A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

Cardi B put a lot of work in.

All I do is work out. Oh my God! Half my life is spent in a gym somewhere, sweating.

I do my job like I breathe.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you’re going to be a second-rate artist.

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don’t notice they’re getting made fun of. So they’ll say something back that’s not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Cleveland fans are awesome.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

The secret to humor is surprise.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, ‚Children’s Letters to God.‘ You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, ‚Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.‘

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it’s so essential that when I’m involved in the actual process, my so-called ‚real life‘ becomes almost incidental, which becomes worrying.

I don’t think comedy will ever die.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

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

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Believe it or not, I make myself laugh. Sometimes when I have thoughts or say some things that are funny, it just makes me laugh, and I don’t mind laughing at it before you guys do.

A reputation as a hard worker is a good reputation to have.

I was born. When I was 23 I started telling jokes. Then I started going on television and doing films. That’s still what I am doing. The end.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

I just am committed wholeheartedly to theatre with no intermission.

I’ll be like Bob Hope, touring when I’m 100.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

I had a great time being a salesman because of the pitches that I gave when I was selling shoes. However, I don’t think I’m as well versed in shoes as I am in comedy. Being a salesman was all about being a people person, and I enjoy being around people. I also love talking to people – which is why I think I did so well.

She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It’s literary suicide.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can’t predict what people will laugh at.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn’t have to translate.