The reason I'm in this busines...

The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are -- it's ''Look at me, Ma!'' It's acceptance, you know -- ''Look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma, look at me, Ma.'' And if your mother watches, you'll show off till you're exhausted; but if your mother goes, Ptshew!

~Lenny Bruce~

The Miss America contest is th...

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.

~Gerald Early~

Fun can be the dessert of our ...

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

~Rabbi Harold S. Kushner~

Every country gets the circus ...

Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy gets the Catholic Church. America gets Hollywood.

~Erica Mann Jong~

Compare the cinema with theatr...

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.

~John Berger~

Americans don't spend billions...

Americans don't spend billions for entertainment. They spend it in search of entertainment.

~Source Unknown~

A am a great friend of public ...

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

~Samuel Johnson~