Quotes About Entertain

#1. Pending catastrophe is not an easy notion to entertain, much less sustain. Americans, moreover, have a low tolerance for doom and gloom. We are the nation of optimism, after all. We elect leaders who promise hope and change. We are the shining city on a hill. But what happens when the lights go out?

Kathleen Parker

#2. 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

#3. My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?

Oliver

#4. My first job is to entertain, but if, while you're enjoying, you start to question something you never thought about before or empathize with, relate to, love someone you only thought of as 'other' once upon a time - how awesome is that.

Jenji Kohan

#5. Empire of Deception is a sure thing
a book guaranteed to entertain and make you rich (in knowledge, that is). Dean Jobb has found a fascinating yet little-known jazz-age tale and told it with style and smarts. Get in on the action.

Jonathan Eig

#6. I think a writer's first job is to entertain, even in novels: to tell a compelling story that pulls the reader along toward an end. At the same time, the best stories are character-driven.

Noah Hawley

#7. The French under the old monarchy held it for a maxim that the king could do no wrong . The Americans entertain the same opinion with respect to the majority ... If ever the free institutions of America are destroyed, that event may be attributed to the omnipotence of the majority.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#8. I'm an entertainer and I entertain people and they entertain me back by asking questions. And some of them I answer.

Carl Reiner

#9. I can hardly conceive of any educated man believing in God at all without believing that God contains in Himself every perfection including eternal joy; and does not require the solar system to entertain Him like a circus.

G.K. Chesterton

#10. Nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself, particularly if the idea comes from a sinister villain.

Lemony Snicket

#11. Foolish minds will entertain you, but confuse minds will irritate you.

Amit Kalantri

#12. I only get involved with roles that I find intriguing, in top quality productions regardless of the medium. I try not to focus on the format itself and concentrate instead, on finding roles that challenge and entertain me as an artist.

Brian J. White

#13. But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

Alanis Morissette

#14. I'm really interested in being a player. I'm not pursuing TV at all. If TV pursues me, that's different. I don't even want to entertain it. I think that helps me as a player.

Paul Azinger

#15. If you have a great message but no great way to entertain, people won't want to hear it.

Jonny Diaz

#16. I come not to entertain you with worldly festivities but to arouse your sleeping memory of immortality.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#17. That's what I've wanted to do my whole life, just act. When I was younger, I loved to entertain people. I always used to make up dance routines, do little plays. I love to perform, basically.

Cara Delevingne

#18. My number one goal as a thriller writer is to entertain you. But I've got a chance to not only entertain people, but have them close my book and be smarter having read it.

Brad Thor

#19. Although I write to entertain, and try to keep my work free of didacticism, I do have a rather passionate belief in our need to be connected to - and to learn from - history.

Mal Peet

#20. I'm only interested in two kinds of people, those who can entertain me and those who can advance my career.

Ingrid Bergman

#21. Somehow people have been sold on the idea that only professionals can entertain them, that only professionals can sing or tell jokes. And people are cut out of this creativity loop, and creativity is being limited to these large, centralized voices.

Chuck Palahniuk

#22. You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

Nora Roberts

#23. God is not going to entertain me, and God is not going to be entertained by me. This fact rules out a lot that passes for worship today.

A.W. Tozer

#24. What I'm doing when I'm doing my speaking engagements is that I'm delivering serious material with humor. So, instead of delivering humor without a particular point other than to entertain people, I'm delivering comedy in a serious way.

Andy Andrews

#25. I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.

John Larroquette

#26. Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other. They do not exchange ideas, they exchange images. They do not argue with propositions; they argue with good looks, celebrities and comercials.

Neil Postman

#27. 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

#28. It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition.

Kurt Vonnegut

#29. Creative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius

Marshall Cook

#30. We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?

Abraham Lincoln

#31. Books to enthral as well as entertain

Keith Hoare

#32. The male gender remembers only the things that entertain them.

Dante Burroughs

#33. Until I know this sure uncertainty,
I'll entertain the offered fallacy.

William Shakespeare

#34. I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work.

David Boreanaz

#35. We love to entertain audiences and this picture does that - it's romantic, it's funny, it's got a nice message and I think it's a gift to the audience to be able to enjoy this movie.

Jerry Bruckheimer

#36. It is hard that people don't just let you do your job for them and entertain, and then carry on your own life.

Blake Lively

#37. Festivals are unique. They can be the best of times or the worst. You're not playing to the converted. But those are the best shows - to see if you can make new friends and entertain them.

Andrew W.K.

#38. The pressure to entertain, to sell ourselves, and never to be visibly anxious keeps ratcheting up.

Susan Cain

#39. Life ain't like books. Books got somebody writin' 'em and tryin' to entertain ya. Life is more like a set of Legos. Unless you take care of 'em, you lose a few pieces and you end up steppin' on 'em with bare feet. You gotta take care of your life.

Laura Moncur

#40. What you write should entertain you and serve you first. Don't worry about maintaining anything beyond your own attention. Focus on exorcising your demons in the work. If you can do that, then you'll succeed in the world.

Chuck Palahniuk

#41. We are entertainers. We're trying to entertain people.

Matt Stone

#42. This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But as I recollect, there was one important difference: the gypsy only seemed to violate the laws of nature, he never really violated them!

Theodore Von Karman

#43. To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas.

Martha Stewart

#44. My books are written from the heart, to entertain: they're books I would like to read. Because of that, when I meet people who like them, we have so much to talk about!

Nick Harkaway

#45. We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.

H.P. Lovecraft

#46. Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.

Faith Sullivan

#47. Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause

Claude C. Hopkins

#48. Although both men were full of resolve, the defender could not keep his doubts out of his mind, while the attacker refused to entertain any doubts. (Rommel vs. Eisenhower)

Stephen E. Ambrose

#49. The privacy of reading frees us to entertain the alien.

Mason Cooley

#50. When you refuse to entertain the possibility of a solution because you "know" it will not work, then you have successfully strengthened the problem at hand

Gary Hopkins

#51. The dramatist's function is (1) to earn a living for his family and himself and (2) to try to entertain people for a few hours.

Lee Adams

#52. Christmas is a time of sharing, and joy and grace. There's no better time to entertain family and friends than now.

Shelley Shepard Gray

#53. What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives.

Sam Harris

#54. If you can sit all generations of a family down and entertain them and, at the same time, leave them talking about existential notions, then that's fantastic.

Tom Goodman-Hill

#55. Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

Stephen Bayley

#56. God has to let fags in heaven. Who else could help him decorate, cook, and entertain? We're kind of everywhere.

Anthony Paull

#57. I have never had a point in my life to make. I'm just trying to entertain the reader.

Dave Barry

#58. If thou expect death as a friend, prepare to entertain it; if thou expect death as an enemy, prepare to overcome it; death has no advantage, but when it comes a stranger.

Francis Quarles

#59. It is perhaps the result of a culture that prefers us to be passive. The passive me says: "Feed me"; "Entertain me"; "Hold me"; "Love me"; "Listen to me"; "Tell me I matter"; "Make me a priority"; "Don't make me think too much or work too hard"; and so

Matthew Kelly

#60. Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.

Walter Dean Myers

#61. Entertain only those thoughts which bring health, vitality and happiness in your life. Start now and think right for you are the painter of the canvas of your life.

Sanchita Pandey

#62. I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.

Nancy Grace

#63. I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

Arthur Bradford

#64. A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.

Ernest Bevin

#65. If a film or any piece of work doesn't entertain, it fails - and that is using the word entertain literally, meaning it holds you there and you become absorbed by it so that you don't walk away and get bored and so on.

Mike Leigh

#66. Numbers are a lot like people. They each have a story. They interact with one another. They entertain. They inform. They deceive. They can create happiness or inflict enormous pain. You have to know how to get them to talk.

Lee Goldberg

#67. To me, there was nothing greater than to play for an audience and to entertain people and that has stayed with me all these years.

Bobby Vinton

#68. While the goal of all movies is to entertain, the kind of film in which I believe goes one step further. It compels the spectator to examine one facet or another of his own conscience. It stimulates thought and sets the mental juices flowing.

Sidney Lumet

#69. Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition.

William Shakespeare

#70. It's always been good here at Edenlove to keep coming here and entertain the crowd.

Rohit Sharma

#71. Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

Chris Colfer

#72. America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest variety and greatest number of artificial amusements of any country. People have become so empty that they can't even entertain themselves.

Billy Graham

#73. My world is about stories that entertain; emotions that move; people you'll remember; literature that matters.

M.G. Crisci

#74. It is an author's primary duty to entertain. Sling out all the philosophical terms, but keep the reader turning the page.

Susan Howatch

#75. I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say, to hold interest. No matter how worthy the message of something, if it's dull, you're just not communicating.
-Poul_Anderson

Poul Anderson

#76. You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not free to alter the consequences of those choices. You will be what you think about what you consistently allow to occupy the stage of your mind.

Ezra Taft Benson

#77. I still love it, every day. I get up and I love going to work. I love seeing it all happen, and I admire the people that we work with. I just hope that the films will continue to entertain audiences, as they have done for 50 years.

Barbara Broccoli

#78. It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.

Jacki Weaver

#79. My girlfriend Siri is a food blogger, and we both love to entertain and eat. This is what happens when you're in your thirties: what was once a passion and real appetite for nightlife in New York City manifests itself into other things, like entertaining at home.

Carson Daly

#80. The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

George Bernard Shaw

#81. I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Elvis Presley

#82. We love to entertain kings and queens, but at Disneyland, everyone is a V.I.P.

Walt Disney

#83. I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.

Donald O'Connor

#84. I always considered myself being an organizer. I'm very good at teaching singers, I'm very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.

Ike Turner

#85. Once you're on stage you can't go back, even when things go wrong people expect you to stay there and entertain them. When all else fails, you've got to try tap dancing.

Angus Young

#86. Priests and nuns have had their chance with me. I'm still wearing the scars to prove it.) And so, during the weekend recess, the Meiers invited Cullivan to eat Sunday dinner with the prisoner in his cell. The opportunity to entertain his friend, play host

Truman Capote

#87. The way the films look will never entertain an audience alone. It has to be in the service of a good story with great characters.

John Lasseter

#88. Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

Gelett Burgess

#89. I just want to entertain; that is my main objective and what comes before everything else.

PewDiePie

#90. I try hard to hold fast to the truth that a full and thankful heart cannot entertain great conceits. When brimming with gratitude, one's heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.

Bill W.

#91. In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

John Updike

#92. If you refuse to entertain a baby cousin, the baby cousin may get bored and entertain itself by wandering off and falling down a well. If you refuse to entertain a pack of hyenas, they may become restless and entertain themselves by devouring you.

Lemony Snicket

#93. Here we are now, entertain us.

Kurt Cobain

#94. Our goal at Home Theater Films is to inspire and entertain our audience. We want to make great movies that everyone can enjoy and elevate them with contemporary, relatable characters that naturally demonstrate their faith in real world situations.

Corbin Bernsen

#95. I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

#96. Satin Island, like all books, contains hundreds of borrowings, echoes, remixes and straight repetitions. To list them all would take up as much space as the text itself. The critical reader can entertain him- or herself tracking some of them down, if he or she is that way inclined.

Tom McCarthy

#97. I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained. I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way.

Amy Sedaris

#98. I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre.

Tobias Segal

#99. flashed a spreadsheet he'd created. "Hey, guys," he said, "I think we can build this rocket ourselves." Griffin and Cantrell had downed a couple of drinks by this time and were too deflated to entertain a fantasy.

Ashlee Vance

#100. I've done everything from cater, wait tables, pre-school teacher, painting, to being Cinderella, Elmo, a clown, nanny, selling hair ... I would do kid's parties and entertain and do magic and paint faces and balloon animals. The highlight of my life.

Diora Baird