Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

I could do nothing but Brooklyn shows for the rest of my career, and I could die ignorant.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

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

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

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.

‚This guy’s a clown! He’s just all talk!‘ I’ve heard that many times in my career. And then they’re sleeping in the middle of the octagon.

I like a drama.

You know, there are artists who are 35 and up that still make rap and that still works for them. I don’t know if I want to be that guy.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That’s why I started in with the props.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

I’ve always wanted to do a family movie.

The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

I do all my own stunts. I’m kidding.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

Stand-up is my baby.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

ESPN is a great organization to work for.

I never wanted to stay in one genre; I never wanted to be pigeon-holed or defined as the actor who only worked in one genre. I want to be able to work in all different genres. For me it’s fun, and that’s how I grow as an actor.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

What I do is just go over and over and over my lines and learn the script so well that I can just be easy and relaxed. That’s the way I always work.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

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.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.

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

It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and was very unhappy. I had pitched an idea for a book some six months earlier, and the book packager, Joost Elffers, wanted me to write up a treatment for it.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

I’ve done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

I wouldn’t use the word ‚scared‘ for my role as Hitchcock, but it was my most insecure. Taking on such a formidable, giant personality such as Hitchcock; he was one of the great geniuses of world cinema. Sheer genius.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!

Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

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

Actor’s life is very long.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

My shows are not narratives.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

If I could have worked from the time I was born until I was 18 and never had to work again, I would have done it.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.