I don’t get bored.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

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

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

I got my buzz from playing.

I have had fun being who I became, so to speak.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

I’ve always wanted to do a family movie.

Football games are on TV, and it doesn’t affect stadium attendance at all. It’s the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

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.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

The way to know life is to love many things.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

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.

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information.

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

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

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

My music is a luxury.

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

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

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

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.

Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

The celebrity-chef thing, even at its worst, its most annoying, its silliest, its goofiest, its most egregious and cynical, has been a good thing.

My biggest hobby is hanging out with my family and kids.

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

I don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

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

For my career, I wouldn’t go racing if I didn’t enjoy it. I still need to have my say, and not just get put with a team and get told to deal with it.

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

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.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

Since the very beginning, Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

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

There are a lot of inaccuracies out there when it comes to the SEAL training process. You will see guys carrying logs around on television. They think that the hardest part about being on a SEAL team is getting through that training. The fact of the matter is, if you have a good attitude, that training is fun. I had a blast.

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

There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

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

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

So many guys are so conservative with their hair, and I always joke with all my buddies when they mess with me, and I’ll say, ‚That’s right, keep the same haircut for ten years.‘ How fun is that?

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

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

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

You must keep raising this game to higher and higher levels, as on the pool table – mastering eventually the psychological angles. Your playing is a pleasure, all the way to the end, to death, when the game is over.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.