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You can't get so serious as to not realize that what we do is entertainment, but when you have the chance to provoke thought or advance discussion on a topic, it's just the icing on the cake.

— Jimmy Smits

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think people need to have fun with whatever they're doing - makeup, their clothes, music, live shows - anything you don't need to take too seriously, don't take too seriously.

— Kesha

It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.

— Carroll O'Connor

Nothing's ever allowed to just be entertaining. We have to talk about it.

— Lena Headey

I've never really taken anything very seriously. I enjoy life because I enjoy making other people enjoy it.

— Tim Conway

I think, you know, as an actor we get these terribly sort of pretentious ideas in our heads. We try to take everything very seriously at first, you know, until we lighten up, we get onboard, and have a laugh.

— Rosamund Pike

Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

— Victoria Jackson

I think if you're gonna do something as silly and lighthearted as entertainment, then why not be interesting when you're doing it?

— Chelsea Handler

There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that that other people, especially network TV, won't touch, that we're satirists.

— Trey Parker

There is nothing that is so serious that you can't also see its comic side. Comedy is a way of talking about the most serious things.

— Edward Zwick

✗Opposing Perspectives

You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.

— Bruce Springsteen