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My goal is to entertain myself and others. By Ray Bradbury Goal Entertain

Entertainment is in art like color in pictures. By Martin Kippenberger Entertainment Pictures Art Color

I want to entertain people, but with some substance. By Irrfan Khan People Substance Entertain

But entertaining isn't a sport or a competition. It's an act of love, if you let it be. You can twist it and turn it into anything you want - a way to show off your house, a way to compete with your friends, a way to earn love and approval. Or you can decide that every time you open your door, it's an act of love, not performance or competition or striving. You can decide that every time people gather around your table, your goal is nourishment, not neurotic proving. You can decide. By Shauna Niequist Decide Love Act Entertaining Sport

It's like anything. It's like you're an actor, or a painter, or a writer. You've always got to entertain yourself first before you can even consider entertaining other people. Because if it doesn't excite you, it's never gonna excite anybody. By Noel Gallagher Excite Actor Painter Writer People

Entertainment is all about helping people feel things that they might not have access to normally. They watch something and it makes them feel something, and that makes them reflective about their own life, you know? By Seth Green Entertainment Feel Helping People Things

I have a burning desire to entertain and different mediums allow me to do this in different ways. By Adi Shankar Burning Desire Entertain Mediums

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good. By Stan Lee Singing Song Playing Sports Entertains

It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful. By Nicolas Chamfort Art Fortune Successful Commonly Supposed

This is government. There is no entertainment. By Judy Davis Government Entertainment

Choose your audience... By Annoymous Choose Audience

Life is not trying to entertain us, it's trying to teach us. By Seth Adam Smith Life Entertain Teach

I love to entertain, I love to make people laugh, cry, and move them, perhaps moving them in their lives. By Corbin Bernsen Cry Love Entertain Laugh Lives

It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment, By John Henry Anderson Entertainment Duty Magicians Give

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning. By Herbert Marcuse Entertainment Opposites Learning Effective Mode

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium. By John Lasseter Audience Medium History Cinema Entertained

Entertainment is about taking people away from the regular order of things when there is some chaos and pain and stress. By Michael Jackson Entertainment Stress Taking People Regular

When you use music to worship you are not attempting to entertain. By Cliff Richard Entertain Music Worship Attempting

You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across. By Vince Staples Captivate Entertain Message

The tremendous leisure industry that has arisen in the last few generations has been designed to help fill free time with enjoyable experiences. Nevertheless, instead of using our physical and mental resources to experience flow, most of us spend many hours each week watching celebrated athletes playing in enormous stadiums. Instead of making music, we listen to platinum records cut by millionaire musicians. Instead of making art, we go to admire paintings that brought in the highest bids at the latest auction. We do not run risks acting on our beliefs, but occupy hours each day watching actors who pretend to have adventures, engaged in mock-meaningful action. By Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Tremendous Leisure Industry Arisen Generations

As a classroom community, our capacity to generate excitement is deeply affected by our interest in one another, in hearing one another's voices, in recognizing one another's presence. By Bell Hooks Community Voices Presence Classroom Capacity

Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion. By John Ortberg Amusement Minds Boredomavoidance External Stimulation

If you give the audience what they expect, they'll be bored. There are no rules: You do what you want while respecting the boundaries. You don't poke people in the eye; you do things they haven't seen before and make it accessible, funny and clever. By Matthew Vaughn Expect Bored Give Audience Rules

My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible. By Mel Brooks Job Entertain People

Learning and entertaining can go hand-in-hand. By Wendy Williams Learning Entertaining

The average person is gregarious; there is something in the spirit of the crowd that adds to the enjoyment of entertainment. By Ivor Novello Gregarious Entertainment Average Person Spirit

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment - that which they cannot anticipate. By Sun Tzu Engage Expect Projections People Discern

I used to entertain myself - I taught myself to use stilts and juggle and ride a unicycle. But I was never immediately interested in theatre. By Tobias Segal Unicycle Entertain Taught Stilts Juggle

Novelty serves us for a kind of refreshment, and takes off from that satiety we are apt to complain of in our usual and ordinary entertainments. By Joseph Addison Novelty Refreshment Entertainments Serves Kind

Play is the production of fun; entertainment is the consumption of fun. By Charles Eisenstein Fun Play Entertainment Production Consumption

People come to the theatre to be excited and uplifted - I want to inspire my audience. By Edward Hall People Uplifted Audience Theatre Excited

I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained. By Rosamund Pike Industry Entertained Work Entertainment

Entertainment provides relief. Art provokes engagement. By David Foster Wallace Entertainment Relief Art Engagement Provokes

[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) By Neil Postman Entertaining Television Experience Made Entertainment

It still amazes me how many musicians aren't really interested in engaging with their audience at all. Alfred Brendel, a pianist for whom I have the greatest respect, has described performance as a sacred communion between the artist and the composer. But what about the audience? Music is communication, a two-way street. By Charles Hazlewood Amazes Musicians Interested Engaging Brendel

Entertainment is the greatest socializing force in the world. By Daniel Beaty Entertainment World Greatest Socializing Force

It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways. By Owen Hart People Seat Good Entertain Edge

When mind stuck, entertain your heart. By Toba Beta Stuck Entertain Heart Mind

The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that. By Vince Mcmahon Thrill Public Biggest World Entertaining

Charm, amuse, inspire, tempt, overwhelm, dazzle. Will you earn reward? (195) By Arthur Phillips Charm Amuse Inspire Tempt Overwhelm

Yet entertainmentas I define it, pleasure and allremains the only sure means we have of bridging, or at least of feeling as if we have bridged, the gulf of consciousness that separates each of us from everybody else. The best response to those who would cheapen and exploit it is not to disparage or repudiate but to reclaim entertainment as a job fit for artists and for audiences, a two-way exchange of attention, experience, and the universal hunger for connection. By Michael Chabon Pleasure Bridging Bridged Entertainmentas Define

I just want to entertain; that is my main objective and what comes before everything else. By Pewdiepie Entertain Main Objective

Make them laugh, make them cry, and hack to laughter. What do people go to the theatre for? An emotional exercise. I am a servant of the people. I have never forgotten that. By Mary Pickford Make Laugh Cry Laughter Hack

We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others. By Francois De La Rochefoucauld Bored Boast Conceited Perceive Bore

Being vulgar is fine, but oh please just don't be boring. By Diana Vreeland Fine Boring Vulgar

ENTERTAINMENT, n. Any kind of amusement whose inroads stop short of death by injection. By Ambrose Bierce Entertainment Injection Kind Amusement Inroads

I am seeing a resurgence of entertainment that not only entertains, but inspires, evokes, and moves. I am seeing strength in the ability of artistic expression to change our future. By Ian Somerhalder Evokes Entertains Inspires Moves Resurgence

Speak out your mind and your heart, you won't be bored. By Lights Speak Heart Bored Mind

Ordinary people love entertainment. Extraordinary people adore education. By Robin Sharma Ordinary Entertainment People Love Extraordinary

As an entertainer, my job is to help people have fun. By Gloria Estefan Entertainer Fun Job People

I am trying to give the best performance possible in 400 pages. I want readers to be scared; I want them to be moved. Entertainment doesn't necessarily mean something trivial, but it does mean people wanting to get to the end of a book. By Mark Billingham Pages Give Performance Scared Moved

Well, besides being entertained, I'd like to move them emotionally. I mean I really want to uplift them. I want to look down at the audience, and this is personal experiences now I'm going to tell you. It's like you look down at the audience and see people smiling, crying, hugging each other. I want them on their way home to feel empowered like they can do anything. By Yanni Entertained Emotionally Move Audience Uplift

Good education has got to be good entertainment. By Nicholas Negroponte Entertainment Good Education

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous. By James Taylor Interesting Compelling Humorous Entertainer Things

In other centuries, human beings wanted to be saved, or improved, or freed, or educated. But in our century, they want to be entertained. The great fear is not of disease or death, but of boredom. A sense of time on our hands, a sense of nothing to do. A sense that we are not amused. By Michael Crichton Centuries Human Saved Improved Freed

I am a successful lecturer in physics for popular audiences. The real entertainment gimmick is the excitement, drama and mystery of the subject matter. People love to learn something, they are 'entertained' enormously by being allowed to understand a little bit of something they never understood before. One must have faith in the subject and in people's interest in it. By Richard P. Feynman Audiences Successful Lecturer Physics Popular

To entertain at home is both a relief and a rediscovery - of rooms and settings, of your favorite things, and particularly of your own tastes and ideas. By Martha Stewart Rediscovery Settings Things Ideas Entertain

In fact, entertainment has taken the place of celebration in the present world. But entertainment is quite different from celebration; entertainment and celebration are never the same. In celebration you are a participant; in entertainment you are only a spectator. In entertainment you watch others playing for you. So while celebration is active, entertainment is passive. In celebration you dance, while in entertainment you watch someone dancing, for which you pay him. By Rajneesh Entertainment Celebration Fact World Place

My generation is under-entertained. By Dave Chappelle Underentertained Generation

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him? By Brigham Young Silence Golden Entertain Listen

In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like. By Rowan Atkinson Modern Media Age Rarely Surprised

There are amusing people who do not interest, and interesting people who do not amuse By Benjamin Disraeli People Interest Amuse Amusing Interesting

You instinctively discover how to entertain an audience. By Anna Held Audience Instinctively Discover Entertain

When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre. By Andre Leon Talley Barn Pottery Entertain Summer Rare

There's nothing more fun than entertaining kids. By Jerry Seinfeld Kids Fun Entertaining

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained By Walt Disney Company Hope Entertained People Entertain Learned

A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt ... By Antonin Artaud Senses Liberates Revolt Real Theatrical

The world is a stage, the stage is a world of entertainment. By Howard Dietz Entertainment World Stage

I only entertain very close friends. By Pharrell Williams Friends Entertain Close

A work that intends to be art must first be entertaining. By Katherine Paterson Entertaining Work Intends Art

I want to entertain people. That's my whole life. To my last breath. By Elvis Presley People Entertain Life Breath

Books to enthral as well as entertain By Keith Hoare Books Entertain Enthral

When entertainment works the best, you're creating an apparatus to convey emotions. By John Ridley Emotions Entertainment Works Creating Apparatus

Make 'em laugh; make 'em cry; make 'em wait. By Charles Reade Make Laugh Cry Wait

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation. By Barbara Kingsolver World Bound Turn Inside Entertain

I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people. By Patrick Dewitt Clap People Necessarily Make Stomp

Nothing's ever allowed to just be entertaining. We have to talk about it. By Lena Headey Entertaining Allowed Talk

How to please the public - that's the test,But nowadays I find I'm in a fix;I know they're not accustomed to the best,But they've all read so much they know the tricks.How can we give then something fresh and newThat's serious, but entertaining too? By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Public Fix Testbut Nowadays Find

I think the audience likes to be entertained. By Bray Wyatt Entertained Audience

I want to be entertained, so if I want to be entertained, I know if I'm going to play, I want to make sure that you're entertained and that I'm having a great time. I really do love what I do. By Sheila E. Entertained Play Time Make Great

come to be entertained, but who expect nothing special. By Brandon Sanderson Entertained Special Expect

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. And, of course, my idea of entertaining might not be yours. I'm in complete agreement with all those people who say, regarding movies, 'I just want to be entertained.' This populist position is much derided by my academic colleagues as simpleminded and unsophisticated, evidence of questionable analytical and critical acuity. But I agree with the premise, and I too just want to be entertained. That I am almost never entertained by what entertains other people who just want to be entertained doesn't make us philosophically incompatible. It just means that we shouldn't go to movies together. By Richard Russo Entertained People Truth Told Man

Education is not about Intellectual Entertainment..It is about continuous improvement, inside and outside! By Abha Maryada Banerjee Entertainment Intellectual Education Improvement Inside

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. By Samuel R. Delany Entertaining Instructing Thing Object Secondary

I've seen excitement, and I've seen boredom. And boredom was best. By Terry Pratchett Excitement Boredom

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. By Serena B. Miller Strangers Unawares Forgetful Entertain Entertained

When you go into the theatre and the lights dim, you want to entertain people from beginning to end. You want them to be swept up in your story, on the edge of their seats, unable to wait to see what happens next, be blown away and afterwards just go, 'Wow!' By John Lasseter Dim End Theatre Lights Entertain

Whenever I climb I have to also entertain. By Alain Robert Entertain Climb

I love to entertain. I love being able to make people laugh. By Anneliese Van Der Pol Entertain Love Laugh Make People

I am not fitted to give concerts. The audience intimidates me, I feel choked by its breath, paralyzed by its curious glances, struck dumb by all those strange faces. By Frederic Chopin Concerts Fitted Give Breath Paralyzed

Give people plenty of opportunity to enjoy themselves by emphasizing ways that let people participate in the experience ... By Marty Sklar Give Experience People Plenty Opportunity

Dinner-parties bore us because our imagination is absent, and reading interests us because it is keeping us company. By Marcel Proust Dinnerparties Absent Company Bore Imagination

Every talent has an audience waiting to be inspired and entertained. By Lakaii Entertained Talent Audience Waiting Inspired

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch. By Adrian Grenier Performers Watch Put Shows People

Get bored is not allowed! -Eloise Age 6 By Hilary Knight Allowed Eloise Age Bored

I decided some time ago 'twas far better to entertain than to crave entertainment. By Sherry Lynn Ferguson Ago Twas Entertainment Decided Time

My number one job at the end of the day is to entertain. By Victoria Aveyard Entertain Number Job End Day

The audience is a very curious animal. It is shrewd rather than intelligent. Its mental capacity is less than that of its most intellectual members. By W. Somerset Maugham Animal Audience Curious Intelligent Members

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. By Bernie Mac Entertaining Entertainer Enjoy Work Practice

I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it. By Jack Kirby Entertainment Listen Good Mtv Mozart