Entertainers Quotes

I loved all the wrestling going on in the ring - I wouldn't be into it as much if I didn't care about that - but I always had an infatuation with the performers and the entertainers.

… satanic music is driven by marijuana, and marijuana smoking by white women makes them want to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and others. It is a drug that causes insanity, criminality, and death — the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind.

Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.

I think some people are born to Entertain. They just have those personalities and they are great at it. Their forte isn't singing so they use auto tune, etc... But they have a lot of talent in entertaining.

There are very few African Americans who have had as much impact on American society as Bill Cosby.

Back when Sammy Davis, Jr. and Dean Martin were doing roasts, they were all friends. They knew each other's children, each other's wives, each other's families. It wasn't about being disrespectful. It was about being funny.

So don’t follow me up and down your market. or your little chop suey ass will be a target. So pay your respects to the black fist or we’ll burn your store right down to a crisp.

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

Jim Norton and Harland Williams always make me laugh.

Both my uncles were in bands, my grandpa was a comedian who wore clown makeup on stage.

The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance.

If you'll see on my social media, I'm never going to get political. I do think there's something about entertainers where it's nice where you just get entertainment.

I got to meet some of the best people I've ever met, and we all grew as people and as entertainers.

There is nobody on this planet who was ever liberated by an athlete or an entertainer.

I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know and having seen what I have seen, to do all that lies in my power to show the dangers and the evils of this frightful institution. [American Slavery]

One day, I'd like to tackle a biopic. I grew up very influenced by Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday, and Nina Simone.

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

You have no idea how much it costs to make someone look this cheap,

I like to think of myself as the middleman between Fred Allen and Henny Youngman.

What I'm saying is that, unlike a lot of portrayals of me, I'm not hiding behind the sunglasses. I'm out there working. I'm not trying to sell anybody anything, but I do realize we're entertainers.

I promise you the country would be in real trouble if I were really in the White House.

I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am one thing, a musician.

Scots are very capable of making up their mind without my tuppence worth.

Oh my God, I could watch Jennifer Coolidge for hours.

I've enjoyed appearing in Atlantic City. East Coast audiences are a bit brighter than Las Vegas audiences. I think most entertainers will tell you the same thing. The East Coast audiences are more perceptive - especially when it comes to a performer with a theatrical background.