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I`ve learned that the movies (Star Wars) will never finally end. It just goes on and on and on and on. I mean, it`s going to be in 3D, then it`s going to be smellivision, then it`s going to be a ride in an amusement park, then they`ll come to your house and perform it with puppets on your lawn ... it`ll never end! I accepted that a long time ago.

- Mark Hamill

"I`ll just take amusement at being a paradox."

- Burgess Meredith

To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don`t think is a good ride.

- Darren Aronofsky

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write `War and Peace` in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.

- Stanley Kubrick

I`m too short to host a late-night talk show. It`s like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

- Jon Stewart

Just the history, the boardwalk, the food, the amusement park.

- Misty May-Treanor

It`s awesome. It`s like an amusement park.

- Aaron Lewis

The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it`s real because that`s how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it`s very brightly coloured and it`s very loud and it`s fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don`t worry, don`t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.

- Bill Hicks

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

- David Mamet

I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park.

- Dolly Parton

I do not do hundreds of impressions. My entire repertoire of impressions numbers less than 50. I never set out to do an impression of a person. However, when something a star does suddenly sparks my imagination, I find myself doing an impression of him -- first for my amusement, later for my repertoire.

- Frank Gorshin

(It caught on and has stuck, to musicians` amusement and American audiences` unfazed pleasure.) I`d like to say it`s used because of its air of solemn ceremony, ... But honestly, I think it`s the cannon and the bells.

- Keith Lockhart

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.

- George Bancroft

Prayer is not an old woman`s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

- Mohandas K. Gandhi

I`m not here for your amusement. You`re here for mine.

- Johnny Rotten

I`ve included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.

- Armistead Maupin

A marriage is no amusement but a solemn act, and generally a sad one.

- Queen Victoria

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

- A. W. Tozer

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

- Alaina Walker

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement: for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. It is the quest of our self that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all make.

- Amanda Milburn

Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement... for transfiguration, not for the sake of play.

- Amanda Milburn

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

- Samuel Johnson