For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.

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

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.

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.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

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

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

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.

It’s really fun to be on stage in front of people.

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

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

I love Steve Carell.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

I don’t think comedy will ever die.

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

Stand-up is my baby.

My shows are not narratives.

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

I like Cardi B!

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

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

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.

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.

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

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

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.

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

My music is a luxury.

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.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

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

I’m a showgirl, as you can tell. I’m ever ready.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

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.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

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

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

I really like children to watch my movies.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

Stand-up is hard.

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

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

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

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

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.

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

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

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.