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

I like my fair share of board games.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Public opinion can be influential, the media can be influential.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

My shows are not narratives.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

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.

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss 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.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

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.

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

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

The movie business is a big gamble.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

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.

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.

When Brexiters told the public that people were exaggerating, that there would be a financial meltdown, I think it’s been proven that they were not exaggerating.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

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.

I was very honored to get to be part of ‚American Idol.‘

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

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.

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.

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

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you’re going to get. You know it’s going to be an all-day party.

SNL is a home. You’ve got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it’s a great time.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

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

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.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Painting is a faith, and it imposes the duty to disregard public opinion.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

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

I don’t get bored.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

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.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

Pop music will never be low brow.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.

When President George W. Bush attempted to reform Social Security, that proposal was more unpopular with Americans than the Iraq war. People love their entitlements.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

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