The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
I'm just an entertainer. All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet.
I'm not a performer. If they're looking for entertainer-in-chief, I'm probably not the guy.
There is still an assumption among many people that to be black is to be lower class. In the last fifteen to twenty years, perhaps even further back than that, there's also been an explosion of a very wealthy black class in the United States, but those people are often treated as special cases: they're athletes, entertainers. Jay-Z. Basketball players. The country metabolizes the fact these rich black people exist, but it seems only to reinforce the idea that every other black person is limping along in poverty.
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
I believe entertainers should know what's going on and do their own banking.
A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer.
Being an entertainer, especially in times like these, is really a public service.
I am an entertainer. Cinema is entertainment. It is nothing more than that.
I regard myself as an entertainer much more than an artist.
Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.
An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer.
I'm just an entertainer, man. I don't like to pigeonhole myself to anything. I love to do it all.
You don't get into magic. . . Magic gets into you.
Rush Limbaugh, whether you hate him or not, he's a great entertainer; he's a great broadcaster.
We have in this country something remarkable. We have the local version of the Soviets' Pravda. It trades in ignorance and lies and opinions, and makes the claim that they are "truth," and it does so with people who are stupid, who don't know anything, and are basically entertainers. It merges a fundamentalist ideology with celebrity culture.
I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer.
I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.
I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.
Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models.