Boomer Esiason Quotes

I have no interest in writing, directing or producing.

More than an actor, I am a performer... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service.

I don't know why people are so surprised by my live performances. My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears or inspiration. Otherwise, why should I do it?

We're on tour to kind of explain why we do what we do, how its done and how we put it together.

I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

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

I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

Strictly' has evolved - there are such beautiful stories within each dance. We're not doing a ballroom and Latin competition, it's an entertainment show.

I like to entertain all kinds of audiences with my films.

Film and TV are the most popular mediums in America. Literature and poetry are possibly the most under-recognized art forms.

I love to be in the entertainment space, and my aim is to create new content and entertain people, whether it's in movies or on TV.

The truth is, a lot of people go to drag shows, really, for very light entertainment, and I think sometimes maybe we don't even give the audiences enough credit as to what they'd be down for.

We're in the entertainment business.

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.

I'm glad that I'm able to entertain and be a part of people watching shows and enjoying the work.

It's such a rare and rewarding thing to be in control of space and time for two hours a night, to go through a journey and take the audience along. There's nothing quite like it.

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

There's a positive side to film and television, the sense of feeding into the theater... Your fans will follow you, hopefully, and be open-minded to see you play other things and experience other stories you want to tell.

A lot of movies are about life, mine are like a slice of cake.

Sometimes you have to listen to other people, and see what the audiences want. That's what entertaining is about.

Yeah... I like films, I like movies, I like playing different characters and working with different actors and filming in different places. I like movies because it's kind of a combination of every art: it's like, it's picture, it's story, it's music, it's kind of like a clash and a collide of every art. It's really neat.

I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.

The greatest artists know how to entertain, or else nobody would read them.

In entertainment, whether it's movies or television or whatever, I'm a great audience, but I don't remember the names of the people I've seen or the groups that I've heard.

Americas are, for a variety of reasons, the most adept at producing the kind of entertainment that delivers easy satisfactions.