico Muhly

#49. All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.

Larry Cohen

#50. The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

Leigh Hunt

#51. A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

George Bernard Shaw

#52. Every thought you entertain is a force that goes out, and every thought comes back laden with its kind.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#53. A movie should entertain you in a way that will also open your mind. I think movies are tools to enrich your experience.

Hany Abu-Assad

#54. Like JJ Abrams, creators just want to tell a story and entertain people. So why only focus in one way of telling it?Give readers another way to connect with your story. Entertainment does not need to be contained in one medium. Think about telling your story in many mediums.

Anne-Rae Vasquez

#55. Film making is an expensive, as well as a serious business. We should be able to entertain our audiences, who are fully aware of what they want. Every filmmaker has a different point of view and presents facets of society.

Rohit Shetty

#56. At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

Paul Feig

#57. In banquets remember that you entertain two guests, body and soul: and whatever you shall have given to the body you soon eject: but what you shall have given to the soul, you keep always.

Epictetus

#58. Is it not reasonable to suspect that if existence were pointless and the universe devoid of meaning, we would never have achieved not only the ability to imagine otherwise, but even the ability to entertain this very thought - to wit, that existence is pointless and the universe devoid of meaning.

Leszek Kolakowski

#59. Whether you want to entertain or to provoke, to break hearts or reassure them, what you bring to your writing must consist of your longings and disappointments.

Rafael Yglesias

#60. To buy women things, some men entertain. To entertain women, some men buy things.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#61. Lies don't matter, ... There's no merit to it. It's kind of hard to entertain foolishness when it has no merit.

Jalen Rose

#62. I always entertain the notion that I'm wrong, or that I'll have to revise my opinion. Most of the time that feels good; sometimes it really hurts and is embarrassing.

Anthony Bourdain