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.
My great-grandfather was a variety hall comedian called Billy Mack.
Political conventions are as fascinating as a circus or a hanging.
It's been really cool to go to places I've never been to around the country and performing for people and bringing a fun show to entertain folks.
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.
People want entertainment, a whole night of it, a whole experience.
I could give a flying crap about the political process. We're an entertainment company.
Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
I think the Norweigan model of municipalities owning cinemas and being programmed by people who know about films is a good one.
As much as I am one for real human interaction, I also want to make a show that's entertaining and that people want to see.
Panem et Circenses" translates into 'Bread and Circuses.' The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.
In the entertainment industry all that anybody wants to do whether it's music or stories or dancing or comedy or whatever, they want to entertain the public. And they do it any way they can. Sometimes they concentrate simply on entertaining people and they don't care what message they are giving.
Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.
I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.
I was sorely exercised in going to their courts to cry for justice, in speaking and writing to judges and justices to do justly; in warning such as kept public houses for entertainment that they should not let people have more drink than would do them good; in testifying against wakes, feasts, May-games, sports, plays, and shows, which trained up people to vanity and looseness, and led them from the fear of God; and the days set forth for holidays were usually the times wherein they most dishonoured God by these things.
(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.
Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and if they play a Quodlibet, or jumble of opera, song and dance, the hearers are so overjoyed that they don't know what to do with themselves. It shows the corrupt taste of the Viennese public.
I think the audience likes to be entertained.
I've always had a thing for theme parks and their less-glorious cousins, amusement parks, the carnival midway, and others of such ilk.
I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
War may be the game of kings, but, like the games at ancient Rome, it is generally exhibited to please and pacify the people.
We're in the entertainment business.
For people coming in through the turnstiles and people sponsoring, we are entertainers and that's where the game is going.
My job is to go out and entertain the most people possible.
