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.
I respect the fact that people have worked hard all week and want to go to the movies on the weekend and be entertained.
The man who accepts opinions because they have been entertained by distinguished people, is a mental snob.
Acting is never done. We're trying to keep it real and make sure that you're entertained and it seems unrehearsed.
A lively understandable spirit Once entertained you. It will come again. Be still. Wait.
Americans love to be entertained, often at the expense of our judgment, morals and values.
If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.
I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
I try to put on a show while being effective because the spectators come to be entertained by beautiful play.
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.
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.
Part of the experience of being entertained is sitting back and plugging into someone else's vision.
If you've paid your hard-earned money to see a gig, you want to be entertained. That's what I wanna give my fans.
I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.
I want people to see my name on a movie, pay money and know they're going to be entertained for 90 minutes.
I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.
Viewers who invest two hours in a superhero movie often leave feeling entertained but somehow dumber.
For me, going to London is like coming home. In fact, I've often entertained the idea of ending my days there.
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.
Rock 'n' roll entertained my head but there was something about country music that touched my heart.
If I was stuck on an island with one artist's discography, it'd probably be Jay-Z's. It would keep me entertained and it has a lot of stories behind it.
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.
As a family comedian, it is so wonderful seeing everyone from kids through to grandparents being entertained by you.
Pet ownership is slavery. Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or be entertained by.
I can possibly say I have entertained and educated more people than anyone else in the world.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
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.
The way we are educated and entertained keep us from knowing about or understanding the pain of others.
I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well.
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
If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.
. . . Americans are the best entertained and quite likely the least well-informed people in the Western world.
I love watching great TV, whether it's to educate myself more on my craft or to just simply be entertained.
The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
I do some things just to entertain myself, and I figure that part of the audience will be entertained as well.
Entertaining audiences is of prime priority for me. If they feel entertained, through that I get appreciation and my talent is therefore proved.
I do what I do because of Walt Disney. Goofy. Mickey Mouse. I never forgot how their films entertained me.
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.
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.
Just after I entered my teens I suddenly entertained an insatiable enthusiasm for the delightful habit of criticizing others.
Young readers have to be entertained. No child reads fiction because they think it's going to make them a better person.
It is very essential as an actor to be a perfectionist and have a knack for doing different roles over a period of time to keep their fans entertained.
Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.
Any idea seriously entertained tends to bring about the realization of itself.
Whenever the child is given the notion that he needs to be entertained, learning comes almost to a halt.
I hope what I do has an art to it, and as an artist you have to try new things and keep yourself entertained.
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.
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.
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 .
The greatest superstition now entertained by public men is that hypocrisy is the royal road to success.
... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.
I think people need entertaining, and they like being entertained. That's all I do. I don't do anything important; I just work in entertainment.
A lot of people listen to podcasts because they want to learn something and be entertained along the way.
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.
I like people to go away from a Queen show feeling fully entertained, having had a good time.
When I listen to a script, it has to be entertaining. People who come to theatre should be happy and entertained.
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.
Most people are at a concert because they want to be inspired, entertained, moved; we musicians have the mission to be bringers of joy, of ecstasy.
People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
Like an audience entertained by a magician, we allow ourselves to be deceived by those with a stake in persuading us to ignore reality.
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