Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

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.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

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

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

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.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

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

The movie business is a big gamble.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

I’ve been a mogul and executive since the beginning of my career. People are just born with that skill.

I like Cardi B!

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

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

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

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.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.

Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we’ve ever had. If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

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

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Acting is happy agony.

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

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 think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.

I love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.

I think that once you’ve had a few No. 1s in your career that you’ve kind of proven yourself, and I don’t feel the need to prove anything anymore.

Whatever is on the page is what I’m married to. I’m very prepared. I’m a thespian. I don’t like to improv. I don’t like to go off course ‚cause I think that’s where stuff happens. When you stick to the material ‚cause it’s written so well, that’s where the magic happens.

If you look at me in ‚Ride Along,‘ even though I’m playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

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.

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.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

Had I pursued my education long enough to learn all the conventional dos and don’ts of starting a business, I often wonder how different my life and career might have been.

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

I played Othello, but I didn’t sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn’t do me any good.

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

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.

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

No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

My shows are not narratives.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

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

In any profession it gets to be a grind.

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

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

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

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

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

Sometimes I wish I had taken the Bob Dylan route and sang songs where my voice would not go out on me every night, so I could have a career if I wanted.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

According to Lifetime, I don’t know anything about TV.

It’s not essential for me to have a big debut week; it’s not essential for me to have big radio records.

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.