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

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

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 feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

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.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

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

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.

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

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

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

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 work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

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.

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.

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 see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

The secret to humor is surprise.

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.

I don’t like to be bored.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

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

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

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

When Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

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.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

Since childhood, I’ve been a clown. I’ve always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It’s my original self.

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.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

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.

Man, I really like Vegas.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

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

I’ve always wanted to do a family movie.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

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