Christopher Lloyd Quotes

Being performers, that's what we do: We put on shows and want people to watch.

I'm all for big production - I love putting on shows.

I think television defeats ventriloquism.

I never envisioned that I would be able to bring something to the entertainment table that would fit Las Vegas. Vegas is so presentational; it's live theater and, for me, it's always been film or television, which isn't why people come to Las Vegas. So it's exciting to be apart of all of this, the thrust of the entertainment of Vegas.

Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.

I have no arguments to defend how brutal and disturbing a ritual the corrida is. Like all tragedies, no matter the beauty created, there are no happy endings. If it is indeed an art form, bullfighting is the most disturbing I have ever witnessed.

In the grand spectrum of things in WWE, you are wrestling for that camera and that camera and that camera - and all the cameras they have - and you have to make things work that way because, through that camera, there's a million people watching.

We're in the entertainment business. As much as people would like to say it's sport, it's definitely entertainment.

The stuff that is done on Broadway is hardly theatre. It is part magic show, part rock concert, and part conjuring things.

The AT&T commercials are the most fun acting opportunity that anyone could ask for. That being said, directing exercises a part of my brain that is really fun that I don't get to try out as an actor.

Content is getting its due respect. Our audience wants to see characters on screen and want to see actors play new roles, adapt different body language.

I'm not an artist that vents through my music. I don't do it to relieve stress. I do it for the purpose of entertaining.

Earlier in my career, I just wanted to be an entertainer.

I made quite a lot of money in commercials and I decided when I got out of school to take singing lessons so I could get into singing commercials, too.

Whenever you do big stuff in the ring - a big move or a big hit - you have to let that moment breathe. That allows a moment to sink in for the fans so they can reflect on it.

I don't fight to win or lose. I fight to entertain people.

I have hosted many shows in the past. Anchoring is something I really enjoy; hence, when I was offered to host the show 'Super Dancer,' I was excited to take it up.

Drag queens don't work well outside. We're designed for spotlights, not sunlight.

You have to have a big ego in this world to propel yourself in front of the cameras, to sit behind the microphone, to believe that you can entertain millions of people.

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.

Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock & roll.

You can't have a good bullfight without a good bull.

I call it 'new forms'. When you're starting out, they ask you to do four or five minute sets, but once you're a headliner, you do like 90 minutes. I try to think of different things to divvy up the show, like doing drawings, playing music... I gotta carry the show, that's the problem.

I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks - that's show business.