Glenn Beck Quotes

Showbiz is just there to give people something to talk about.

I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.

I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin.

I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

If you can find it in you to love how stupid the entertainment industry is, you can have a great career.

Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.

I'm a Hollywood pinhead; I don't know about political labels.

I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found the entertainment business hilarious, ridiculous, and alluring - and my parents supported it, for better or worse.

Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making money, which has gotten out of proportion.

We're in the entertainment business.

I was disillusioned by Hollywood at the time, but now I've come to accept that's just the way things are: it's called show business, not show art.

[E]very time you think the entertainment moguls have hit rock bottom, they reach for the jackhammer and rat-a-tat-tat a little deeper.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

I looked at enough of American Idol in the first weeks, and they're all about humiliation. I listen to Rush Limbaugh because I find it so repulsive. There are people with a little less sophistication who watch a lot of it, because we allow things to appeal to our baser instincts. But at the same moment, give me a little choice, and I'll make a better decision, because I have that ability too. And so does everybody else.

I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture.

There's so much, I guess I want to say, nonsense about show business now. Because of reality television. I don't get this, because I was never raised to get this, but I don't understand wanting to be famous. Maybe it's because I was born famous, but I don't get it.

Last time I was in Canada Celine Dion had just given birth to identical twins. Which is quite an achievement given her age and face.

I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show

The film industry is a cyclical business. Even musicals are coming back.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?