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Quotes about entertainment
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The ultimate sin of any performer is contempt for the audience. (Butler Gerard)
Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown. (Butler Gerard)
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. (Butler Gerard)
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. (Butler Gerard)
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The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. (Butler Gerard)
A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice. (Butler Gerard)
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood. (Butler Gerard)
The essential is to excite the spectators. If that means playing Hamlet on a flying trapeze or in an aquarium, you do it. (Butler Gerard)
In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us. (Butler Gerard)
“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.” (Butler Gerard)
I can entertain you for hours - I hope - and make you laugh and cry. (Butler Gerard)
“I'm into the Play Station now and I just got the Super Nintendo. I like the sports a lot, like hockey and football. I recently got into these solve-a-mystery games. They're like a bad drug. They just chuck two weeks out of your life.” (Butler Gerard)
I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves. (Butler Gerard)
I just think that things should be allowed to run their course, and not turned into a Disney ride. (Butler Gerard)
I mainly drink wine and eat out a lot. (Butler Gerard)
“We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.” (Butler Gerard)
All I really want to do is entertain people out there sitting in the dark and for them to believe it. (Butler Gerard)
I do karaoke. (Butler Gerard)
It's tourists in New York. Everything is geared towards that. It's so hard on Broadway now for them to get people in there. They have to compete with so many other entertainments, so they have to bring a star in which puts people there out of work. (Butler Gerard)
I sang in a rock band when I was training as a lawyer. You know, not professional, we just did it for fun. We just did gigs all over Edinburgh and some in Glasgow and some at festivals. (Butler Gerard)
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