I like my fair share of board games.

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.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

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

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

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

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

I spend a lot of time reading.

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

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.

My goal is to entertain myself and others.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

Playing bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

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.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I’m joking and when I’m serious.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

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

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

That summer after the draft was probably the most fun I’ve ever had, because all I had to do every day was wake up and go work out for four or five hours. I got to play some golf, which I love to do, too, and then got to hang out with my family.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

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

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

‚The Simpsons‘ appearances were great fun. But I don’t take them too seriously. I think ‚The Simpsons‘ have treated my disability responsibly.

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.

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

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.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

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

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

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

People get a kick out of my stupidity.

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.

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

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

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

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 work hard for the audience. It’s entertainment. I don’t need validation.

There’s nothing more comfortable or leisurely than having a pair of Ugg slippers on in the house.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

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.

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

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

I like talking. I like acting.