Quotes about To be Entertained

You come to my comedy show to be entertained. Votes: 4

People will pay more to be entertained than educated. Votes: 4

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained. Votes: 4

I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles. Votes: 4

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained. Votes: 4

I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained. Votes: 4

I don't need you to be funny. I don't want to be entertained. Votes: 4

Right now, half the world is depressed and they need to be entertained. Votes: 4

I don't need to have someone tell me what I'm going to be entertained by. Votes: 4

People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

I think the audience likes to be entertained. Votes: 3

If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson. Votes: 3

You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained. Votes: 3

In general, Americans like to be entertained. Canadians seem more suspicious of it. Votes: 3

Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world. Votes: 3

There are a lot of young, well-educated, artistic people out there that like to be entertained. Votes: 3

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted. Votes: 3

People want to be entertained when they watch dramas. 'Mistresses' has a mixture of escapism and reality. Votes: 3

It is far easier to be entertained by a reality TV than to participate in our own reality. Votes: 3

All art at a certain level is entertainment. We go to a tragedy by Sophocles to be entertained. Votes: 3

Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt. Votes: 3

I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained. Votes: 3

No one comes to your website to be entertained. They have questions they think you can answer. Content answers questions. Votes: 3

I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes. Votes: 3

I always want to be able to be in a room where I know I'm going to be entertained and challenged. Votes: 3

The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained. Votes: 3

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home. Votes: 3

Priests are very interested in theater in New York! It's this lovely reminder that priests are just people, too, who need to be entertained. Votes: 3

I guess sometimes the truth just isn't worth believing... Personally, I've always felt that life's too short for truth. I'm just here to be entertained. Votes: 3

As a professional, I think we're not being judged solely on technical ability anymore. People really want to be entertained and enjoy what they're watching. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I do not feel obliged in my reading. I read to be entertained and to relax, and to go into another world, not because it's good for me. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

People love a player with ideas, because at the end of the day, the crowd want to be entertained. And with football being only a game, it has to be enjoyable too. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

People are losing jobs, people need to be entertained, and I want to make movies that parents and children can look forward to seeing, that can become a kind of family ritual. Votes: 3

Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people. Votes: 3

In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled. Votes: 3

I want to do something challenging and I want to take risks, but above all, I want people to be entertained...Because the only way of talking about some issues sometimes is through humor. Votes: 3

There are people that entertainment is something they do at the end of a long hard day at work, and they want to be entertained and have it over quickly. They're like, "Entertain me fast!" Votes: 3

I did babysit a little bit when I was young. I prefer babysitting for babies. I always loved babies. I was not as great with kids that wanted to be entertained and that wanted to talk. Votes: 3

We can no longer afford to be entertained beyond the point of accountability. We can't keep selling each other out and be willing to do anything to be seen, to be famous or to be rich. Votes: 3

I was allowed to have an imagination rather than a need to be entertained all the time by television or computers or anything like that. So, I think it's helpful to try and give your kids. Votes: 3

I'm bored. I need to be entertained. Sam is moping. I may kill him with his own guitar. It would give me something to do and also make him say something. Two birds with one stone! Votes: 3

Oil is sixty dollars a barrel. There are terrorists everywhere. We have a catastrophe in our world every ten minutes. I don't know how anybody's getting through anything. Right now, people just need to be entertained. Votes: 3

Disgust with injustice may sharpen the desire for justice. Readers who don’t see this connection merely wish to be entertained, and I have neither skill nor desire to turn the agony of a people into entertainment. Votes: 3

When a performer goes out on a stage, they may feel the audience is judging every aspect of them and their life. In fact, all that poor audience is doing is waiting to be entertained a little. Votes: 3

I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacation. I don't want to quit. I don't want sympathy. The cry of my heart is 'Just Give Me Jesus.' Votes: 3

Australians just don't see that many Australian films, but it's also our responsibility as filmmakers and the responsibility of the funding bodies to remember that audiences want to be entertained, and people are entertained in lots of different ways. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I like to entertain in all aspects. When you're with somebody and you're out, you want to be entertained. I like to be around entertaining people. Even if they're bored, and you're in a convalescent home, there's something entertaining about that, in a way. Votes: 3

I guess with the generation we live in, we just want to be entertained at the end of the day. A lot of artists make themselves accessible, so they feel like every artist should be like that. Some artists shouldn't be so accessible, to me. Votes: 3

I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be entertained, instructed, amused; maybe all three. If he quits in the middle, or puts the book down feeling his time has been wasted, you're in violation. Votes: 3

Culture is simply the hospitality of the intellect. Your mind is open to new ideas and larger views; when they enter, you know how to receive them, and to entertain, to be entertained, and take what they have to offer without allowing them to dominate you. Votes: 3

But the average person doesnt have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They dont want to participate beyond a certain point. They want the safety of the herd, to be catered to, sit back and enjoy. Votes: 3

My job is mostly to entertain and be funny. Votes: 2

People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained. Votes: 2

I could never even entertain the notion that it's an option, to not be an artist. Votes: 2

Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him? Votes: 2

I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained. Votes: 2

If you're going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If you're going to make a scary movie, scare people well. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I'm easily entertained. Votes: 0

My generation is under-entertained. Votes: 0

Are you not entertained? Votes: 0

Everybody is entertained to death. Votes: 0

No one is entertained by economics. Votes: 0

Listening to people keeps them entertained. Votes: 0

I just want to keep people entertained. Votes: 0

One unlikelihood entertained leads a parade of innovation. Votes: 0

I have performed for 12 presidents and entertained only six. Votes: 0

It's funny how human beings are so entertained by crimes. Votes: 0

Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH. Votes: 0

Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself. Votes: 0

We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died. Votes: 0

I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy. Votes: 0

They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ... Votes: 0

In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them. Votes: 0

A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait. Votes: 0

I should be sorry if I only entertained them. I wish to make them better. Votes: 0

I was an activist long before I even entertained the possibility of being an actor. Votes: 0

Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision. Votes: 0

. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world. Votes: 0

...we have entertained ourselves with the pornography of violence and inflamed passions that might otherwise have slumbered... Votes: 0

The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob. Votes: 0

The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success. Votes: 0

I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. Votes: 0

Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by. Votes: 0

The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering. Votes: 0

I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time. Votes: 0

I can't live without a sense of humor. I need to be laughing and entertained at all times. Votes: 0

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained. Votes: 0

The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others. Votes: 0

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained. Votes: 0

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained Votes: 0

As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you. Votes: 0

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. Votes: 0

Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others. Votes: 0

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it. Votes: 0

A lot of people listen to podcasts because they want to learn something and be entertained along the way. Votes: 0

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium. Votes: 0

Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed. Votes: 0

I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me. Votes: 0

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at. Votes: 0

The church that can't worship must be entertained. And leaders who can't lead a church to worship must provide the entertainment. Votes: 0

I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. Votes: 0

For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there. Votes: 0

My favorite brand I have ever artistically collaborated, entertained, and supported over the years is the huge house that Coco Chanel built: Chanel. Votes: 0

... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained. Votes: 0

I question what emotion Manilow touches. People are entertained by him. But are they emotionally moved? I don't believe anything that Barry Manilow sings. Votes: 0

Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality. Votes: 0

I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We know more about Tom [Cruise] and Katie [Holmes] than we do about global warming. We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder. Votes: 0

You are much more likely to have a holy experience in a quiet, focused, and communal context than you are when you are being entertained. Votes: 0

Fergie will sing ballads to the dogs and they'll sit there rapt. You know your wife's a star when she keeps the dogs entertained for 20 minutes. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We are perfectionists. We are hungry to work all the time. We are entertained by every aspect of business and we never want to stop working. Votes: 0

Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense. Votes: 0

I think that people are entitled to be amused, and entertained. If they see deviations from this classical norm, it's probably good for their mental health. Votes: 0

If I'm going to spend the whole night waiting for you guys to stop flirting and shoot each other, I want to at least be entertained. Votes: 0

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us. Votes: 0

If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure. Votes: 0

I never entertained the dreadful thought that my face was anything other than good and fair until, in an act of revelation, I picked up a mirror. Votes: 0

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way . Votes: 0

I still watch 'Idol,' and it's still the No. 1 show, so obviously I'm not the only one who loves to sit at home and be entertained. Votes: 0

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining. Votes: 0

Early on I quickly realized I'd never be the fastest or the strongest, but not once have I entertained the notion I couldn't be one of the toughest. Votes: 0

The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose and from which no apprehensions are entertained. Votes: 0

People have been introduced to our band in so many ways. Whether we were playing at their college or we were the record that entertained their kids with. Votes: 0

I want to be surprised and entertained by a movie, so that's what we're trying to do for the audience. Obviously, we also have to sell the film. Votes: 0

The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor Votes: 0

Love coaxes and even hood-winks us into the making of a decision so radical that if left to our own devices we would never have entertained it for a moment. Votes: 0

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life. Votes: 0

In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper. Votes: 0

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. You find that out really fast. Votes: 0

Of all the purposes of education, I think the most useful is this: It prepares you to keep yourself entertained. It gives you a better chance of an interesting job. Votes: 0

We live in a culture that discourages empathy. A culture that too often tells us our principle goal in life is to be rich, thin, young, famous, safe, and entertained. Votes: 0

The loathing of mankind is a force that surprises and overwhelms one, fed by hundreds of springs concealed his subconsciousness. One only detects its presence after having long entertained it unawares. Votes: 0

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him. Votes: 0

Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Ill 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. Votes: 0

I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only person left trying to do something different and brand new. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I've done 80 books and if anyone has entertained the idea of owning one of my books, I think this is the book that covers all the bases. I'm very proud of it. Votes: 0

Miss Marks, you see, makes her living by...entertaining young, and not so young, sailors...or any other members of the armed forced, or civilians, who enjoy...being entertained by ladies who...entertain. Votes: 0

When the views entertained in this volume on the origin of species, or when analogous views are generally admitted, we can dimly forsee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history. Votes: 0

How could a person possibly become what he is not thinking? Nor is any thought, when persistently entertained, too small to have its effect. The 'divinity that shapes our ends' is indeed ourselves. Votes: 0

It seems that everyone has their own inexplicable fear to have nightmares about. We need nightmares to keep ourselves entertained, and fend off the contentment that we all fear and abhor so much. Votes: 0

The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or those hopelessly incapable of fitting into mainstream society. Votes: 0

People respect us, they love us and they're entertained by us, so it's like when you trust somebody on that level, it's a lot easier to speak some real knowledge into their minds. Votes: 0

Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better than if he took a nap. Votes: 0

Sure, one can always get the students to relax and be happy - entertained, but although being laid back and relax can also lead to creativity, mostly it means that nothing much gets done. Votes: 0

I want people to read them and enjoy the experience and feel entertained. A lot of the best stories revolve around strange people, people whose decisions and logic and circumstances are not easily understood. Votes: 0

In his exciting debut novel, Jerel Law transports readers to a place where supernatural forces of good and evil collide. Young readers will be entertained and inspired by Spirit Fighter. I heartily recommend it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Believe me, you have to have a certain confidence in your powers of descretion to let a dentist loose with a drill in your mouth less than an hour after you've...um...entertained his wife. Votes: 0

Sometimes I forget that I'm supposed to keep people entertained because I'm just making music for my lifestyle and for my people who live my lifestyle. We forget that there's a world waiting on us. Votes: 0

Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them. Votes: 0

There are many who would like my time. I shun them. There are some who share my time. I am entertained by them. There are precious few who contribute to my time. I cherish them. Votes: 0

What's fun about a dystopian novel is that we can enjoy and be entertained. But that world is only slightly different, right? It's familiar enough to be recognizable, and skewed enough to give us pause. Votes: 0

If wishes were held on the skin and swiped by raindrops, then emotions were freeloading off the cells that made up their space. The only offering these cells ever entertained was truth, painful and raw. Votes: 0

So far as I ever observed God's dealings with my soul, the flights of preachers sometimes entertained me, but it was Scripture expressions which did penetrate my heart, and in a way peculiar to themselves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0