Quotes about entertainment
43 quotes from 39 people
Fred Allen1894–1956Attributed in Newsweek, 14 January 1980.
Federico Fellini1920–1993I’m a Born Liar (2003), “Television”I am a great friend to public amusements; for they keep people from vice.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Johnson (Boswell) (1772)People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.
George Carlin1937–2008When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Alfred Hitchcock1899–1980National Observer (15 August 1966).
Steve Jobs1955–2011Interview in Macworld magazine (February 2004)
Rod Serling1924–1975First introduction to The Twilight Zone television series; first episode (2 October 1959).
Umberto Eco1932–2016“Can Television Teach?” in Screen Education 31 (1979), p. 12We glorify killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment.
Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)- BBanksyborn 1973Wall and Piece (2007)
Gene Wolfe1931–2019Guest of Honor speech at Aussiecon Two (August 1985), as published in Castle of Days (1992)
Saul Bellow1915–2005“A Second Half Life” (1991), p. 326
Gene Roddenberry1921–1991Interview (20 September 1988), included in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, DVD 7, “Mission Logs: Year Five”, “A Tribute to Gene Roddenberry”, 0:26:09)What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.
Roland Barthes1915–1980Mythologies (1957), “Le monde où l’on catche”The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it’s so accidental. It’s so much like life.
Arthur Miller1915–2005The New York Times (May 9, 1984)