I love Steve Carell.

I like a drama.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

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

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

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I’m asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that.

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

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

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

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.

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

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took me some time to realise that the job was, in fact, taken.

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.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

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.

Disneyland is a show.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

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

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 prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

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.

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.

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

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

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

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

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.

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.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

As a comedian, I found this thing, this profession, that suits my mind and life force. To drop it to do something else? I just don’t get that.

I really like children to watch my movies.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

I’ve got a great sense of humor, and if I’m able to say or do something in a movie that people feel like they want to repeat, that’s hugely flattering.

Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly lighted interior sets.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

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

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

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

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

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

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

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.