Quotes About Entertainment Industry

“Unfortunately, mainstream news has become infotainment, sharing more in common with the entertainment industry than with traditional journalism. Gossip, characterizations and injections of drama are subtly infused with facts, altering the truth in a similar way to how dramatists twist true stories to create greater excitement.”

— Lance Morcan

“Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.”

— Allan Bloom

“What the entertainment industry can do is tempt you into making stupid mistakes, but the only tool that they have to tempt you is money. So if you're okay saying no to money, then you can say no to a lot of things that you might be embarrassed of later.”

— Paul Schneider

“Our career path has tended to be the most perverse and contrary approach to the entertainment industry imaginable, while at the same time doing the kinds of things that you have to do, the videos, the photos and all that sort of stuff.”

— Peter Garrett

“Growing up in the entertainment industry, I've had a lot of people tell me I'm not good enough.”

— Renee Olstead

“Why does there exist a global American entertainment industry, but there isn't an equivalent coming from France or Italy? This is the case simply because the English language opens the whole world to the American cinema.”

— Andrzej Wajda

“The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.”

— Karrine Steffans

“Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.”

— Finn Wittrock

“It's been quite the experience for two brothers who were Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn, who had no idea that they were going to end up in the entertainment industry. To be where we are now, making features, TV shows and getting a hundred million views online is kind of an amazing thing.”

— Rafi Fine

“I think that the entertainment industry itself has a history of chasing success. Any time a hit product comes out, all the other companies start chasing after that success and trying to recreate it by putting out similar products.”

— Shigeru Miyamoto

“I'm happy to see the United States and China cooperating more and more with movies. The entertainment industry in China is developing very fast. I hope there can be a bridge for actors to work in both places.”

— Li Bingbing

“The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.”

— Gerald McRaney

“Certainly, those of us in the entertainment industry, we are part of creating fear in people - 'fear' for me stands for 'false evidence appearing real.' We create fantasy, and in certain ways that's wonderful because it allows people to escape. But it can suck people into wanting to achieve something that isn't real.”

— Hill Harper

“Nowadays, people in the entertainment industry can have a louder voice than politicians, and I think it's important that they use that voice to say something positive or to give a voice to somebody that's had theirs taken away.”

— Serinda Swan

“Everything that happens on Wall Street only fortifies my opinion that there is in fact a more ludicrous industry than the entertainment industry.”

— Michael Shannon

“It wasn't always easy at times, having grown up on television and being in the entertainment industry.”

— Candace Cameron Bure

“If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.”

— Charlie Pierce

“The Internet is the greatest thing that ever happened to the entertainment industry.”

— Michael Ovitz

“I'll bet Shakespeare compromised himself a lot; anybody who's in the entertainment industry does to some extent.”

— Christopher Isherwood

“We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.”

— Jennifer Love Hewitt

“I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.”

— Clay Matthews III

“I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak.”

— David Boreanaz

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

— Jon Cryer

“My brother started in the music business, and I was an actor - we were both in the entertainment industry, but doing separate things. Then he went over to New Line and started their soundtrack department, that's how he got his foot in the door.”

— Noah Emmerich

“I think, as a woman and as somebody in the entertainment industry, we have to be careful what we're putting out there and what we're trying to say.”

— Jenny Mollen

“The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.”

— Dan Glickman

“I know that I won't be modelling forever, but I think I'll be in the entertainment industry. I would love to host a talk show one day or have a cooking show. I love to cook ... I'm really open, so we'll see.”

— Gigi Hadid

“For more than two decades, Barry Diller has been among the most respected - and feared - figures in the entertainment industry.”

— Alex Berenson

“I'm 25. I'm a white, blonde girl in the entertainment industry - it's so easy to fall into a world of pleasing everyone. I feel more comfortable showing all these odd angles to myself.”

— Brie Larson

“The necessity for 'professionals' in the entertainment industry is being constantly challenged.”

— Jason Alexander

“I work in the entertainment industry, and I like to be entertained.”

— Rosamund Pike

“My family was amazing; they exposed me to the world of show business, and, boy, it was the '70s and I got to spend a lot of time backstage at theaters and see the inner workings of how this entertainment industry is really put together.”

— Christian Slater

“You don't realize it until you go out and take a look, but there are so many ways in which sexism is just allowed in our culture, not just in the entertainment industry. It's just allowed to be there, and that's not acceptable anymore. And I think it's really important to be very vocal.”

— Jenny Slate

“I was experiencing all the success the entertainment industry has to offer, but I knew there had to be something more. It was sort of through that God prepared me to hear about His great plan.”

— Kirk Cameron

“The entertainment industry is terrified of silence.”

— Laura Linney

“In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.”

— Seann William Scott

“I've been in the entertainment industry since I was five and it has always been something that has been in my blood.”

— Stacy Keibler

“People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

“I can empathize with women who feel that [sexism]. I personally haven't experienced it, and I'm grateful for that. I feel very appreciated on the show I'm on, but I do empathize. My concern is less the entertainment industry specifically, and more the general problem that women don't get paid as much as men in any industry.”

— Danielle Panabaker

“In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the entertainment industry. Powerful erotic images are used for the sole purpose of selling consumer products; the side effects of this commercialization have a profound impact on the sexual imagination and identity of vast numbers of people.”

— Robert Lawlor

“I have never felt the pain of not being white the way I've felt it since I've been a public figure/part of this entertainment industry.”

— Azealia Banks

“If we wait for the entertainment industry to change its fundamental values, we may be waiting a long time. But we don't have to wait another day to scale back our own private consumption of television.”

— Michael Medved

“It's common knowledge that in the entertainment industry there's a lot of craziness that goes down, and it's really hard for anyone to stay sane. It's not a very natural environment to be in for too long. It's not very healthy.”

— Natasha Bedingfield

“A career like mine as an actor has a lot of ups and downs. Sometimes you wonder if you're not wasting your time trying to carve out a space for yourself in this crazy entertainment industry.”

— Chris Carmack

“Words alone can rarely justify censorship. If we censor words themselves without looking at the context, we could shut down much of the entertainment industry.”

— Witold Walczak

“The entertainment industry as a whole has given more thought to the pollution of rivers than it has to the pollution of minds.”

— Ken Auletta

“The NRA disgraced itself this morning with a self-serving press event in which they demonized the media and the entertainment industry for gun violence in America, and advocated a national data base for all mentally ill persons. They apparently want armed guards in all American schools, and it seems, armed volunteers as well. Shocking.”

— Anne Rice

“One of the things that's funniest about the entertainment industry and comedy is that people go 'Oh, you're great, but I don't know what to do with you.' The great thing about the Internet is that nobody has to figure out what to do with you. You can figure out what to do with you, and you can say, 'I made this thing, and I'm going to put it out, and now if people want to come see me and buy things from me they can.'”

— Eugene Mirman

“With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.”

— Ted Nugent

“I wouldn't change anything for the world, although the fame part of this [entertainment] industry is tough to handle at times.”

— Zac Efron