Quotes About Entertaining

#1. When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

Benedict Cumberbatch

#2. Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

Christopher Morley

#3. Myths are often entertaining, but they're never very helpful.

Lemony Snicket

#4. I love entertaining people; I strive to make them feel good, and they make me feel wonderful. To explain it simply, I like what I do, and my ambition is to get better as I get older. That's really what I'm all about.

Tony Bennett

#5. If god is watching us,
the least we can do is be entertaining.
BUMPER STICKER

Darynda Jones

#6. When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.

Vaginal Davis

#7. Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.

Aberjhani

#8. Consumers know precisely what's wrong with advertising. Be it TV or print or whatever, they know that advertising is never creative enough ... never as witty, inspiring, sophisticated, entertaining and downright likeable as they would like it to be.

Phil Dusenberry

#9. A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.

Henry F. Ashurst

#10. I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time ... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.

Alton Brown

#11. 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.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#12. The choices of roles I made had to do with educating and entertaining. And as a result I found myself working only every two or three years.

Cicely Tyson

#13. My goal is to teach readers how to treat and respect themselves and each other in an entertaining way. I do that in all of my books.

Lisi Harrison

#14. The only thing I've cooked while entertaining is stir-fry.

Robert Webb

#15. There's something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.

Jennifer Hudson

#16. One of the nice things about being me is you show up in a town, you meet somebody interesting and entertaining, and for 48 hours, what a wonderful person to be around. You mess around, and all of that is super, super fun, and you don't have to deal with the long-term consequences of it.

Guy Branum

#17. At home, we're listening to TV or playing with our computers, so our entertaining is rusting. We don't know how to be good hosts and guests in business situations.

Letitia Baldrige

#18. What if it were possible or even entertaining, to recreate and transform one of the old myths and infuse it with a different meaning?...Imagine being guided by your mythology that it is better to thrive and prosper, than just to survive.

Robert William Case

#19. I'm an author with a penchant for research. For me the part where I'm learning new facts comes before the story I weave
to make an entertaining read.

Marcia Fine

#20. I know Americans talk a great deal about the price of things - more, I consider, than is entertaining, sometimes!

Sara Jeannette Duncan

#21. Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it's a very weird place to be.

Joe Cocker

#22. Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell.

Tupac Shakur

#23. Since I don't feel like I belong solely to any one of them I find that it makes me even more interested and open to other cultures as well. It's also fun looking ethnically ambiguous because no one can quite put a finger on what I am and it's very entertaining to me!

Kina Grannis

#24. 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

#25. Some things are to hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.

Hal Clement

#26. I think people really appreciate clever commercials, as do I. I think they're very entertaining. You just have to wade through all the garbage. That's one of the reasons people watch the Super Bowl. A lot of them watch it to see the commercials and not the actual game.

Kevin Nealon

#27. War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun.

Kurt Vonnegut

#28. Kill Bill is one of my favorite movies. It has this gritty feeling to it, and it's got a little bit of everything - a little bit of western, a little bit of samurai, and a lot of this very cinematic violence that I personally think is very entertaining.

Tove Styrke

#29. She'd always despised the whole other woman thing, but here she was, entertaining the possibility.

Diana Stevan

#30. I loved the 'Die Hard' films growing up and the 'Taken' movies. They're so entertaining, and I enjoy being on the edge of my seat.

Michelle Dockery

#31. I think the word for me is survival, not ambition. I'm really a lucky man. I've always accepted whatever I was in, whether it was driving a taxi or entertaining. The jet set might not enjoy what I do, but I deal with the average person.

Don Ho

#32. It was a challenge for me to do a plot because I'd been an essayist and a journalist. I had to be vigilant about moving things along and being entertaining.

Meghan Daum

#33. Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?

Marilyn Manson

#34. For most artists, you take what you have and who you are, and then you expand on it to make it more entertaining. Everyone knows actors aren't the same people that they play in movies, but people somehow expect musicians to be a certain way all the time!

Tinashe

#35. Since I'm not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.

Thalia

#36. I'm not helping you, Ms. Lane. I'm entertaining the notion that you might be of use to me. If so, I need you alive.

Karen Marie Moning

#37. I don't like television and movies where it's like, "Well, that was entertaining, but when I think back on it, that didn't really make sense and it's empty." That's like junk food, to me.

Frank Spotnitz

#38. The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.

Will Wright

#39. My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.

Patti Smith

#40. I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.

Jo Brand

#41. Now is a good time, 10 years ago would have been a good time, and 10 years from now it will still be a good time to see a dynamic, entertaining movie that's wall-to-wall Miles Davis where the music will hopefully spark some desire to know more about the man.

Don Cheadle

#42. A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that.

Daniel Radcliffe

#43. It's just funny to see him so territorial over a woman. He's practically growling at any man who talks to you, even the married ones. He's never even brought a woman around so I hope you don't mind me saying that it's a little entertaining." Before

Katie Reus

#44. In France, it's always about life, normal life. We always stick with these realistic things. So when French people are dreaming about American movies, they go and see the thrillers, and Westerns, and science fiction, huge entertaining movies.

Berenice Bejo

#45. Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.

Richard Mitchell

#46. You know you've written a good book when even the people who hate it admit it's entertaining.

Sully Tarnish

#47. Mr. Guppy suspects everybody ... of entertaining ... Sinister designs upon him ... he in the most ingenious manner takes infinite pains to counterplot, where there is no plot; and plays the deepest games of chess without any adversary

Charles Dickens

#48. Once I've accepted a role, I'll let my parents and my sisters read it because they find it entertaining.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

#49. Mainly, I'm doing my thing, and I hope people like it. I don't say, 'I'm going to write something radical and hope it reverberates throughout society.' The goal is to write a solid, entertaining, engaging show.

Jenji Kohan

#50. I enjoyed entertaining people since I was a little girl. There was nothing better than making people laugh. That, and the need to express myself in a safe environment.

Amy Weber

#51. I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

Kevin Hart

#52. I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.

Emmanuel Jal

#53. The violence for me is never meant to be entertaining. It's meant to hurt the characters and I'm trying to show the impact it is having on the people involved with it. If there is cathartic violence at the end, then it costs the protagonist something. It's not just a blaze-of-glory moment.

Charlie Huston

#54. It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

Becky Johnson

#55. I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.

Martha Stewart

#56. While the world is "entertaining themselves to death," we are working and resting. This is the essence of the fourth commandment. We work for God and we rest in God (Heb. 4: 10).

Kevin Swanson

#57. I thought Bill Bryson's 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' was remarkable. Managing to be entertaining while still delivering all that hard science was a pretty good trick to pull off.

Mark Haddon

#58. Every good book should be entertaining. A good book will be more; it must not be less. Entertainment ... is like a qualifying examination. If a fiction can't provide that, we may be excused from inquiring into its higher qualities.

C.S. Lewis

#59. I used to comfort myself when I became an actor that it was a useful job, entertaining people. And it was important to do it as well as you possibly can.

Ian McKellen

#60. WE APPROXIMATE THE BIRD'S BODY BY A SPHERE OF RADIUS 5CM, said Sib, I had no idea aerodynamics was so entertaining

Helen DeWitt

#61. Partying has never been my thing. I've been around some wild people. I've been in the same room and watched them experiment, and that's been entertaining.

Vera Farmiga

#62. The time is come when women must do something more than the "domestic hearth," which means nursing the infants, keeping a pretty house, having a good dinner and an entertaining party.

Florence Nightingale

#63. My style is neither casual nor academic, it's somewhere in between. For me, that's the best way to be succinct and informative but still (I hope) at least a bit entertaining.

Joel McIver

#64. I like entertaining people. I want to make big entertainment.

Elizabeth Banks

#65. When people sat in caves, they told stories. It was for sharing, learning, entertaining. Storytelling is as old as we are. It will never die.

Mark Rubinstein

#66. I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

Elvis Presley

#67. Alonso paid one of the guards to keep him informed on what goes on in the house when he's not around. Alonso was in the guest house entertaining a few young girls all under the age of seventeen. He had been drugging and fucking them all

Nako

#68. What I'm hoping to do and what I think I will do is make an entertaining enjoyable show where the whole family can sit down and watch.

Rosie O'Donnell

#69. I think every good, entertaining movie should have a message. I really believe that, because if you do it without it, the film feels a little bit soulless.

Roland Emmerich

#70. I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.

Cheri Oteri

#71. Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.

Michel De Montaigne

#72. Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.

Emo Philips

#73. But I think theatre in a repressive society is an immensely exciting event and theatre in a luxurious old, affluent old society like ours is an entertaining event.

Janet Suzman

#74. I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

Jack O'Connell

#75. Sometimes we need to heed our fears and negative thoughts, and at all times we need to be alert to the world outside ourselves, even when that includes absorbing bad news and entertaining the views of "negative" people.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#76. 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

#77. Miss Hermione Jean Granger, I leave my copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard, in the hope that she will find it entertaining and instructive.

J.K. Rowling

#78. Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.

Bill Hicks

#79. I'm not about either entertaining or instructing. The entertaining and instructing are secondary fallout from the fundamental thing, which is basically to create an aesthetic object.

Samuel R. Delany

#80. So it's hard to be an artist and be true to the reality of the world you want to create and also make it entertaining and successful financially.

Antoine Fuqua

#81. I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.

Spike Lee

#82. THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.

Stephen King

#83. You used to be entertaining before you started to write.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#84. I have no idea whether what I write will be of the remotest interest to anyone else. Some mornings when I read what I wrote the previous day I think it's fairly entertaining; other times I think it's pure rubbish. The main thing is not to take any notice, not to be elated or upset, just keep going.

Maeve Binchy

#85. A person may come into full harmony with the formless substance by entertaining a lively and sincere gratitude for the blessings it bestows upon him.

Wallace D. Wattles

#86. Mark Dawidziak is as comfy and entertaining a tour guide through the world of Mark Twain as Twain himself was a tour guide through the world. In other words, Mark Twain's Guide is such a fun read that the only thing dry about it is the ink.

David Bianculli

#87. Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

Manny Pacquiao

#88. I don't know when acting came to be more about awards than about the work. Judging who's better than the other person shouldn't be part of why we're doing this job. It should be about entertaining people.

Anna Paquin

#89. I think people are getting bored of parties, and hosts are terrified nobody's going to show up. So they have to start entertaining them before the party even starts.

Jerry Della Femina

#90. I'm not very good with drink recipes. If I'm entertaining, I like to come up with a house drink for the evening, one thing I'll make for the whole evening of the whole month.

Amy Sedaris

#91. Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.

Joe Zawinul

#92. My first dream was to travel. I was attracted to different places, different colors of skin, different food. When I was 18 in 1977, I went to Europe with my accordion and discovered the pleasure of entertaining people.

Guy Laliberte

#93. All of us ambitious young writers hoped to have a cover story in Esquire, of course. The idea was to write the best, most entertaining article that you can.

Laurence Shames

#94. I do what I do because of Walt Disney - his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.

John Lasseter

#95. I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

Maggie Stiefvater

#96. Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.

Donna Lynn Hope

#97. Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.

Max Planck

#98. It's street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don't get bored and walk away.

Jason Statham

#99. We read a lot of books. Children's books mostly, because they're always much more truthful than adult books. And much more entertaining, said Mrs. Bunny.

Polly Horvath

#100. My job is to teach someone something they never knew, but it should not be like you're in a prisoner-of-war camp. I'm supposed to be teaching you but also entertaining you. You're giving me an hour of your time. It should be lively. We're on a hunt, it's a mystery, and it's amazing.

Bonnie Bassler