I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

I’m just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want ‚cause I’m a fan of hip-hop.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

Actor’s life is very long.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

A film is sort of binary – it either works or it doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

I laugh all the time – at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don’t laugh onstage because then it’s serious business.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

If I want to be called ‚The Rock,‘ I’ll be called ‚The Rock.‘ If I want to go back to wrestling, I’ll go back to wrestling.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

I would appear on Fox News more easily than I would NPR.

I stopped watching TV because of ‚The Wire.‘ Like, ‚The Wire‘ ruined everything for me because I don’t even want to watch anything else now.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I’ve seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.

The future of American film lies on television.

I want to be an executive producer.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We’ve been doing great in the streaming market, so it’s not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They’re treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

I think, first of all, I don’t think people understand Ice Cube’s body of work. Ice Cube is a, and I hate to use the word ‚urban‘ but – when you think of Judd Apatow, and a person who’s launched so many careers, Ice Cube has done that for so many comedians, you know?

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It’s really only to be heard when everyone’s out enjoying it.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‚Mr. Belvedere,‘ too. We stay in touch.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.