I got started acting by going to auditions that my mom found in the entertainment section of our local news paper. Then, I got a manager and started going out on more auditions.
If the American public is so into morality in movies, why don't they throw more of their disposable income at religious-themed entertainment? For every 'Passion of the Christ,' there's a 'Fireproof' that comes and goes with no notice.
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.
Must not I then entertain the saints because I must keep my conscience.
There are very few record companies who will entertain a middle-aged woman coming to them with original material.
My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.
We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
You always try to work for your audience, to entertain them, but that being said, obviously, within the studio system you feel the sense of responsibility to the bank.
She'd always despised the whole other woman thing, but here she was, entertaining the possibility.
Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.
After the gratifications of brutish appetites are past, the greatest pleasure then is to get rid of that which entertained it.
As far as I'm concerned, men like you were put on this world to entertain women like me.
Christmas is a time of sharing, and joy and grace. There's no better time to entertain family and friends than now.
If I or any other black can deliver at the box office, I'll get a lot of work. Too many young actors, regardless of their color, try to play an attitude on camera and fail to remember their job is to fit into an entertainment.
I've always been a family entertainer. Every show I have done has been suitable for any age - parents never need to worry that, if they pop out of the room, I'll say anything untoward.
I went through my rebellious phase, not in my teenage years, but around age 12. The year I decided I didn't want to do entertainment anymore, I was discovered. And I couldn't back down from that.
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.
Rose was sexy. It was my fantasy about her. She accomplished so much and came from so little in terms of a background that would have prepared her for the world, let alone the world of entertainment.
I believe entertainment can aspire to be art, and can become art, but if you set out to make art you're an idiot.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it was fiction.
