I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

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. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

‚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.

Disneyland is a show.

I’ve been fortunate. I don’t pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

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

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.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

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

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

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

I really like children to watch my movies.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

And of course to work with Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton, and work with a wonderful, beautiful script directed by Nancy Meyers, it was really for me a dream come true.

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.

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

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

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

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

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

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

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

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

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

My music is a luxury.

I’ve got no need to prove to myself that I can do Shakespeare. I’ve done it.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it any other way. But you don’t carry it beyond the set.

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

Basically, I live to do gigs.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

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.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

I’ve played real people before, but I never knew them.

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.

I don’t really get into a big intellectual analysis of why I am going to do a certain script or not.

I like a drama.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

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.

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

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

When you make a TV show, they always say you’re a guest in someone’s home. Online, you’re a guest in someone’s face. So that’s why I try to make it sound and look and feel very inviting and attractive, because I know that I’m in your face.

I don’t get bored.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

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.

Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script.

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 want to show audiences I can act.