Love Quote by Corbin Bernsen

Entertainment gets framed as escape, but Bernsen pitches it as impact. The line starts with the classic showbiz triad - laugh, cry, be moved - yet he refuses to leave it at “a good time.” That last clause, “perhaps moving them in their lives,” smuggles in ambition while pretending to downplay it. “Perhaps” is a modesty valve: it shields him from sounding sanctimonious, even as he claims the highest possible stakes for performance.

The intent is clear and practical: to define acting as emotional engineering with a moral aftertaste. He’s not talking about prestige or craft in the abstract; he’s talking about the audience’s body and memory - the reflexive laugh, the tear, the lump in the throat - and then the longer echo that follows them out of the theater. It’s an actor’s version of purpose without preaching.

The subtext is a quiet defense of a profession that’s easy to dismiss as vanity. By linking entertainment to personal change, Bernsen asserts that “moving” isn’t just a metaphor; it’s a potential behavioral nudge. That matters coming from a mainstream TV-era actor: someone whose work often lived in living rooms, amid dinner plates and distractions, where reaching people meant cutting through ordinary noise.

Culturally, it reflects a late-20th-century performer’s bargain with mass media: be broadly accessible, but insist the accessibility can still carry depth. The line sells empathy as the real product - not simply attention, but transformation, even if only in small, private ways.