The time for frivolous entertainment has passed. You can be entertained while at the same time learning from and growing with the people around you.
We’ve just got to be careful – with all sports, let alone cricket – I think there’s so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.
I think a lot of the fans want to see the high-flying action and be entertained. I don’t think there is a better division out there than the cruiserweights to do that. It could be a pigeonhole for some, but at the end of the day, it’s about whatever makes you happy as a performer.
For my tribe, the people I found years ago, we’ve found sanctuary in the irreverent, in the off-center, in the quirky… And that’s how we stay entertained, and that’s how we stay engaged in what would otherwise seem to be a really cruel world. A really harsh world.
Vegas is kind of crazy because there’s so much going on. Everyone goes there to be entertained.
My purpose is to entertain and please myself. I feel that if I am entertained, then there will be enough other readers who will be entertained, too.
I have to be entertained by what I’m writing, so a lot of my stuff has a goofiness or scatological quality. If these characters can entertain me, then I feel like I can deal with the darker or more serious stuff.
I love watching great TV, whether it’s to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
Americans love to be entertained, often at the expense of our judgment, morals and values.
I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
Terre Haute. They used to call it ‘Terrible Hut’ because it was so wide open. Gambling, red light district, speak-easies. I entertained for all the gangsters. Can’t name a gangster that didn’t come into the place where I worked.
Whenever you do a film, it’s always like a little miracle. So many people getting together trying to do something so that the audience can be entertained.
That’s the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you’re entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That’s why it’s the best game.
Baseball is called ‘America’s Pastime,’ but you could argue WWE and wrestling is very similar. We’ve been around since the carnival days. People want to be entertained. It’s obviously two different sports, but everyone appreciates the athleticism of another sport.
Entertaining audiences is of prime priority for me. If they feel entertained, through that I get appreciation and my talent is therefore proved.
I think that you have to keep the reader front and centre if you’re going to write something that people are going to love and be entertained by.
I never left my street until I was 16 years old. I didn’t have to. I was entertained on that street forever. We were outside all day. The only reason to go inside was to sleep and eat.
I’ve often entertained paranoid suspicions about my fridge and what it’s been doing to my poetry when I’m not looking, but I never even considered that my fan was thinking about me.
I’ll be honest – I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.
I’m a huge fan of the films of the ’70s and even into the ’80s, Sidney Lumet, all those films that used what was going on in people’s lives as drama. And not only are you entertained, but hopefully have a greater understanding of your world coming out of it.
If an audience is watching you and you’re a bloke – it’s the same as if you’re a woman. They’re expecting the same: to be entertained.
Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber.
When I’m making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.
At the end of the day, audiences just want to laugh and be entertained. They want to escape from their reality, and that’s why we make movies, to get people to escape from the realities.
I want people to come to Clipper games and smile. I want people to come to Clipper games and be entertained and dance and laugh.
Enjoy the films I do, get entertained, get your money’s worth, and when you leave the theatre, leave it all behind!
As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don’t want to be taught lessons, and I don’t want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
When I listen to a script, it has to be entertaining. People who come to theatre should be happy and entertained.
In the end, my reasons for moving down the timeline and introducing a new cast have more to do with keeping myself entertained, on the assumption that if I get bored, my readers are going to be even more bored.
I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I’m often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
I’m sorry to see Balotelli waste his talent the way he does, but I think he can keep people entertained by scoring goals.
We’re human beings, and we want stories. We’re always going to be entertained and have our emotions touched by humanity and by things that we recognize in our own lives. So whilst every now and again we’ll be happy to watch a bubblegum film, it’s never gonna be the only things that get made.
The very act of questioning whether you exist proves you do, because you must be there for the doubt to be entertained in the first place.
I think you have a duty and a responsibility to entertain. We have to always remember that there’s a public to be entertained.
I never really saw my dad as entertained as when he was just completely blown away by somebody on the television screen or at the movies. I think that’s the real reason that I went into acting.
I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
Americans of all ages embraced TV unhesitatingly. They felt no loyalty to network radio, the medium that had entertained and informed them for a quarter-century. When something came along that they deemed superior, they switched off their radios without a second thought.
The generation we live in, we’re constantly entertained – we turn our heads this way, and there’s something else to entertain us. Sitting down in one seat for two hours may not be enough anymore.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your home.
Our ascendancy of the past two centuries – first Europe and then the U.S. – has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S.
We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.
Is it possible that literacy standards are falling because young Australians are growing up in a culture in which they can be entertained and informed, and in which they can communicate effectively, without having to master any but the most rudimentary literacy skills?
These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I’m washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you’re driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
I’m an addict. I’ve been one my whole life. Most of it was channeled in the right direction, whether it was playing basketball or working out. From the time I was little, my mom said I always needed to be entertained.
When I was writing ‘Southeastern,’ I’d just recently gotten sober. For me, that was a major turning point in my life. It changed things I did on a day-to-day basis. My whole routine was upended. It took me some time to get used to that and figure out how do I keep myself entertained.
I just want my audiences to be entertained and feel like they’re part of the show. I want to show them a good time and create an experience they’re going to enjoy.
During all the years I entertained at the Baby Grand night club in Harlem, 90 percent of the audience was white. But when I tried to break Into television, I was told that white folks wouldn’t understand what I was talking about.
People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
I’m a comedy geek so anything comedy related, whether that’s standup shows, improv shows, I’m all over that. That’s my favorite way to be entertained always.
You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.
