Nowadays, ‘Drag Race’ shows how fantastic and amazing drag queens can be, so audiences won’t sit through a boring show anymore. You have to keep people entertained.
You wouldn’t expect it to look at him, but in a life-threatening situation you should always turn to Phillip Schofield. On a desert island he would be perfect. Phil is very practical and would build you an amazing shack as well as keep you entertained with all his hundreds of stories.
When I run a race, I, maybe inadvertently or unknowingly, concern myself with whether the fan was entertained or got what he expected or whether they got what I think they deserved out of me and out of the race.
I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.
We want to see ourselves – but differently. We want to see these dream versions of ourselves. We want to be surprised; we want to be entertained. I think primarily, especially in this country, we ask that movies entertain us, which seems to be something they’re less and less likely to do on a continual basis.
We elected Donald J. Trump to keep us jittery and entertained. He’s delivered.
I tend to think that the whole concept of, ‘I saw this TV show, and someone was wearing this sweater, and now I’m going to buy that,’ it’s something that’s been talked about for a long time, but I’ve never really seen it work. When people are watching an entertainment show, they want to be entertained.
Gambling is entertainment. People go to casinos to be entertained.
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it’s going to make them a better person.
When I am shooting, I am inside the theatre, when I am in the editing room, I am inside the theatre. I always try to feel what they will feel. I see a film, not as a director, but as the audience. If I am entertained, they will be, too.
I love running good because it meets expectations, whether it’s the fans’ or my own. And I know that they come to be entertained: they pull for a particular driver to be entertained by that driver’s success and that driver’s personality, and they relate to that individual.
Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It’s what you do with the medium.
I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a child was, which was enough for me. Everything was so urgent. I needed to say it immediately.
I was very entertained by Betty Grable and Judy Garland.
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.
Rhythm and blues started even before phonograph records were being produced because black people entertained themselves. It wasn’t done for money. It was done for entertainment. Most white people didn’t know anything about this because prejudice kept them from ever seeing what was going on.
I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.
Kids know when you’re pulling a fast one, storywise, and I think that even when they’re being entertained, children want to hear the truth, just like adults do.
There’s a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who’s doing what and who hates who and who’s doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.
I don’t know if I ever entertained an academic career, nor did I ever think I’d become a feature film-maker in the market.
I was nominated 13 times during my 15-week stay in ‘Bigg Boss’ but they couldn’t get me out. That is because I was truthful and entertained the audience with my good sense of humour.
There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
In writing literary fiction, you are trying to help yourself. And readers are going to literary fiction not just to be entertained, but because they feel something else will happen; that the experience will take them beyond themselves and show them something they haven’t seen before.
YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes – or five minutes.
When I make movies, I have a lot of respect for my audience. I think my audience is smart. If there’s a way to be entertained and get things out – real things, not stupid moral crap – that’s the best.
A story invites both writer and reader into a kind of superficial ease: we want to slide along, pleasingly entertained, lost in the fictional dream.
I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.
Most people don’t care if you’re telling them the truth or if you’re telling them a lie, as long as they’re entertained by it.
It might be true that we all like to be entertained, but it’s also true that we all like to be equally touched by a film.
I appreciate artistically made movies, but as an audience member, I want to be entertained, too.
I’ve made a lot of people a lot of money, and I’ve made a lot of people really happy. I’ve entertained millions and millions of people.
I don’t believe in superheroes but I love Batman movies. There’s a part of every person that is entertained by the idealistic, the fantastic.
All I want out of a television show is that I be intrigued and entertained.
All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.
If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn’t a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn’t stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.
There’s an age group that’s just not being entertained – the boomers. There’s a void out there. It’s nice to be one of those who can fill that void.
