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.

Maybe I’ll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be a show no one forgot.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

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

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions.

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

If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

I don’t get bored.

Bo Derek is a really good friend of mine, and I’d like to spend more time with her.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

I’m the greatest thing that ever lived! I’m the king of the world! I’m a bad man. I’m the prettiest thing that ever lived.

It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‚Glee.‘ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.

A youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

My mother is from another time – the funniest person to her is Lucille Ball; that’s what she loves. A lot of times she tells me she doesn’t know what I’m talking about. I know if I wasn’t her son and she was flipping through the TV and saw me, she would just keep going.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

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.

I learned from the guys before me – Bill Cosby, Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, Richard Pryor, just to name a few. These are guys that let it all hang out. What they lived is what they took to the stage.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

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.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

I don’t get up, get dressed, go out, and think, ‚Okay, I gotta find eight jokes.‘

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

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

I love Steve Carell.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

I am capable of holding the quote-unquote ‚title‘ of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed – there’s so little competition.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I’m proud of ‚Stop Making Sense,‘ but it’s a little bit of an albatross; I can’t compete with it, but I can’t ignore it either.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made ‚em up myself.

The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.