“Everything's about my personal entertainment. The world is my stage. Keep it up- you're becoming a star performer in the show.”

“My dream was always to hop up on stage in front of my fans every night and perform.”

“Eight people show up. The emcee is warm, friendly, and about as funny as Shoah. I take the stage to the sound of, my hand to God, one person clapping once and only once, and then I start into my act.”

“You are so far high up in my world,My own personal astrologer found a new star.”

“Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself. Therefore -- and this is the critical point -- how television stages the world becomes the model for how the world is properly to be staged. It is not merely that on the television screen entertainment is the metaphor for all discourse. It is that off the screen the same metaphor prevails. (92)”

“Seeing Grandma this way, it makes me know for certain that everything about a person will show up in another person in the family.”