Entertaining Quotes by Eric Bischoff, Craig Ferguson, Priyanshu Chatterjee, Judy Reyes, Jermell Charlo, Angie Thomas and many others.
This isn’t a competitive sport. Wrestling is not the NFL or the NHL. It’s not really sports. It’s entertainment. And in order to be entertaining, you have to create emotion. And you can’t create emotion by simply having a wrestling match.
I don’t like my politicians entertaining me and I don’t like my entertainers politicianing me.
I would love to be a part of an interesting, entertaining film in which I shine like never before.
Television has been very good to me. I grew up on it, and it had quite an impact on me. I’m entertaining opportunities that are coming my way.
Hurd puts on entertaining fights, I put on entertaining fights. Let’s bang it out, let’s rumble.
YA does a fantastic job of being socially aware and, at the same time, entertaining.
A man with charm is an entertaining thing, and a man with looks is, ofcourse, a sight to behold, but a man with honor – ah, he is the one, dear reader, to which young ladies should flock.
When I was nine, we’d take a bus to the seaside. Coming back, we’d take turns entertaining, singing songs and the like. I tried some stand-up comedy. I had a captive audience in that bus. Then I realized I wanted to do more than that.
I’ve thought for the last decade or so, the only actual place raw truth was seeping through in newspapers was on the Comics Pages. They were able to pull off intelligent social comment, pure truths not found elsewhere in the news pages, and had the ability to make it all funny, entertaining, and pertinent.
Movie acting is harder than doing a play. You have to be entertaining but completely natural, like Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant. They weren’t doing anything. Do you have any idea how hard that is? That’s how good they were. It’s crazy hard to be convincing and real. It’s the most subtle, hardest thing there is.
I follow Coach Spurrier because he seems to have an entertaining way of communicating.
Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk ‘We’re doomed! We’re doomed!’ on cue during ‘We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.’ Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining.
I went to the opening of ‘Sister Act,’ and I had such a great time. I had no idea what it was about, and I had never seen the movies. But I heard the show went through some major last-minute craziness in previews, and man, opening night was really fun and really entertaining.
If you’re not entertaining, what the hell’s the point?
SHADOW PROWLER is a fresh, exuberant take on territory that will be familiar to all fans of classic high fantasy. Alexey Pehov introduces a cast of charming, quirky, unsavory, even loathesome characters in a fast-paced, entertaining adventure.
Gertrude’s Secret’ is highly entertaining. Some of the monologues are very funny, some very surprising and some painful.
When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.
The truth is, when you want a great show, it’s not ‘entertaining’ the audience – it’s you sharing with them… an experience of communion.
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.
Of course I want to do films that I feel I like and I feel like are either entertaining or different sort of value attached to it which I personally lean towards, and that’s how I make my choices.
When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
I think that baseball is still the most entertaining game because it’s the simplest to watch.
Entertaining the boys in Burma was something that I will never forget and will remain a highlight of my life.
In my opinion, if you’re entertaining guests, you should do everything possible to make them comfortable.
People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it’s more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
Just in case, though, I stormed into my apartment, tossed a quick hello to Mr. Wong, then rummaged through my entertainment center to lay out all my exorcism equipment. I kept it in my entertainment center because exorcisms were nothing if not entertaining.
Do tell. It might be entertaining to see who gets to you first.” “Excuse me if entertaining you isn’t at the top of my agenda.
Flashy characters are more entertaining to people because you get it. You don’t have to work to get someone who says what they mean and says what they think. They’re out there. It’s harder to play a quiet character because everything happens in their stream of consciousness.
When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.
I love entertaining people, and I want to pursue it.
Ultimately, it is in fun. It is supposed to be highly entertaining.
Lucifer has a sense of fun about life; he just likes to play with people. But the sense of humor of the show is what makes the show entertaining as opposed to dark.
My life is now a constant assessment of whether what’s happening in real life is more entertaining than what’s happening on my phone.
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!
I’d have to say Thierry Henry. From the ages of ten to 16, watching him in the Premier League was amazing and he scored all different types of goals – free-kicks, volleys, left foot, right foot. He was entertaining. He’s probably the best centre-forward, I think, to play in the Premier League.
When I was a kid, there was no distinction between a movie about old people or young people. It was either funny or not. It was either entertaining or not. It was either exciting or not. It was either thrilling or not.
A movie with nothing but violence is not a good movie. But one that is actually entertaining around the horror is one that people will remember and watch again and again.
Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
I’m like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I’ve loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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.
For decades, activist shareholders were an entertaining, but largely ignored, Wall Street sideshow. Disgruntled investors would attend annual meetings to harangue executives, criticize strategies – and protest that their complaints were being ignored.
People just want to watch movies that are entertaining, it doesn’t matter what genre it is.
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.
The wonder of a free-market society is that we can all do our best to package our message in an entertaining fashion and present it – and then everybody votes with their footsteps.
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.
I didn’t resolve the questions… and I find that entertaining. And if my life were to end tomorrow, it would be fulfilled in that manner. I would say, ‘The questions have been terrific.’
Every year, the Friday before the new Saturday-morning shows would premiere, the networks would do this big preview special, and I was always glued to the TV. As horrible as they were, they were entertaining at the time. There was a lot of showmanship from the networks based around the new lineup.
We’re all too busy working, entertaining ourselves With forty hours, television and prescription pills Well, I take two a day to help my brain behave It never does, but who’s to say? At least my doctor gets paid.
I had a serious and rather drunken research session with the great Charles MacLean, who took me through the history of whisky and malts. I can’t remember a thing about it now. In fact I don’t think I remembered a thing about it the following morning. Very, very entertaining.
‘Baadshaho’ is not an imaginative film, it’s real and made it an entertaining way.
I think what I’m gonna do is keep being international and not being grounded to any one particular thing. As long as I’m entertaining people in one way or another and maintaining some sort of adventurous life with my family in tow, then I’ll be happy.
When the frame’s safe, I like to let myself go a bit; play a few more entertaining shots rather than just getting the frame over and done with.
Britain’s last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki
THE THREE is really wonderful. A mix of Michael Crichton and Shirley Jackson, hard to put down and vastly entertaining.
Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?
I’m following my interests, and there’s something about investigating the world and creating a watchable, entertaining programme out of it that is deeply satisfying.
A savage review is much more entertaining for the reader than an admiring one; the little misanthrope in each of us relishes the rubbishing of someone else.
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.
Michael Savage turns on a microphone and broadcasts his opinions to faithful followers who enjoy listening to his views on politics, social issues, and anything else that this colorful, provocative, entertaining guy comes up with. It doesn’t matter which of his views I agree or disagree with.
Galactic Hot Dogs is an insanely entertaining, eye-popping adventure!
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.
What I love about what I do is expanding people’s minds on the topics of gender expression, gay rights, and most of all, entertaining them while I do it.
People need to be true to themselves, and if entertaining and content-creating is something that does not come naturally and is really difficult, they should find something they are passionate about and love and do that instead.
The satisfaction that one gets from entertaining live audiences has a different feel.
The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget to be entertaining and to have character and emotion at their centre.
I used to always like the tag teams because you can do, to me, more entertaining, cooler, crazier stuff when there’s more bodies in the ring.
I don’t like the word ‘experiment’ in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
A faithful lifehacker would use technology to avoid dead time and move on to the entertaining, more gratifying activities as soon as possible.
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any.
At the end of the day, the job is to tell the story that you promised to tell and do it in the most entertaining and perhaps surprising way you can think of.
At the end, it’s your movie and your performance that stands out. So if I am a good actor, and if am being part of good entertaining engaging films, audiences will like me.
Entertaining on any scale can be stressful and daunting.
The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
And in down times it shakes a lot of the bad SF out, a lot the stuff that was bought for literary reasons, which is neither entertaining nor great literature.
It’s a fast-paced somewhat violent sport, but it’s very much entertaining. And the greatest thing about mixed martial arts is that it transcends a lot of demographics.
I feel like I have to go out there and keep on entertaining, keep on dancing and keep on being me.
I’m not curing cancer. I’m not saving lives. It’s my job. I’m an actor. It’s a good, fun job. People enjoy it, but there are many other people who are doing so many things that are more worthwhile. I just don’t see anything that special about it. I see it as entertaining.
I just like to be entertaining.
My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I’d be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most… the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.
I was one of those annoying kids that loves singing and entertaining.
I’ve always had a niche for entertaining since I was a little girl.
I will entertain things that are entertaining and sound interesting and challenge me. But acting just doesn’t come second-nature to me.
I’m an entertaining fighter.
Football is the most entertaining game in the world to watch because it’s end to end with lots of things happening.
I don’t consider myself an image-driven actor. I believe audiences come to watch my films because they are entertaining and not because of my image.
Jonathan Lethem’s 10th novel, ‘The Blot,’ is engaging, entertaining, and sharp for its first two-thirds. Then it goes to hell.
People say to me all the time, “I get my news from your show.” And that isn’t the way they should get their news. But the choice is not between getting their news the right way and getting their news from my show. The choice is that they won’t get any at all unless you give it to them in an entertaining package.
I’d like to be remembered as someone who used their ability as a novelist or as a dramatist to say the things he felt needed to be said about the society while being as entertaining as possible. Because if you don’t entertain, nobody’s listening.
It’s not a party unless I’m cooking. Some people find entertaining stressful, but it is therapeutic for me; I find it relaxing.
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.
I still find it a bit surreal that Sir Elton John can call Troy Deeney from Chelmsley. It’s quite entertaining but a bit surreal.
I live for art. I love entertaining people, making them smile and think. I love to know that a little piece of what they see, read or what they listen to is something that they can think about or see the world in a different way. Art is never-ending and I’d like to leave something that survives me when I’ll die.
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.
‘Bag of Bones’ was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998.
[Science fiction is] the attempt to deal rationally with alternate possibilities in a manner which will be entertaining.
Donald Trump was just an entertaining buffoon to watch.
I feel blessed that I get to be part of entertaining people in any capacity.
The power that you have as a storyteller is to be able to tell stories that are at once entertaining but also never lose sight of what’s going on in the real world.
And Garrison Keillor I think is a fascinating guy and really entertaining.
I guess I’m entertaining; I guess I’m interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don’t know.
We’re not doing brain surgery. We’re not saving lives… Even if you’re doing Shakespeare, it’s still entertainment. We’re just entertaining people. We’re just doing the stuff that comes on in between the ads.
If I’m bringing joy to people and entertaining people as an actor, then I should be grateful for that and act accordingly, you know?
We saw Michael Jackson and we said, we want to experience what it is to be Michael Jackson-esque. Just entertaining the people and making the world feel happy and dance.
Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That’s what entertaining is about.
We spent night after night out there learning the art of entertaining a crowd.
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.
Educationists are entertaining. We can always find a good laugh in their prose, with its special, ludicrous combination of ignorance and pretentiousness.
I think the United States is currently a kind of wonder – wonderland with the president Trump speaking on subjects of his choice, some of which are entertaining, but none of which are very strategically substantive.
Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn’t have to be about boosting egos and grabbing your crotch and dissing women. There’s a way to make political and social issues interesting and entertaining to the young rap audience.
The memoirs of the Grand Duchess Olga are an entertaining record for anyone interested in the imperial family’s home life during the last years of Russian autocracy.
Let’s be clear about what this [presidential] campaign is about. It’s not about Donald Trump, he’s an entertaining guys, he’s the greatest show on Earth.
Even the worst comic is at least somewhat entertaining, if only in a pathological way, for five minutes.
The history of storytelling isn’t one of simply entertaining the masses but of also advising, instructing, challenging the status quo.
Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
The cocktail party is probably America’s greatest contribution to the world of entertaining.
Winning is what matters and winning is entertaining.
The Mitch Rapp novels are as thrilling and entertaining as they are relevant. I am delighted to be given the opportunity to translate them to the screen.
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.
With ‘Always Be My Maybe,’ this has to be funny; this has to be entertaining. And then, when we stop for these moments with the characters that are emotional, you kind of feel it more because it’s a little bit unexpected.
Any cinema has to be entertaining. Boring cinema won’t work. If you want to make one, then screen it for free on TV.
And the mile once again becomes the focal point where it’s always been
I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.
Fair and balanced is doublespeak for bite-out-chunks-of-truth until only irrelevancy is left, byte-sized, entertaining irrelevancy.
The purpose of all art is to cause a deep and emotion, also one that is entertaining or pleasing. Out of the depth and entertainment comes value.
I was an imaginative kid. My sister needed entertaining, whereas I was the one under the table playing with a bit of fluff on the carpet. I was the sort of child who would spend time rolling up balls of all different kinds of fluff and that would be my little family.
I think that for the most part, black people specifically have sort of been used as props in TV shows as a way to move story along or as a way to make things more entertaining.
Andrew Keen was so typically brilliant and entertaining at LeWeb 2007 that we booked him for Le Web 2009.
I think I’m a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone – everyone has their own voice; if they would just write from a vulnerable embarrassing place, it’s going to be universal, and it’s going to be entertaining. Because everyone is the same, and everyone is unique.
Those [scientists] who dislike entertaining contradictory thoughts are unlikely to enrich their science with new ideas.
Stupid is never that entertaining. You can be stupid and sexy, stupid and funny but he’s just plain stupid. That is not remarkable, that’s what I mean.
I loved horror movies, and I loved movies like that – stuff with an anarchy to them, with chaos. Stuff that glorified violence and whatnot. It’s not as entertaining now. It effects me now in a way that it didn’t then.
‘The Interceptor’ has an excitement and grittiness to it, but it’s also very entertaining. It lives in this sphere of a slightly heightened reality where, although you completely identify and recognise all the characters in it, they’re fun and exciting to watch.
It may part of a one way evolution… or it may be we are currently on the downside of an innocence cycle where one day, with an up cycle, sweet will be entertaining again.
My Duke of Edinburgh interview for his 90th in June 2011 was not one of my successes. I knew what to expect: there were some very uncomfortable moments and put-downs, but I think it made for entertaining viewing.
I love to watch entertaining films with larger than life characters and hence enjoy making such kind of movies.
I am not saying celebrity chefs don’t encourage children to cook. However, their programmes are so entertaining, you end up stuffing your face with Pot Noodles instead of learning from them.
We estimate, and this isn’t an estimation, that Greta Waitz is 80 seconds behind
Rappers spit rhymes that are mostly illegal,
MC’s spit rhymes to uplift their people.
MC’s spit rhymes to uplift their people.
In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
‘Housefull’ is made with the express purpose of being an entertaining, time-pass film. No one is supposed to search for great art in this series.
Five Minute Marketing is entertaining and thought provoking marketing advice by a Canadian for Canadians.
Drag isn’t always about expensive rhinestone gowns; it’s about what’s entertaining.
When you’re entertaining, and I still haven’t accomplished this because I’m always stuck in the kitchen, but spend enough time actually with your guests. It allows you to chill with your friends and be an actual, normal human as opposed to being in the kitchen cooking all the time.
What I always expect to deliver to my audience is a very entertaining evening of singing and playing.
I’ve always felt happiest entertaining.
Just going on the road and entertaining the fans, that’s amazing.
The Republic-of-China – back in the Olympic Games for the first time
Original, pacy, and hugely entertaining-Seanan McGuire knows how to tell a good story!
I got in journalism for any number of reasons, not least because it’s so much fun. Journalism should be in the business of putting pressure on power, finding out the truth, of shining a light on injustice, of, when appropriate, being amusing and entertaining – it’s a complicated and varied beast, journalism.
I want more job. I want to die entertaining.
There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open question whether they will be able to survive an entertaining version of what they have to say.
When I walk to the ring, I hear voices telling me what to do and sometimes it’s not the right thing, but it’s definitely damn entertaining.
It’s hard to dislike a guy who’s spouting off funny comments when he grabs a guy in a hold, you know? It’s hard to dislike that, because it’s entertaining.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
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.
I think this show I’m going to do,’ Awake,’ if it’s done well, will not only be provocative and entertaining, but help people. I want to do that.
We like to make the Marvel comics films because they’re fun. Families can go see them together. They’re entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.
I mean, I find drama to be engaging and it makes your blood pressure go up and you keep watching, but it’s not as entertaining as, say, comedy.
I think a natural evolution for me would be to try to transfer over into the film and TV world and start playing different characters. Hopefully, that way, I can keep entertaining my fans that are fans of me, in different avenues and different spotlights. It’s a natural evolution.
There is always more in one of Ramanujan’s formulae than meets the eye, as anyone who sets to work to verify those which look the easiest will soon discover. In some the interest lies very deep, in others comparatively near the surface; but there is not one which is not curious and entertaining.
If you want to show cinema, make entertainment films. Sometimes they are very good, sometimes very bad, but the intention is always to make entertaining films.
I’m not really much of a genre guy. I think that audiences don’t need that anymore where you just need a very specific genre. Audiences are very sophisticated, and as long as it’s fun, it’s okay and entertaining.
A song like ‘Kilimanjaro,’ which is such a fun, entertaining track… Singing the song was an amazing experience.
I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that’s just what I love doing.
Of All the Gin Joints is one part cinematic history, one part old Hollywood weirdness, and one part handy basic bar guide, with a dash of romance and more than a few wry twists. Bailey and Hemingway prove themselves very entertaining cultural mixologists.
As public as I seem with all my charity parties and entertaining, I actually spend a lot time in solitude and need it!
The Americans sowed the seed, and now they have reaped the whirlwind
I really like action. I really liked running around. I loved being really physical. I’m a big believer in it’s okay if this job is really about entertaining people.
We have lost the art of conversation. People are shy and don’t know how to approach other people, and they are missing opportunities for relationships. And no one’s entertaining at home anymore. They’re not having people over for dinner.
We give the podium to a lot of people who shouldn’t have the podium. The message that’s delivered the loudest and in the most entertaining way is the one that we’re going to put on because that’s what we want. We want ratings more than we want to deliver information. That’s just where the culture’s gotten.
If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.
This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.
People just want to watch people live their authentic lives and share the good and the bad. You can have fun and be a positive influence and have a good impact. And it can still be entertaining.
I used to do skits for my mom… and I was always entertaining as a kid.
Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything from it and have it be equally as entertaining and good without the bells and whistles.
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!
a work that intends to be art must first be entertaining.
In the entertainment industry all that anybody wants to do whether it’s music or stories or dancing or comedy or whatever, they want to entertain the public. And they do it any way they can. Sometimes they concentrate simply on entertaining people and they don’t care what message they are giving.
I hope to keep entertaining in some way until I can’t physically entertain any longer. It’s what I was born to do, and I love this profession.
If you didn’t watch Cris Cyborg vs. Felicia Spencer and just saw the 30-27 scorecards, you probably are thinking it wasn’t a very close and/or entertaining fight. Wrong. Very wrong. I loved every second of that fight.
I think we’re at a really critical time in terms of art, and I think it’s totally possible to have a project that is entertaining but also moving the cultural needle forward. I think it’s one of the reasons I’m so grateful to work on ‘Billions.’
I am influenced by books which don’t have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
My whole life is a practical joke. Every evening and every show has really become about entertaining me. I was always like that. And now I’ve come full circle because that’s what the TV show is too.
Three Days of the Condor is still an interesting film to watch not because it’s political. It happens to be political. But that’s not why the sales of the DVDs are as high as they are. It’s because it’s an entertaining thriller. In my opinion, Tootsie is a very political movie but truck drivers can go and laugh at it.
When grey character gets entertaining, the job is done.
I love Jesus Christ with all my heart and everything He stands for. I think that sums up everything that I want for my life, everything I want for my family, everything I want for my career. I want it to be entertaining. I want people to smile and tap their toes, but I want it to be meaningful when the day is done.
My son is 14. He watches these ‘let’s play’ videos, people playing other in video games. At first, I was bothered by it, I didn’t get it, but at the end of the day, if you go back when I was a kid, I watched much worse. These videos are more entertaining and more interesting than the bad ’80s TV.
I want to deal with somebody who comes from another country to the United States and has a family that comes. I don’t care if it’s a black family from Jamaica or a Hispanic family from Mexico. These issues need to be dealt with, but they need to be dealt with in the entertaining way.
Because now it’s the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!
Because it’s me playing the character, trying to find a way to make it believable and entertaining and interesting.
It’s always weird when people approach me to make an investment. I tell them, ‘I don’t need any more money. I’m good.’ Then I wait for their expression. That part is entertaining, because people look at you like you’re crazy when you say you don’t need any more money. Who says that?
We really enjoy entertaining our children with characters. We’ll act out all of The Wizard of Oz together.
I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
And there’s no “I love you” message because Steve Ovett has married the girl
It is a weird thing that actors have people applaud when they’re done working. I still find that entertaining.
Just being around Salman Khan, who is so energetic and humorous at the same time, is always entertaining.
Growing up in Mexico, I have many fond memories of not only celebrating posadas with my family, but also of the time spent together menu planning and prepping for decoration and entertaining activities. A lot of work goes into celebrating these traditions, but that doesn’t mean they have to cost a lot too.
It’s important, at least for me, that while we’re entertaining, there’s also something substantive to talk about.
I don’t write literary fiction – I write books that are entertaining, but are also, I hope, well-constructed and thoughtful and funny and have things to say about men and women and families and children and life in America today.
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.
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.
It’s a funny thing with documentary films – you want them to feel as entertaining and as gripping as a fictional film. With a fictional film you want it to feel as realistic as a documentary film.
My favourite English player of my time was Paul Gascoigne. I interviewed him several times, always entertaining.
Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I thoroughly enjoyed every word of this wonderful book.
You’ve got to sell fights; you’ve got to be entertaining.
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.
The last story you should write is the most important story. You should start with a story that is just an amusing, entertaining, fun story to write and learn your writing chops with the least important things before you start applying them to the most important things.
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
I don’t really watch TV; YouTube is far more entertaining. But I have tuned in to ‘X Factor’ – I like trash and nature programmes.
I cook often when I am at home but not in college. I do it alone. It is just very relaxing to me. Just about anything that I like to eat, I can cook – chicken, salmon, stir fry. I like to cook seafood or burgers the most when I am entertaining.
I am biased to my show as a whole but it is still very entertaining.
Performers like to perform, and there’s certainly no disgrace in entertaining people, in giving pleasure, you hope, through your singing. My work defines who I am.
I love meetings with suits. I live for meetings with suits. I love them because I know they had a really boring week and I walk in there with my orange velvet leggings and drop popcorn in my cleavage and then fish it out and eat it. I like that. I know I’m entertaining them and I know that they know.
Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs – or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and – as evidenced by YouTube videos – entertaining cats.
If we entertain temptations, soon they begin entertaining us!
It’s also a lot easier to convince people to read an entertaining story than any other type of book!
Mum and Dad used to do a lot of entertaining. We had quite a nice house, so everybody descended on us at Christmas – aunts and uncles, who weren’t even aunts and uncles.
One of the nice things about writing is you can take essentially painful things in your life and turn them into something that might be useful, or at least entertaining, to somebody else.
I know what it is to be out entertaining millions and yet wanting to be home because you miss your loved ones.
I’m not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.
I just hate plugs. It just doesn’t seem entertaining to me. I’ve never plugged anything in my life on a talk show ever. I understand people use that vehicle. It’s just not very entertaining.
suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini – a small but vital ingredient.
To watch people dancing is the most entertaining thing on the planet and, as they take in more alcohol, the better it gets!
‘Lucha Underground’ is a combination of new psychology, new moves, and a new take on wrestling: an evolution of wrestling. In my opinion, it is entertaining. It is the kind of wrestling I want to watch. It is the kind of stories I want to tell, which is why I intend to be part of it.
Anyone can learn a trick, but to make it entertaining, to put a presentation twist on it, and then to take it out there and really amaze people is a whole different ball game. You have to have some kind of a natural ability to do that, I suppose.
When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?
If I’m not comfortable in my own skin or confident in who I am, then I’m going to pick parts based on how people are going to view them, not based on what I find challenging or entertaining.
What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and… make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did.
I don’t want people to think that this is just going to be great matches, there is going to be a lot of great matches. But it is also going to be some of the most entertaining guys in pro wrestling and these guys are going to be unleashed.
How sacredly do [we] regard the good name of another?…Do we pass on spicy bits of entertaining conversation…repeating rumors and stories which have not been submitted to the test of truth?
Great stories, well written and heartfelt. Prisoner of SouthernRock is an engaging and entertaining celebration of southern music, musicians and characters.
All the guys at Marvel are really passionate, and they love entertaining folks, and they really think about the story, and there’s a lot of thought that goes into that.
Women are given their due, and I think female-centric roles are also well-written. But it doesn’t matter who is in the centre – a male or female. As long as it is an entertaining, gripping film, people just enjoy it.
I’m self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.
‘The Interceptor’ is gritty but also entertaining. The action is great as well.
I just love entertaining. I will do anything – stand-up comedy, video games, fencing, internet shorts – I just want to keep being lucky enough to entertain people anyway I can. I try never to limit my art to a medium.
Whether it’s an inspiring song or whether it’s an entertaining song – whatever it might be about it – I just want people to feel the emotion that I put into it because I think emotion… is everything.
I was really into more over-the-top, entertaining kind of characters, larger-than-life types of things. That’s the part of wrestling that I really enjoyed.
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.
Behind every good decathlete, there’s a good doctor.
For will anyone dare to tell me that business is more entertaining than fooling among boats? He must have never seen a boat, or never seen an office, who says so.
Our mission is making the world’s daily habits inspiring and entertaining. Which people come to work at Yahoo to build on that mission? Those who are inspired by that, and you can feel that passion in the products.
I spent so many years in MMA waving the banner for pro wrestling, telling fighters they had to be more entertaining.
I just love making music and entertaining. I really do live for this culture. I don’t think about the other stuff.
I love telling stories, I love entertaining, and I love my job.
There is nothing more entertaining than to have a frank talk with yourself. Few do it-frankly. Educating yourself is getting acquainted with yourself.
On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining… he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I’m from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining.
I’m trying to be entertaining without being mean.
Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they’re entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.
Good fiction must be entertaining- but what makes fiction special- and True- is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.
It isn’t enough for a book to be transporting or entertaining; it must also come from a place of knowledge and an understanding of aesthetics. Even where a longlisted book wears its craftsmanship lightly, the power of the writing shines through.
Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.
The main thing I want to do, is to make our website the most entertaining website there is on the Internet. I want it to be the premiere site for entertainment, for communication, and for fun.
I love entertaining people, I love playing music, and I love rocking like an animal. But at a certain point, you’re playing gig after gig after gig, in town after town after town, and you’re lying down, staring at another hotel-room ceiling, and it’s like, ‘I want to be home. I’m a dad. I’ve got kids.’
The goal, first and foremost, is to tell a satisfying – entertaining – story.
The decathlon is nine Mickey Mouse events and the 1500 metres.
People thought I was funny, so I kind of took entertaining for granted… it was inevitable that I’d start giving little performances.
Even though there’s an entertainment value to the film, I think it’s very important because you can’t really separate the impact of that political message from it. It’s rare that you get films like that I think; that really have an important message and are also entertaining.
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.
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.
I don’t think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it’s inviting them to try and understand them… then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It’s a classic trick, but it’s human, and it allows characters to have more depth.
Once I’ve accepted a role, I’ll let my parents and my sisters read it because they find it entertaining.
I despise all those who fight for peace. It’s only the bad guys and the troublemakers who create entertaining and history-changing events.
When animals age, some humans see them as less valuable, less important and less entertaining.
If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise.
Most people view the artistic process as something of a mystery. Leverage that, and engage your prospective clients with good stories. For many, buying art is their escape from the real world. Make it entertaining and enjoyable.
From Here to Eternity’ happens to be fourteen-carat entertainment. The main trouble is that it is too entertaining for a film in which love affairs flounder, one sweet guy is beaten to death, and a man of high principles is mistaken for a saboteur and killed on a golf course.
The older I get, the more I realize how much I have missed because I was so busy entertaining that audience and so busy pursuing a career.
He’s been breaking Olympic records like ninepins
Young people must learn that none of the exciting and entertaining fun things are worth it if they take you off the path that will lead you back home to your Heavenly Father.
Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, … That’s not my personality. For me, the fun part of making movies is seeing it as a director sees it. I like the architecture of movies. I like knowing what’s coming and working to set that up.
People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.
If you’re not offending one group of people, you’re not entertaining the other.
Many museums are drawing audiences with art that is ostensibly more entertaining than stuff that just sits and invites contemplation. Interactivity, gizmos, eating, hanging out, things that make noise – all are now the norm, often edging out much else.
I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there’s a place for films that pry more into the human condition.
I like entertaining football but, at the same time, you can’t concede goals. That’s a tricky balance to find.
My wife says when I go out to the refrigerator, I do three minutes (entertaining) when the light goes on!
I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I’m concerned, is fun and entertaining.
The most entertaining surface on earth is the human face.
I’m slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing… I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I’d love to play one.
I know the one time I tried therapy, I did after a month or two, and I only lasted a few months, because I started to worry about being entertaining. I kept driving there once a week for an hour and I’m thinking ‘What am I going to talk about today?’
I don’t think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.
Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by…entertaining young, and not so young, sailors…or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy…being entertained by ladies who…entertain.
It’s about having personality…it’s not about being the bad guy, it’s about entertaining people.
When you talk about President Trump, the cable networks turned over so many hours of prime time to him. Why? Because he was entertaining, but also because it drove ratings. And that is different from what the news media is supposed to focus on.
I think you can be sceptical, and still do things that are in a joyful way, and ultimately you are on stage entertaining. If you let your philosophy get too much in the way of that, then you are failing as an entertainer.
Surely there’s a difference between cocky and lively and entertaining.
There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank. How curious that a mob fond of likening President Obama to Hitler knows so little about history that it doesn’t recognize its own small-scale mimicry of Kristallnacht.
In a moment, we hope to see the pole vault over the satellite.
A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information.
Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children.
The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn’t find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.
I like some of my stuff not to be particularly funny. It’s supposed to be amusing, entertaining or thought-provoking, like a curiosity. If you put it on in front of 500 people in the Odeon they wouldn’t laugh. They shouldn’t laugh.
Us fighters thrive on performing and entertaining a crowd.
I like entertaining people. I want to make big entertainment.
‘Fruitvale’ set the bar for what I wanted to do with my career, which was to make films that had consciousness and messaging in an entertaining package. Once I hit that mark, I never wanted to go back.
I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with “expressing” myself with obscure creative impressions.
The Internet is just one big gossip chamber – that’s why it’s so fascinating and entertaining. It’s a fabulous platform for superficial communication.
When I get stressed out my de-stress default is – not cat videos – but I just watch his surrogates. They’re so entertaining. It’s like escapees from the Nordstrom cosmetics counter.
The late start is due to the time.
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.
I have always sensed the exhilaration and independence of being self-propelled. Besides, you can jog while pushing a baby carriage. Maybe I’m a product of Wonder Woman comic books
A lot of boxers try to make it entertaining by fighting with their mouth.
I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.
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.
My manager and fellow YouTuber, Mike Lamond, encouraged me to start a YouTube channel as a way to practice speaking, entertaining, and being more comfortable in front of a camera. In the beginning, I used an $80 dollar flip-camera and edited every episode myself.
Entertaining is one method of avoiding people. It is very often the negation of hospitality.
During a photo-call with fellow Olympic gold medallist Duncan Goodhew- Pity Steve Ovett didn’t show up. Then we could have had the good, the bald and the ugly.
I figured, ‘Why not go into entertainment?’ I love entertaining people. I always loved being extra loud.
That’s the fastest time ever run – but it’s not as fast as the world record
That’s half of what we do our daily lives – we react to our surroundings. Of course, we have to make it entertaining, and we are entertainers.
I love anything that really pushes the envelope as far as where it takes your mind. When it’s well written and brings you into a world that possibly could be, I think that’s the most entertaining for me – to see something that could actually take place and causes you to think.
I mean when was the last time we had one of these contract signings… that didn’t end… in some sort of horrible physical calamity? So if you wanna cut to the chase, you know, we can flip the table over, we can all start beating each other up or we can at least make this entertaining.
Standing in mass on Sundays with 500 other people, shaking hands with the people around you, catching the eye of small children, entertaining the prospect of causing a scene, to make them laugh, is an opportunity to feel part of something bigger than yourself, and rooted in your community.
Fox succeeds because it’s entertaining. It’s like a rightwing freak show.
I’m in the business to make games – I love entertaining people.
You’re not going to get a seven-star match or six or five in a seven-minute segment, but I always do the best I can to make that segment memorable and entertaining, and I think that’s always the name of the game.
I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but it’s entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if you’re a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.
I don’t take modern hip-hop as real. It’s entertaining, it’s fake, like James Bond.
I know how to sell a brand and create excitement around something, and so when you combine those two together -entertaining and marketing – it’s like things start to go crazy.
I can’t watch a [Floyd] Mayweather fight. I don’t find it exciting. I used to watch boxing in the [Michael] Tyson era when it was exciting. Now it’s all bob and weave, a punch here and there. It is not entertaining.
There’s not a lot of comics with anything to say. It’s entertaining, but when you think of Chris Rock, Richard Pryor or Bill Cosby, they all had something to say.
I love performing and entertaining, but what I want to really share is a stronger voice to the people and empower women to show that women and girls can do anything. Don’t ever let your gender stop you from chasing dreams.
What’s best for business is just continue to have an entertaining product with great, interesting characters.
Sci-fi works for me as a way of getting across a social conceit couched as entertainment. Social realist movies lost their way because they are just not that entertaining.
I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.
Music’s supposed to be entertaining. But there are different types of entertainment.
I think hypnosis is entertaining. I believe it’s real.
A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.
I’ve been entertaining men with my comedy for many, many years, and I don’t plan on stopping.
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.
If you lose you better at least be entertaining while you do it or people will turn you off.
I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn’t bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we’d be able to tell the story the way it happened.
A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?
For me, life has been interesting and entertaining, and I’m interested and curious about what’s going to happen each day.
If you’re going to stay in the Olympics, you’ve got to be entertaining and get sponsorship.
Now, at this point, I can wrestle, I can go out there and cut an entertaining promo, I can also do the backstage stuff… and if you can contribute more to the show, you have more staying power.
The true test of our worldview is what we find entertaining.
I’m in the entertainment business, and I make commercially entertaining animated features.
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.
The sport has to be entertaining, it has to make money. CM Punk brings that.
‘The Amazing Race’ has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It’s smart, it’s funny, and it’s entertaining as hell.
Entertaining audiences is of prime priority for me. If they feel entertained, through that I get appreciation and my talent is therefore proved.
I think culture’s always been violent, and it is something we find very entertaining. Not only does it reflect our social reality, but it also reflects our psychic reality.
I also believe on a practical level, if you’re taking time away from people, besides entertaining them, I think it’s important that there’s something to react to.
I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I’ll leave the scenery chewing to someone else
My interest in food really began with a month’s cookery course in Frome, Somerset, after my A-levels. I left the course not an incredible cook, alas, but a real enthusiast. Food and cooking is at the core of entertaining, and my passion grew and grew.
When I listen to a script, it has to be entertaining. People who come to theatre should be happy and entertained.
My husband and I have very similar desires when we’re entertaining. We want everybody to feel comfortable and welcome, to know they can kick off their shoes and be able to come right in.
We want to make politics sort of entertaining. If it is entertaining, people are going to be interested in it, and if they are interested in it, they might think more about it and maybe involve themselves in some way down the line.
You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you’ll do next.
Both my study of Scripture and my career in entertaining children have taught me to cherish them.
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.
Spontaneity is such an entertaining facet of show business.
I think I am a lot more entertaining than most of the other players.
If you listen to my tapes, you’d hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then 14 different ways with a different vocal. You’d have to really be a music lover to sit through that and find it entertaining. I enjoy it, but I’m easy to please.
I love entertaining people and making them laugh. It’s my favorite thing to do.
I love entertaining.
A woman with a hazel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never finds fault, never talks too much nor too little–always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable and lovely creature.
For me when I watch ‘The Shining,’ it’s like watching a home movie. I understand how it scares people. I think it’s an entertaining movie, don’t get me wrong. But I look back on it with so many memories.
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.
Grilling takes the formality out of entertaining. Everyone wants to get involved.
I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That’s all I do. I don’t do anything important; I just work in entertainment.
I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare’s tragedies.
Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You’re sharing your life with people. Of course, it’s also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
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.
I put out some very entertaining material on social media! Check my Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat! I got jokes for days!
My performances may have elements that some may find entertaining, but that’s not my main purpose.
I’m in this to be the best fighter in the world, to put on entertaining shows, and to please the fans.
Aging does not make women powerless objects of pity but colorful and entertaining individuals and, on occasion, fire-breathing dragons that wise people don’t cross.
Normally, ‘Saturday Night Live’ is about as entertaining as an ocular migraine.
I want to work with guys like Rey Mysterio, The Undertaker, Edge and have good feuds and do entertaining stuff, and I know I’m capable of it.
Well.. Is that all you’ve got?.. I hope not..cuz you haven’t finished entertaining me yet.. -Gaara to Rock Lee during the Chunin preliminary
Once you get into entertaining a quarter of a million people, it’s a very weird place to be.
An educated man must have a “curiosity in exploring the unfamiliar and unexpected, an open-mindedness in entertaining opposing points of view, tolerance for the ambiguity that surrounds so many important issues, and a willingness to make the best decisions he can in the face of uncertainty and doubt”.
Jay Lethal doing that Black Machsimo character, as good as that was, it was fantastic and so entertaining. But now Jay Lethal has turned himself into this very formidable, dominant world champion, who is having some of the best matches in the entire world. So it’s really cool.
Manga is a very entertaining cultural form, made of many totally different genres. Don’t restrict yourself with a single style of manga. I would be delighted to be your springboard, but try to read as much as you can in order to branch out!
With the exception of an occasional cocktail party with friends, my holiday entertaining mostly centers around smaller get-togethers with family.
I have always loved creating and entertaining. It started with music, singing. I grew up in a household filled with music – not pop but old-school stuff, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong.
Sometimes a busted queen is more entertaining than a polished queen.
Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else’s. That’s why I write. I’m not trying to change anybody else’s life or the world, I’m trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That’s the real point.
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.
Singh Is Bling’ is a fun, entertaining film. I play a mad, geeky character called Imli. She has no sense of style. I am nothing like her in real life.
I am not interested in entertaining people. I think being an actor provides an opportunity to give people an experience they can connect to, reflect on, learn from, laugh at.
I don’t really plan what comes out of my mouth, and that’s what makes most of my lyrics entertaining.
Once you’ve experienced the warmth of an audience, the achievement of getting your first laugh, and entertaining them, singing or playing piano, it just keeps it all going.
I love Nicole Holofcener and Lynn Shelton, both for the same reasons: their films are funny without being forced, intimate and real while also being hugely entertaining.
I don’t really think differently of making a movie for grownups or making a movie for kids, if it’s boring it’s boring, so you want it to be entertaining and I think funny is funny whether it’s for kids or grownups, the only real difference is language.
I’d like to think I am taking people on a journey; I am not just entertaining people, but giving them something to think about when they leave.
I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.
My mom did not have money. She was a single mom, on and off in periods between marriages. My husband, however, grew up on a wonderful farm in Tuscany, in Florence, and his family was so entertaining in terms of growing their own food and using the fruit of their land. We have very, very different experiences.
Good God, Dev. Have you completely lost your mind? Don’t tease the psychotic tiger. He’s getting all angry and frothing at the mouth. Someone’s going to think he’s rabid. (Serre) Yeah, but teasing him is like throwing meat at Kyle. It’s highly entertaining. (Dev)
If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.
My mum was the most wonderful cook and our house was always full of delicious food and interesting people. I remember dad entertaining the likes of Des O’Connor and Bruce Forsyth. But what really shaped my childhood were the amazing Jamaican dishes that mum produced so effortlessly.
It’s gratifying to see people come up to me and thank me for entertaining them.
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that’s entertaining and that people want to see.
Ever since we were little – and this goes from when we were babies through high school – everyone always said, ‘The twins are so entertaining. Just sit down with them for five minutes, and you will see so much happen. They will fight, they will laugh, they will love each other, and then they will tell each other off.’
I love talking to people and entertaining people.
When you’re entertaining all day long and that’s your work, you end up really very tired. You don’t have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.
Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn’t have the depth of something that’s dramatic. I don’t think that’s true.
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
If you view history as a backdrop, set-dressing or fiction, then ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is hugely entertaining. My reread saw the misery of the female characters’ reality. My new reaction was sadness and fury. Knowledge ruins everything!
I started playing the piano aged four in an effort to copy Grandpa, who was constantly showing off and entertaining us all, singing comic songs on his baby grand.
With Malaysian and Indian heritage, food is a big part of our culture and I am always cooking and always entertaining.
When people are out of their comfort zone, it’s more dramatic, more prone to have more entertaining experiences, get into fights. That’s the dramatic instinct, to move people out of what they know and make them deal with it.
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.
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.
Russia perhaps is still entertaining the possibility that the moons of Mars might have access to ice or water.
I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father’s house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.
What’s most galvanizing for me is the opportunity to be topical and relevant and entertaining. That’s the holy grail.
People have become shallower. They view spending, entertaining, seeking leisure and enjoying as the main objectives of their life.
I like YouTube; it’s really entertaining. A lot of it is crappy stuff, but there are a couple diamonds in the rough there.
A crazy person doesn’t really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining.
Women are more skilled than men at making gossip entertaining.
Ezekiel Boone’s books, starting with ‘The Hatching’ series, are meant to be big, sprawling, smart, entertaining books that are fun above all else; the literary novels written under my real name, Alexi Zentner, are certainly a little more quiet.
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
I like jokes and one-liners. I enjoy entertaining and making people laugh, being the funny man. But when I’m launched into unfamiliar environments I shut down, and as I relax then my character emerges.
I think a movie is a great date idea for younger couples. It takes the pressure off, since something else is entertaining you. It’s also good for couples in a very comfortable relationship.
The books of jurisprudence were interesting to few, and entertaining to none: their value was connected with present use, and they sunk forever as soon as that use was superseded by the innovations of fashion, superior merit, or public authority.
I’m just a guy entertaining people and telling the truth and teaching them science.
Cram nailed his colours to the mast and threw down the Great Pretender
Entertaining the reader is a good function.
My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.
I like to try new stuff and experiment. That’s why I think it’s entertaining to watch my matches, because you never know what I’m going to do, and you see things that you’ve never seen before.
The Kenyans haven’t done much in the last two games, in fact they haven’t competed since 1972
In Haiti, as I understand it, storytelling and history itself are not a business of necessarily elucidating facts or the truth of an incident, but finding the version that is most entertaining and therefore will get retold and live in immortality.
Clear, crisp, refreshingly sensible, and as entertaining as it is enlightening, The Abs Diet will reward its readers handsomely. There are few ‘diet books’ that I am willing to endorse; I endorse this one enthusiastically. If you have an abdomen, get this book!
The easiest way for readers to connect with characters and feel sympathy is to make the character entertaining, sympathetic and likeable.
Entertaining those who come to see me is my objective.
Didn’t you know I’m going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don’t feel badly, I didn’t either!
Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect for people who love to dance, and it’s also visually very entertaining to watch a great dancer.
That’s one thing about my shows. I tell people, I’m not a comedian, I’m just a really funny reporter. I put my life out there and make it entertaining. By putting it out there, it helps me to deal with it, you know, so I don’t snap and so I don’t go off the handle when I get home.
I like entertaining. I adore it. I feel I’m in the right place. Without question.
If I get runs in an entertaining fashion, then great. I like to get on top of bowlers and be aggressive. I don’t want to be dominated by them. Hopefully people enjoy the way I play.
I know that you need to be entertaining at the beginning to get people interested, and what interests people is knockouts and excitement.
I have always been told that I was a funny, entertaining person and have always been told to give comedy a try.
Overhearing people’s conversations about art – that’s always entertaining.
What I like about Broadway is that you are still entertaining. You’re standing in front of an audience every night and the critics are not friends at all – and that’s good for me as an entertainer because I want to grow. It also gives me the structure of remaining in one city so I can get creative in different ways.
Since I’m not a journalist, I talk about issues that encourage an interchange of ideas through conversation while also being entertaining.
I enjoy doing comic roles that blend with the story. I am looking for cinema that is sensible and is entertaining and engaging, be it is comic or serious.
I can remember earning ВЈ5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.
Simply the best! Great music, extremely entertaining.
I can be multi-cultural, multi-lingual, work a physical style, push forward entertaining storylines, and be the more worldly entertainment that the company needs.
When I act, I act. When I sing, I sing. I don’t put one over the other. Entertaining is what I do best.
We’re tired of hearing the media say to put the Charlo’s in there with better competition. I’ve heard that every fight. As long as I’m winning fights and I’m entertaining the fans, that’s what I’m going to do.
When I was little, I always used to like to tell stories cuz it was entertaining to people.
While it was entertaining to develop content through the Dr. DisRespect character, it’s time for him to retire.
Everyone enjoys music and film. It just makes people happy or makes them feel things. We’re not saving peoples’ lives, but if we are entertaining them, that’s as much as I can contribute in this life.
For me, drag is all about making people happy and entertaining.
There is no such thing as an attention span. There is only the quality of what you are viewing. This whole idea of an attention span is, I think, a misnomer. People have an infinite attention span if you are entertaining them.
I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
Well, it’s not hard to be number one entertaining Jew. Some of them are quite bleeding bloody miserable, really.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
I respect anyone who’s honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.
I’m trying to be entertaining without being mean
It’s a battle with himself and with the ticking finger of the clock.
I firmly believe that emotions are universal, and I know that when they connect with the audience, it works. There is no such thing as an entertaining or a serious film; there are good films and bad films. Good films will always find a vast audience.
If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.
I got into film-making because I was interested in making entertaining movies, which I felt there was a lack of.
What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas.
Robert Altman’s ‘Nashville’ is my all-time favorite film because it covers all the bases – it’s original, moving, and has something to say, but also funny and incredibly entertaining.
If you’re going to make a comedy and if your sole interest is in making people laugh and feel good and entertaining them, then you check your ego at the door.
I’ve been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I’m a dancer and my mom’s a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I’d go to see live theatre or a movie, and I’d become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.
I don’t feel like a live set even seems super real for an electronic act like me. It’s not really that entertaining. I’ve seen a lot of my favourite acts take it to a new level with a live band and stuff, which is amazing, but for me, a live set would be boring to watch.
Tact is kind; diplomacy is useful; euphemism is harmless and sometimes entertaining
I really enjoy it – it’s like a videogame on wheels. The GPS touch screen is one of the most entertaining things I’ve ever seen in a car. I still have a Range Rover that I don’t drive much anymore, because I started feeling bad about it.
Things change, although I believe that certain principles – of attacking, entertaining football – should always be protected.
I would have liked to have known Oscar Wilde because I think he must have been very amusing and entertaining.
I like trolls. Some trolling I find very entertaining. The sheer abuse can be hilarious, and so random and absurd.
Probably the biggest temptation that young writers face is to be entertaining, to show your bag of tricks and do a bit of tap dancing. I read a lot of things, and I keep seeing this brocade of voice where someone is trying to be too pally with you or ingratiating on the page.
When I’m working, on stage, entertaining people, or watching someone do something amazing, it inspires me to be the best artist that I can be. I enjoy being around art – whether it be a museum, a Broadway show – or even writing a poem. Those are things that make me feel alive and inspire me.
The most entertaining songs don’t always come from a nice place. In songs where I think I’m being really sensitive, they seem quite boring actually. I’ve found that the songs that come out of nastier, more misanthropic places are better.
I’ve worked my entire career to try to broaden the perception of the WWE. A lot of folks think because we’re so entertaining and oftentimes have such wild and well-defined characters that it’s all we are. It has kind of been my life’s work to tell the public that’s not true.
Even though MMA and pro wrestling are very different, at the end of the day, it’s all about entertaining. They are amazing athletes who go out there and give 100 percent.
Lots of people would say House doesn’t have any charm at all. I would disagree, though: I find him immensely charming and endlessly entertaining. He has a sort of grace and a wit about him, and ultimately, I think he is on the side of the angels.
I’m quite proud of some of the films I’ve done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they’re unpretentious and entertaining. I’m proud of having made unpretentious choices.
Man didn’t put me in this place [in entertaining industry]. I’m in this position because of God. And so, if man didn’t put me in this place, I really don’t see no man that can take me out of here.
I spent a lot of time doing really unimportant work as an actor. It was important when I started writing that I obviously make it entertaining, or no one is going to go see it – but to really make you think, that is my goal.
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.
We want Bellator to be a destination for not only the top-tier fighters in the sport, but the first-choice destination for fans to see the most entertaining fights in the sport.
I’m not comfortable with just entertaining. Although I like entertaining, I also like bringing forward the truth of our times as minstrels used to in the old days.
Learning and entertaining can go hand-in-hand.
‘One Minute Mentoring’ is written in the parable style Spencer Johnson and I popularized in ‘The One Minute Manager.’ It’s an entertaining story about the mentorship between a young salesperson, Josh, and a seasoned executive named Diane. As the characters learn about mentoring, so does the reader.
The Bachelorette’ is always entertaining.
I was always the lead role in plays. I like entertaining people. I like when you’re on stage doing crazy stuff and the audience gets it.
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.
Writing nonfiction of various kinds has been instructive and entertaining as well as paying the rent.
I’m as happy entertaining one person as I am entertaining a million people.
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.
All we can do as players and ambassadors of the game is try to set an example, playing in the right way and make it as entertaining as possible for people watching.
‘Gravity’ is a great example of a movie that we hope they’re going to do more of. It’s really entertaining, with a female star. It’s not the kind of film you typically see, and gives me hope.
Science fiction writers aren’t in the prediction business; they’re in the speculation business, using ‘hasn’t happened’ or ‘hasn’t happened yet’ to create entertaining scenarios that may or may not anticipate future realities.
I basically started performing for my mother, going, ‘Love me!’ What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.
In Land of Milk and Money, Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.
Truth be told, most financial television bores me. Two or more people discussing the latest economic trends or hot stocks is not especially entertaining.
The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining.
I’m a fan of films in general; I mean, I don’t think I’ve ever considered myself specifically a horror fan even though I do enjoy horror films, find them really entertaining.
I’m the know-nothing. I’m curious, I try to be entertaining, I try to translate the techno jargon, but in the end I’m the audience’s representative.
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.
Like Rodgers and Hammerstein, I’m not afraid to deal with themes about the ups and downs of life, yet which are still entertaining, and you still feel these stories.
We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it’s a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.
As I get older, I’m slowing down and, yes, calming down in my desire to be taken seriously. That I can be entertaining and funny and high nervous energy can work against me as a serious composer, slowly but surely you’ll see me be quieter just so that people will listen.
It feels like a lot of times when I’m watching people perform, they’re just going through the motions and checking boxes. Costume – good, hair – good, make-up – good, death drop – good; it’s like they’re just going through a checklist of what makes a ‘good performance’ but it’s not entertaining, it’s very disposable.
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.
I went out on the road when I was 12 years old, playing with the Sullivan Family Gospel Singers. That was the summer of 1972. We played Pentecostal churches, camp meetings, George Wallace campaign rallies and bluegrass festivals. As a kid, I had grown up watching quartets that were very entertaining.
I’m excited to watch slope style and halfpipe. And then, of course, when my events are done, I get to go to hockey, which is always entertaining. I also like figure skating. I think every girl grew up watching figure skating.
A little ego can be quite entertaining. But [Alessandro Michele is] a very humble, gentle, kind person. And I think that his humanity would probably surprise a lot of people, because he’s so confident and bold in the choices that he makes.
Regardless of the importance of known evidence to the contrary, the arts are generally regarded as being so much entertaining fluff, a commodity that isn’t a priority in the traditional program of learning. This is unacceptable in a so-called ‘enlightened’ society.
I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull that off. I liked entertaining, but I was always drawn to some kind of technical work – some kind of honest labor.
I would rather be part of something that is entertaining than realistic.
When you’re in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That’s very entertaining for me to do that.
I have zero interest in performing in films to try to convey any kind of message. My job is to be entertaining. There’s a very different point of view about messages in films in Europe than there is in the States. Audiences rebel because they feel that they are being preached to.
The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I’m totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.
Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.
After being impaled by a javelin, while officiating- I’m doing fine now, just resting and hanging around.
Music. It has always showed me that I could do what the other kids couldn’t do. So I will keep playing and singing and entertaining, as long as the good Lord lets me. That is my life.
Hillary Clinton is a dead fish when it comes to being entertaining and alive. Without a prompter and a written script, she’s nothing.
A good story isn’t preachy; a good story is always entertaining.
My husband, Gabriele, is a musician, and I love music, so you can bet it’s a really important part of our home entertaining repertoire, even if it means Gabriele making a really good playlist for a dinner party.
Since the beginning of HQ Trivia, when only 48 people logged in, the chat section was lighting up with comments such as ‘This is so cool!’ So, we hooked those early users with alluring graphics and sound, a fast-paced test of wits, interactivity with a live and entertaining host, and the lure of winning free money.
Although Mr. Trump talks an interesting and entertaining game, rarely do I hear him lay out specifics.
I usually go with roles that I find entertaining. But every once in a while, there comes along a film that has an important social message. As actors, we have a certain responsibility toward our audience.
Mary Decker Slaney, the world greatest front runner, I shouldn’t be surprised to see her at the front
Every video I make, I want to make sure that it’s doing something entertaining or hopefully inspiring or maybe teaching somebody something or sharing my mistakes so that they can learn from them or anything that will make a positive impact in the world.
Whether you’re a believer or not, a flawed biblical epic is going to be more entertaining than a remake of a Paul Verhoeven movie or some third-rate sci-fi flick.
Like baseball, food will never go out of style; we will always need to eat and we will always find it entertaining. I think of food TV this way – all the fun and none of the calories.
I love entertaining and making people laugh. It’s my favorite thing to do.
I’m not a huge TV person, but when I do watch, it’s always after the fact because I like to binge watch. It’s more entertaining for me to watch these characters fresh, after one episode, instead of waiting a whole week.
The American Public is who I’m interested in. Ultimately, if they think I’m good and they think I’m entertaining that’s all that matters.
The only thing I’ve cooked while entertaining is stir-fry.
I believe in entertaining the audiences with whatever I do.
What is best to hope for and what everyone is working towards is to elevate the quality of women’s sport and to bring it to a level where it is seen as something that is very entertaining, something to be admired, to be looked up to, to put it in that level playing field as a product to be sold equal to the men.
With ‘Utopia,’ definitely it’s more the idea of trying to put across a message rather than just entertaining the audience. It’s entertaining as well, but there’s also a lot of other things that are going on.
I would definitely like to continue playing Aquaman. Playing a superhero is a lot of fun. Creating these stories is a lot of fun. I do what I love. And what I love is entertaining people.
There’s something wonderful about entertaining people on vacation. Everyone is there to have a good time.
I watch ‘Shark Tank,’ of course. It’s very entertaining. I think it’s actually good to help people think about the business they might start, and sometimes you get encouraged by looking at someone going into business and saying, ‘Hey, I could do that.’
I do what I do because of Walt Disney – his films and his theme park and his characters and his joy in entertaining.
You want to be entertaining to some degree. But honesty is always entertaining to me.
It is an extremely difficult task to make an entertaining movie, which is completely aesthetic and you can watch again and again.
I would love to do realistic films that are entertaining.
If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.
Films can be entertaining without shying away from exploring something. They can be magical and have fantasy, but also can have enough reality that you can be really emotionally invested.
I think good art should always be entertaining, or at least give pleasure of some sort. And my chief goal as a writer has always been to tell a good story and give my readers a good time.
It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining.
Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I’ve heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
I didn’t read a lot of comic books. But I was into ‘Dandy and The Beano,’ which were like a weekly pulp fiction that featured characters like Desperate Dan, Dennis the Menace, and Billy Whizz – pretty simplistic stuff but very entertaining.
The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.
I feel like every time I do a video I say I want to make it like a movie, I want to make it very entertaining. So I start to just scan in my brain for what I haven’t done before so I can do something unique and ridiculous, and what that song means.
We recognize ourselves in Westerns, … I believe the Western can orchestrate moments around reality. The reality can be as entertaining to us as the lie.
[Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He’s got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.
My dream role would be a role that is entertaining and ‘massy,’ and it should be able to make people laugh and cry and make the audience scared of me and then make them fall in love with me again.
You’ve got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don’t ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique – you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.
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.
From a very young age, my main thing was always entertaining.
Mindless films are usually far more entertaining because the audience just comes for a laugh.
Your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he’s reading or he’s entertaining guests.
I’d like to discover life. Quite frankly I don’t know how to be happy. I have not a clue. I only serve — and I don’t say that with any grandeur. I just serve others through entertaining. That’s when I am happy. I’m not just delighted with myself when I’m entertaining, but I’m happier than when I’m not.
[It] is not that television is entertaining but that it has made entertainment itself the natural format for the representation of all experience. […] The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter but that all subject matter is presented as entertaining. (87)
It can be hard to write a skillfully entertaining fiction, but a great book wants to be more, and wants more from us.
Every day, whether I am teaching or entertaining – I absolutely love bringing different people and cultures together.
Music is a very strong force when it comes to making a difference, as well as entertaining, soothing, and encouraging.
Any fight that Floyd Mayweather is in is going to be entertaining, regardless. People come to see an icon, a living legend, a superstar.
I think the live show is a different kind of catharsis. It’s an event. It’s supposed to be entertaining. To keep myself entertained, I like to play a rock n’ roll show. I still kind of feel like I’m a rock n’ roll musician anyway.
A rollicking good read-THE HUNTER is steampunk with a Wild West feel. Theresa Meyers is an entertaining and witty writer with a fresh, new voice in the genre. THE HUNTER is a fun-filled ride through a world of demons, vampires, and things that go bump in the night, and kept me turning pages until the very end.
Erudite and entertaining, Max Anderson is the perfect tour guide to the world of art. The Quality Instinct is both educational and enlightening from start to finish, the thinking person’s guide to museums. This is a must-read for anyone who wants to truly understand what makes a masterpiece.
I learned that by being entertaining you make a connection with another person.
For me, the most exciting thing is to create good magic that’s entertaining for an audience, and it would be lovely if a magician was fooled as well.
I try to find stories that I would think that everyone would find interesting, and just a good entertaining story, and then if I can find a story that has a raison d’etre behind it that I feel is important then that’s the best for me.
In life, I’m most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.
I’m not against vodka – they just asked us. They put out some story about us entertaining international celebrities with vodka, which of course wasn’t true.
What you do as a policeman might be the right thing to do, but it’s not entertaining. I left that behind me.
I was a popular professor. My teaching ratings were usually good. I could take complicated subjects and explain them in an entertaining way.
Every movie really does have a message. Somebody somewhere is trying to make a point or advance a cause or promote their agenda. There’s nothing wrong with that. They try to do so in an entertaining fashion.
The Wyatts in general are just really entertaining, in a strange type of way.
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.
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.
Ingrid Kristiansen then has smashed the world record, running the 5000 metres in 14:58.89. Truly amazing. Incidentally, this is a personal best for Ingrid Kristiansen.
No matter what you watch, it has an impact. So, why not use this medium to bring great stories to millions of people around the world with the goal of not only entertaining them but inspiring them. That’s what motivates me. That’s why I get up every day.
I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, ‘I spent a night with interesting people.’
My cards do big numbers, I’m always on big cards, I’m always entertaining the crap out of the crowds.
I like projects that are entertaining, where I’m emotionally engaged and there’s something to think about afterwards.
I always deliver on my promises, and I can promise that doing ‘Strictly’ would be as much of an entertaining laugh for the viewers at it would be for me.
Watching two men jib and jab for 12 rounds is not entertaining for me. I want action, knockouts, big shots, and people getting up off the canvas. That’s my ideal fight.
I work very hard at relationships. I’ve done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I’m a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.
My films ought to be judged on whether they’re entertaining or good as films, but not on the political view necessarily. I’m trying to be morally responsible and no more. I don’t have an agenda I’m trying to push.
The avant-garde and the beatniks share in the function of entertaining without endangering the good conscience of the men of good will.
What we do is entertainment. They wouldn’t go to Tom Cruise and ask if his movies are fake. We provide entertainment. I would rather someone tell me I am not entertaining than ask if what we do is fake.
Whoa, what is this? Battle of the Sarcastic and Pissed? Should I make popcorn? Forget American Idol, man. This is much more entertaining. (Kish)
He’s 31 this year: last year he was 30.
Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
I discovered that a diplomat’s life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there’s nothing. So I gave up.
It’s street theater. You have to make it entertaining so people don’t get bored and walk away.
I would love to fight someone like Dominic Breazeale next year. Him or the Polish guy, Adam Kownacki. That’s more of an entertaining one. I love watching him fight. He smiles while he’s fighting and I think that’s the coolest thing to watch.
Layer upon layer, Italy’s storied past unfolds in Robert Kaster’s captivating journey along the venerable Queen of Roads. I cannot imagine a more perfect guide to such a rich trove of ancient and modern memories. Illuminating, erudite, entertaining, and evocative.
For some, a sense of responsibility towards their constituents prevented them from entertaining no deal, or in some cases any form of Brexit, even as their electorate asked for it.
You cannot lift others to virtue on the one hand if you are entertaining vice on the other.
I believe in collaboration. I think that is the most entertaining and effective way to write for me, personally.
Justin Hermann is one of the best new voices in short fiction-deep and entertaining as hell, with many funny lines, unexpected turns of events, and great insights. Wonderful stories: each one is a trip!
I feel like there’s such a responsibility, when you make a film, to enlighten people, to make them think, to make them laugh, or even just to be entertaining.
If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He’s not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he’s really needed.
I have always been interested in entertaining, scoring goals, making things happen, doing things off the cuff, and Chris Coleman offered me that.
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
I am just always trying to pay attention to how to communicate things that may not always be the hot topic issues and ways they can be entertaining and engaging. That’s what I think has always been my passion, even if it comes to the type of music that I do.
If you want to be a singer, you’ve got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can’t be a well driller, too. You’ve got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don’t ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
It’s entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because… he has no idea.
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.
I want my films to be entertaining: not comedy, but something which is gripping.
I wanted to do something that was entertaining – but with a catch.
Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.
A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats
I’m part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new.
Aside from the nagging, he’s the most entertaining hallucination I’ve ever had.
I do interviews and try to be entertaining.
You don’t run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
E-40 is another person I love working with because he is so entertaining.
I personally love grilling, but it’s a 15- to 20-minute commitment in entertaining.
If you’re sitting in your minivan, playing your computer animated films for your children in the back seat, is it the animation that’s entertaining you as you drive and listen? No, it’s the storytelling. That’s why we put so much importance on story. No amount of great animation will save a bad story.
Without earnestness no man is ever great, or does really great things. He may be the cleverest of men; he may be brilliant, entertaining, popular; but he will want weight. No soul-moving picture was ever painted that had not in it depth of shadow.
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.
Wealthier countries have the luxury of entertaining fears the rest of the world cannot afford.
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.
You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes
I want to get up there and tell entertaining stories but that are also to a certain extent clean.
Being a decathlete is like having ten girlfriends. You have to love them all, and you can’t afford losing one.
I believe that doing movies like this is positive because they can inspire and be entertaining.
It was endlessly entertaining, watching people beat each other up. All the little kids in the neighborhood would come and watch… and then we’d beat them up as well.
I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.
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.
That’s one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty engine. That’s only one thing you can do with it, but it’s one of the things I find most entertaining about it.
I don’t see why a book shouldn’t be intellectually sound, entertaining, and fun to read. Historians who write academic history, which is unreadable, are basically wasting their time.
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!
One movie I think is just terrific is ‘Bernie,’ with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me – so witty, so entertaining, a true story, and I’m not a great Jack Black fan, but he’s great in it. I think it’s a gem.
I dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy of freedom, I seek it more fully now for my people and for all people everywhere.
When autumn returns with its long anticipated holidays, and preparations are made for a scamper in some distant locality, hammer and notebook will not occupy much room in the portmanteau, and will certainly be found most entertaining company.
TV is a responsibility, not only in entertaining people, but using this medium of television in positive ways to teach people and enlighten people.
No matter how happy or hopeful I am, I always tend to drift back to that. It’s underneath all the music I’ve ever written… An artist is trying to tell you how he’s feeling. And if that accidentally becomes entertaining, it becomes a career.
Braxton Cosby’s stories feel personal and well thought-out. I’m happy to welcome this entertaining writer to the YA science fiction field. I look forward to more of his work!
The research in Ralph Keyes’ The Quote Verifier is impressive, and each conclusion is like the solution to a real-life historical mystery. Who knew a reference book could be so entertaining?
In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.
The movie has to be going somewhere. Other than that, you want it to be entertaining, but people usually disagree on what entertaining is and everybody has different tastes.
With ‘Lucha Underground,’ it’s really tight, and you don’t need to fast-forward. Everything you’re watching is important and entertaining.
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.
Fiction is supposed to be immersive and supposed to be entertaining and narrative, so structures have to be buried a little bit. If they come foregrounded too much, it stops being fiction and starts being poetry – something more concrete and out of time.
Reality TV is set up to make people entertaining. A good person with values and principles is not good television.
Each one is different. Each project is different. Some are silly, some are not. Some are more realistic, some are not. Some are overly dramatic, some are not. You’ve just got to try and find the thing that’s most engaging and entertaining in whatever way, shape or form, and it’s different every time.
I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, I spent a night with interesting people.
When I was 14, I saw ‘Terminator 2.’ My mind was blown. What a beautiful movie. I found it really deep and also so entertaining.
Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.
I didn’t want to just write stories that were entertaining. Nor did I want to be so scholarly that people couldn’t digest it.
Once I did a film like ‘Verna,’ which was emotionally draining, I knew I needed to do something lighter and entertaining.
This is something I love to do. I’ve never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.
I like hanging with my family and helping them on their way however I can. There’s a new tragicomedy every half-hour, there is laughter, there are tears, and it’s all real. They are endlessly entertaining, they have given me so much, they’ve given me a chance to ‘see’ things again.
I like televangelism shows. I find it entertaining sometimes to see how a young person would deliver the word versus a old person.
I just love being in front of the camera making people laugh, cry, entertaining them. It’s the ‘nasha’ of performance that I enjoy. It’s my calling, and I’m blessed to be able to do that for a living.
I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?
I love entertaining and I love storytelling.
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.
Any woman who diets all the time can’t help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
I just love the subversion of dialogue in sitcoms, stand-up is monologue and that is entertaining for a lot of people but personally I find it a bit trying, which is a weird thing to say as a stand-up! I love people aping normal conversation and twisting it so it becomes hilarious.
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.
My jiu-jitsu style is definitely not the most entertaining one, so I’d rather do boxing and entertain the fans a little more.
I will admit that I often spend weekends after each ‘House of Cards’ season is released binge-watching the show for hours. But I watch it because it is entertaining, not because it reminds me of my day-to-day.
My grandparents would have big, long arguments that were entertaining and that’s where I first noticed, and was thrilled by, political discourse.
If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
It was a challenge for me to play somebody who was so quiet and receding and depressed because she’s also on screen all the time, and she has to remain compelling and entertaining. I was really nervous that people were not going to stay with me while I was just staying behind that bloody
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I don’t approach my movies with a target audience in mind. I try to make something that’s true to the subject matter as much as possible, while still being entertaining and fun.
Who knows most, doubts most; entertaining hope means recognizing fear.
Lots of people expect ‘Andhadhun’ to be a dark film, given it’s from Sriram Raghavan. But this film is fun, entertaining, thrilling, and while it has moments of darkness, overall it’s not a dark film.
Keegan was definitely an attack-minded manager and at times for a fan it must have been crazy because it was entertaining but at the same time we were quite open and conceded goals as well.
‘Derry Girls’ just has a sense of knowing exactly who these people are and also a fun memory of how things were, even in spite of all the chaos around them. It’s very entertaining and it stays wonderfully buoyant because it focuses on the kids and the families.
Uzo Aduba over at ‘Godspell’ is doing an even more entertaining Donald Trump than Donald Trump’s Donald Trump.
I commend Chris Brown and Soulja Boy for going out there for so many years and entertaining the people.
When an actor constructs reality, it has to be riveting and entertaining. There has to be an emotional connect with the audience.
The more popular and entertaining college basketball is, the more popular the NBA would be.
I am influenced by books which dont have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
We were an entertainment brand, and if we were going to compete in an era of incredible growth in the cable industry, I felt we actually needed to be entertaining.
Autobiography of a Yogi is justifiably celebrated as one of the most entertaining and enlightening spiritual books ever written.
The goal has been not to get pigeonholed. I like working in different genres. I’m gonna try to be entertaining and funny and do my usual thing.
My character is such an entertaining character that it is a whole other element to the show, so once they put me and Carmella together it was like, okay, now I have something to do.
My love of entertaining and cooking truly came from traveling.
I don’t like the word “experiment” in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
I’ve never done anything bad. I can’t do anything bad. It’s got to be professional. It’s got to look professional. It’s got to read professional. In other words, it serves its purpose by entertaining a reader.
I think surprises make TV entertaining.
If Diane Modahl was 40 times over the testosterone limit she’d have a deep voice and we’d all be calling her Barry White.
Spike is an entertainment company. So why not have entertaining fights when you can do them?
Bill O’Reilly is smooth. He’s one of very few broadcasters I know who can squeeze a weeks-long news cycle from one incident and make it entertaining regardless the time stamp.
Comedy is just complaining in an entertaining way, Enterplaining.
Paranormal fiction offers authors – and readers – the chance to answer the question, what if? All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.
A truly international field, no Britons involved.
Steve Ovett, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram – the vanguard of our cream
Miles clutched Quinn’s elbow. “Don’t Panic.” “I’m not panicking,” Quinn observed, “I’m watching you panic. It’s more entertaining .
My whole approach in calling a game is that you want to be fun and entertaining, but you also want to be the voice of reason too.
It is easy to get carried away in this Twenty20 era and think Test cricket has to be entertaining all the time.
It’s always great to do a movie that you find is entertaining, but also can give some sort of political or social message.
Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.
I think that short films often contain an originality, a creative freedom, an energy and an invention that is inspiring and entertaining. I think they are, as Shakespeare put it, a good deed in a naughty world.
In Mexico, audiences want to see a big discussion around a film – what we expect from Hollywood films worldwide is more of an entertaining show. ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien’ was a road movie and comedy, but it had a very strong political connotation that sparked a discussion in Mexico that is still going on.
It’s not enough just to be real; you have to try to make it interesting or entertaining.
On the ВЈ20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.
When you limit the length of the video to something under two minutes, it gives everyday people an opportunity to make something entertaining. It’s harder to tell a story or create an entertaining piece of content that is based around the time slot model, television shows being 22 minutes long.
If you look back at people like The Rock there are times when earlier in his career he was doing heel stuff and he was so entertaining that people cheered for him. The natural thing to do was turn him babyface.
I love entertaining old school. It’s how I feel the most comfortable, because it’s what I experienced growing up.
My name is very often associated with parties and entertaining, but it’s not true. I am not such a party person.
I feel like I’m absolutely insane, and I don’t think I could probably do anything else. I just love entertaining, and I feel like pretending to be people… and having that as a job is crazy.
Every filmmaker’s just going to keep trying to make it the best you can make it: make it as potent and interesting and entertaining and exciting and tough and sexy as you can.
I don’t think you’re ever ready to read your life back to yourself and try to make it entertaining for others.
I don’t work any different in Japan than I do in the U.S. Some guys do, but if you’re entertaining, you’re entertaining, and if you’re not, you’re not, and that plays worldwide.
Character is always my driving force. And to tell a good story and to provide an entertaining read.
I want to do entertaining films, where a woman gets the respect of being an actor.
The more those young fans get to understand that, ‘Hey, this guy does some of the same things I do,’ it creates a lot of interest and a lot of belief that they could become future big-leaguers. That’s really where it starts, inspiring, entertaining and connecting with those young fans in a way that they can understand.
I think that anybody can go home, put the record on, and listen to it note for note, but there’s very little entertainment value in that, I believe. When you give people something visually entertaining to watch along with presenting the music, I feel it makes it a lot more interesting.
Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special – and True – is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message.
We just want to see entertaining, exciting games, and we want the officials to do a good job.
I do enjoy my own company. I cannot imagine anybody entertaining me more than I do. If it sounds selfish, I don’t care. I made it a religion almost.
When you are in a good theatre show, it is a wonderful and very fulfilling experience, entertaining a large audience and their showing their appreciation for your efforts.
Vlogging is something that’s pretty entertaining. But like with a lot of social media, I just feel it’s so easy to stop living your life, even though you’re creating all these moments.
If you take ‘Agni Natchathiram,’ it is about two half-brothers and their emotions and those are genuine, which can be made into a very hard-hitting film just that it can be presented in an entertaining fashion. Similarly with ‘OK Kanmani,’ it is a genuine film; it is not a flippant film just for commercial purposes.
Pope Francis has stressed humility and austerity – a far cry, according to many, from the predecessor’s bling and Ferragamo shoes – those were pretty entertaining. And he’s translating all of that into a policy agenda.
MMA is all about putting on a show and entertaining the fans, and that’s the one thing I’ve known from the get-go.
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience – experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
Everybody did something. It was very entertaining. We had a lot of fun. Lot of fun. And there was no segregation, that I could see. I never saw any
I love entertaining people and this is entertainment.
At least it’s really entertaining when I embarrass myself.
If a film is entertaining, it will work irrespective of anything. It should be entertaining and engaging; otherwise, it becomes a documentary.
I used to struggle a little bit with the idea of how to separate singing from acting and entertaining.
One would think that it would be very easy, with an iconic character like James Bond, to keep making the films, but it hasn’t been. But, it sure has been entertaining and rewarding.
When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.
Now, having had this experience, I can’t say really what they were looking for. I don’t know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.
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.
If we knew what we were doing we wouldn’t be entertaining.
I grew up watching stand-ups and thought it was so entertaining and unique – you didn’t see that as a job description anywhere.
To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.
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.
People ask if I feel pigeon-holed by always doing the same kind of humorous role. But my tool has always been humor because it’s the most entertaining way to put any ideology across, and it’s fun, and it’s positive, and it’s a healer. Laughter is God’s gift. I feel privileged to be able to do it.
In Alien, Sigourney Weaver’s role was written for a man. In Salt, Angelina Jolie’s role was written for Tom Cruise. These things, when reversed, do prove to be just as exciting and entertaining with women in leading roles.
For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they’re building their companies and how we can help to make them better. That’s the one thing in the world – well, I love doing that.
Stop entertaining those vain fears. Remember it is not feeling which constitutes guilt but the consent to such feelings. Only the free will is capable of good or evil. But when the will sighs under the trial of the tempter and does not will what is presented to it, there is not only no fault but there is virtue.
I think Phillip Schofield would be great on ‘Strictly.’ He got up on ‘This Morning’ once with Holly and did a bit of a boogie and he can dance, and he is entertaining, and he is such a nice guy.
One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.
What is really important for a woman, you know, even more than being beautiful or intelligent, is to be entertaining.
If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.
It doesn’t matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie’s not entertaining, if the story’s not entertaining.
Ma did a play called ‘Entertaining Strangers’ when I was about 14, which totally changed my life, I loved it so much.
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.
Reading and writing isn’t supposed to be this exclusive club; it’s just supposed to be entertaining.
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.
The quality of players – the likes of Sam Tomkins, Rangi Chase and Lee Briers – bring an X-factor to the game. It’s highly entertaining and it’s something probably that the Australian game lacks a bit.
Los Angeles is a good city in which to be a reporter. Always entertaining, always an incubator.
People won’t stop painting, just as they won’t stop making music or dancing. This is a facility we have. Children don’t stop doing it or having it. On the other hand, it seems we don’t need painting anymore. Culture is more interested in entertaining people.
It is probably impossible to think without words, but if we permit ourselves to think with the wrong words, we shall soon be entertaining erroneous thoughts; for words, which are given us for the expression of thought, have a habit of going beyond their proper bounds and determining the content of thought.
It is my hope to teach my students how to work a match and at the same time put on an entertaining show that you aren’t embarassed to bring your kids to.
I’m not against gifts that entertain, but I really believe that some of the most valuable gifts that we can give are the things that help us to develop a skill and be entertaining.
I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don’t want to make fun of people.
Ric Flair is one of the most entertaining guys to sit down with and by entertaining I don’t mean he has catchy phrases, but that he’s been through so much and his experiences are so genuine I could listen to him talk all day.
The important thing is to win the title, and if we can do it with style and by entertaining, it’s perfect.
Both of my kids have my sense of humor – they’re definitely entertaining.
Its the details and the human element that makes Recount entertaining. Even though we know how the election ends, it plays like a thriller. Its also funny.
A Fantastic Woman’ has been seen as very interesting and entertaining. The film has had very good reactions. We are very surprised and delighted how the characters have connected with so many people.
I’ve an irritating chuckle, I’ve a celebrated sneer,
I’ve an entertaining snigger, I’ve a fascinating leer;
To everybody’s prejudice I know a thing or two;
I can tell a woman’s age in half a minute–and I do
I’ve an entertaining snigger, I’ve a fascinating leer;
To everybody’s prejudice I know a thing or two;
I can tell a woman’s age in half a minute–and I do
I never did music for awards. I did music because I love it and I do music because I love singing and I love entertaining.
I don’t attribute any ‘luck’ to ‘Bol Bachchan”s success. It was an entertaining commercial film which was bound to do well, and I guess I have the knack of picking up such universally appealing, fun masala movies which turn to be successful.
I love entertaining people! It’s who I am.
I have late onset ADHD. I take on too much and end up spinning plates, but its entertaining, and it helps you make quick connections if youre a comedian, if you have a brain that can dance around too much.
I’m motivated by entertaining people.
The American’s head are on their chins a little bit at the moment
Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.
Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.
In many ways, I think it’s easier in some ways, or it’s more entertaining or more guaranteed to be entertaining than traditional improvising. Again, because you’re not just you in your body.
I don’t like to be entertaining. I don’t like the feeling of being entertaining. If there was a musical or a comedy that was not just for entertainment but was rooted in something I could relate to on a real level, then I think I would do it.
The danger of the blogosphere is reading only those you agree with. While there are right-wing blogs that are entertaining freak shows, it’s hard to find substantial journalism there.
I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.
Some names to look forward to – perhaps in the future
Everything I write is based on something I’ve personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining.
That makes entertaining television. That is the circus of American Idol . We go for the very, very best and the very, very worst. It’s the boring people that we don’t want to see on television.
I’m an entertainer and I really enjoy entertaining. I think if you’re going to really be what you say you are, you have to really live it, work it, practice it, and think it.
Movies are explorations; they take you on a path, and I think it’s always better if it’s a path that you don’t know, that takes twists and turns that you can’t predict. That’s what’s entertaining about movies. That’s what’s entertaining about novels.
Leave America and you’ll find that the consumers in many other countries enjoy watching advertising. Not because the products are better, but because the ads are produced to be entertaining. Sometimes they are funny. Sometimes they are dramatic. Sometimes they are just beautiful.
The concept of ‘Dhan Dhana Dhan’ is an entertaining one, and I am sure the audience will like it.
I know the one time I tried therapy, I did after a month or two, and I only lasted a few months, because I started to worry about being entertaining. I kept driving there once a week for an hour and I’m thinking “What am I going to talk about today?”
The most followed chef is Delia Smith. She is my age and doesn’t try to be entertaining, she encourages people to learn the basics.
To me if you’re going have a show, it should be a show. It should be entertaining and take you on a journey.
I feel that I owe a lot to SpongeBob and all Bikini Bottom for helping me figure out what I thought was funny and entertaining.
I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It’s one of the strangest but most entertaining things I’ve read about myself online.
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.
‘Top Chef’ is always entertaining – it’s hard to stop watching, like a good hockey fight, but no one gets hurt. It’s great that the format is so inherently dramatic and can make cooking so entertaining to people who might not ordinarily be interested in a cooking show. Good for the industry all round.
I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I’ll leave the scenery chewing to someone else.
Vin brule is a version of mulled wine enjoyed in Piemonte, in northwestern Italy. It’s a perfect choice for holiday entertaining because you can double or even triple the recipe and leave it over very low heat, ladling it out as your guests come in from the cold.
I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.
I don’t need Mayweather, but it is an entertaining fight for the American public.
What I want to impart on any movie I work on is I want to make it entertaining. That’s what I feel I do.
There are so many funny guys, like Theo Vonn or Joe Rogan, making really entertaining podcasts. There is so much value in a Joe Rogan podcast.
My shows are meant to be entertaining, not educational.
I want people to understand, gambling is not a bad thing if you do it within the framework of what it’s meant to be, which is fun and entertaining.
That’s the thing about Michael Moore, when you read his stuff, he’s so sure he’s right about everything; even when he’s wrong, he’s entertaining.
I’m not an artist that vents through my music. I don’t do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose of entertaining.
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.
Series Two of ‘The Paradise’ is meaty and thoroughly entertaining… and yeah, you’re in for a good thrill ride!
I’ve worked ever since I was a kid with a two-bit kit of magic tricks trying to improve my skills at entertaining whatever public I had – and to make myself ready, whenever the breaks came, to entertain a wider and more demanding public.
I want to keep making history, keep entertaining, and keep making guys shake in their boots.
Let’s not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people.
Oprah was famous for going to a garden party and ad-libbing. She could literally interview people for a half hour about nothing, and it was entertaining. She had her own show before she had her own show.
It’s much more entertaining to live books than to write them.
We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.
Nothing’s ever allowed to just be entertaining. We have to talk about it.
No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.
Truth be told, I’m not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it’s been my experience that most people don’t want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.
There’s nothing more fun than entertaining kids.
The great thing for me about ‘The Resurrection of Gavin Stone’ is it’s a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn’t call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.
Akshay Kumar is always on time. He is always disciplined and hard working but also always entertaining, fun behind the camera and also in front of it.
Our minds can come up with the most entertaining possibilities, if we let them. But most of the time, we keep them under far too close a check.
I’m hoping that these series, that originally aired in the 80’s and 90’s, prove to be as entertaining online and on portable devices as they were when first broadcast on network television.
I think I’m a good writer. I think I have my own voice, which is unique to everyone, everyone has their own voice; if they would just write from a vulnerable embarrassing place, it’s going to be universal and it’s going to be entertaining. Because everyone is the same and everyone is unique.
They say the Premier League is best league in the world. Or Roy Keane says we are brainwashed into believing it. He might be right. But I can definitely say it’s the most entertaining league.
Most songs are not true. They’re just to be entertaining.
The feeling of the early ’90s… I think it was more… It was real. It was gutter. It was more entertaining.
When you’re entertaining all day long and that’s your work, you end up really very tired. You don’t have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.
I try to encourage people to really love what they do, like when it’s about being a part of this business [entertaining], love what you do because it’s not going to always be defined by who you are. It’s going to be a lot of times your good name walks in the door before you do.
I try to make a film that’s very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest thing I have to offer is my point of view, to get across how I see the world in hopes that it can change the way other people see the world, hopefully for the better.
My sincere hope is that ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door to begin their own explorations.
Some things were too hard to believe, however entertaining they might be to hear or read.
I really loved to sing all the time, and I was constantly entertaining. Finally, my dad saw an article in the local newspaper in Phoenix, and it was for a children’s theater, an audition for ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.’
My philosophy as a filmmaker is to inform and entertain at the same time. And when I went away from documentaries into miniseries like ‘Roots,’ I did the reverse. Instead of just entertaining, I want to inform at the same time.
We don’t have much in the way of a business strategy. Like no business plan. Which I say to torment all my friends who are VCs or MBAs. That’s always entertaining. The deal is, it’s a mixture of luck and persistence.
I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining.
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.
I know Americans talk a great deal about the price of things – more, I consider, than is entertaining, sometimes!
I am really fascinated by human beings, fascinated! One thing I loved about living in New York was that I could sit on my stoop and just watch life happen. It was better than any kind of reality television – way more entertaining and enlightening.
Suddenly, I was thirty, very unhappy entertaining people in their forties, and here came a group of people in their teens and twenties who had similar anti-authority problems and similar dreams and wishes, hopes for mankind. So I gravitated toward them.
My siblings were a bit younger than me, and I was always entertaining them and making up stories.
The English have a special sense of humour. This I immediately experienced in the dressing room. As I walked with two plates while eating, suddenly a team-mate asked me, ‘Basti, what time is it?’ hoping I would automatically turn my hand to look at my watch. That’s quite entertaining.
Entertaining and being onstage is such a rush; it’s amazing… and I just hope that it can last, and last for a long time.
My work is not for everyone, but I think if people give it a try, they may be surprised by how entertaining it is.
Be the leads of big films that are entertaining and maybe then cross over to stuff that moves people and has a little bit more texture to it.
