Entertainment

The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. – Lester Bangs

The reason Im in this business, I assume all performers are — its Look at me, Ma! Its acceptance, you know — Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma. And if your mother watches, youll show off till youre exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew! – Lenny Bruce

The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition. – Gerald Early

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. – Kin Hubbard

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. – Erica Jong

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course. – Rabbi Harold S. Kushner

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. – Anita Loos

Im the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. – Arthur Miller

Show business is really 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent being able to handle it when it gets offered to you. – Tommy Steele

We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. – James Thurber

Americans dont spend billions for entertainment. They spend it in search of entertainment. – Source Unknown

The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. – Orson Welles