I want to be an executive producer.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We’ve been doing great in the streaming market, so it’s not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They’re treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

I stopped watching TV because of ‚The Wire.‘ Like, ‚The Wire‘ ruined everything for me because I don’t even want to watch anything else now.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

Film is not an easy occupation. There’s a lot of occupations that are difficult and film is one of them.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

I’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

If I want to be called ‚The Rock,‘ I’ll be called ‚The Rock.‘ If I want to go back to wrestling, I’ll go back to wrestling.

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

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

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.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

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.

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

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

I liked Vittorio De Sica a lot, and I got to work with him once in a segment movie. He was a great director. He was a very charismatic character and a guy I watched a lot when he was directing.

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 love good film, whether it’s an independent or studio film. The independent films, I think the good ones aren’t necessarily eccentric ones but they’re the more specific ones.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it’s the most complicated thing in the world.

I laugh all the time – at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don’t laugh onstage because then it’s serious business.

In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

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.

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‚Mr. Belvedere,‘ too. We stay in touch.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

I don’t want people saying, ‚Should we get a female director?‘ I want to hear, ‚Should we get a great director for this movie?‘

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

I’m just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want ‚cause I’m a fan of hip-hop.

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.

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

I’ve seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.