I’m a showgirl, as you can tell. I’m ever ready.

I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I sell escapism.

You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

In the end, everything is a gag.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

TV’s a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.

Nothing really scares me, to be honest.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

I don’t get bored.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

Stand-up is my baby.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

I like Cardi B!

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

I’m not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together. In fact, everything I do is about the conceptualizing and realization of a piece of work, whether it’s the recording or the performance side.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

Football games are on TV, and it doesn’t affect stadium attendance at all. It’s the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

I don’t want people at my shows to come out and say, ‚I just saw a cool show.‘ I want them to say, ‚I had fun at the show.‘ I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

I do all my own stunts. I’m kidding.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I’m joking and when I’m serious.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

My music is a luxury.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

This life, which had been the tomb of his virtue and of his honour, is but a walking shadow; a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Since childhood, I’ve been a clown. I’ve always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It’s my original self.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.