Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

I’d go to, like, six different schools in one year. We were on welfare, and my mom never ever worked.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‚Glee.‘ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

In this bright future you can’t forget your past.

My shows are not narratives.

In fact, you couldn’t give me anything to make me go back to being a teenager. Never. No, I hated it.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

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.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

Context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one’s life.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

My favorite movies of all times is ‚Doctor Zhivago,‘ and I love ‚Gone With the Wind.‘ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

I saw ‚Magic Mike,‘ and I thought it was great.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

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

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 was 14, and I fell in love with Pink Floyd.

You know how you either grow up in a Michael Jackson house or a Prince house? For me it was Michael Jackson. I could never decide whether I wanted to be Michael Jackson or marry him.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

Comedy Central was a great network, but ‚Chappelle’s Show‘ took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so many viewers were watching the ‚Chappelle‘ reruns. For BET, the ‚Real Husbands of Hollywood‘ has that same potential.

I’ve always wanted to do a family movie.

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

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

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

I didn’t go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild child in the woods, with no shoes, and in the fall it was back to the city, shoe shops and school.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

Occasionally, I hanker for the time when I sold more records, but I don’t sit and drool about it. When I do look at early footage of Talking Heads, I realise I was just a wreck.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first ‚feeling‘ for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

A good song never gets old.

But I did ‚Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.‘ They made a cereal out of it, so once you’ve had a cereal, it doesn’t get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

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.

The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

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.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

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.

I never dreamed of being a pop star when I was a child.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

Man, I really like Vegas.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

I’m seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There’s no black and white to it. But sometimes I’m seeing it like I’m 4.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.