Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

Stand-up is my baby.

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

I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.

People have asked me, ‚What would you have done if you hadn’t gone into the Army?‘ I’d say I’d probably be a bus driver. I don’t know.

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

Throughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn’t imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

Fear is exciting for me.

I have always felt it is my destiny to build a machine that would allow man to fly.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

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

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

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 always entertain great hopes.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

When I grow up, I want to be like Balvin.

I love my job, but it’s more than that: I need it.

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

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

The secret to humor is surprise.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

I’m a workin‘ girl.

There are people in the world who have skills and strength and talent that I will never have. Never. These notions that you can ‚be whatever you want to be as long as you want it bad enough‘ are not true. They are fairy tales.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

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

The day I think I’m not enjoying the game and contributing the way I would like to, I’ll hang up my boots.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

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.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

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

In my career as a director, there’s always been some point where you get halfway through it, or three-quarters, and you go: ‚What is this thing all about, and why am I telling the story? Does anybody really care about seeing this?‘ At that time you have to say: ‚OK, forget that and just go ahead.‘

Any man who has had the job I’ve had and didn’t have a sense of humor wouldn’t still be here.

I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess.

When a person starts to talk about their dreams, it’s as if something bubbles up from within. Their eyes brighten, their face glows, and you can feel the excitement in their words.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

You never get over losses. I’ve never gotten over one loss I’ve had in my career. They always stick with me.

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

In my school, the brightest boys did math and physics, the less bright did physics and chemistry, and the least bright did biology. I wanted to do math and physics, but my father made me do chemistry because he thought there would be no jobs for mathematicians.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

I don’t want to be an action star, an action star’s life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

I’m a working-class person, working with class.

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

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and was very unhappy. I had pitched an idea for a book some six months earlier, and the book packager, Joost Elffers, wanted me to write up a treatment for it.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.