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

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

Stand-up is hard.

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you’re going to get. You know it’s going to be an all-day party.

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

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

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.

Stand-up comedy is mine: it’s my entity; it’s my brand; I own it. I do it when I want to do it.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

My shows are not narratives.

I’ll be like Bob Hope, touring when I’m 100.

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

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

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

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.

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

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

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.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

The movie business is a big gamble.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

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.

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.

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

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 would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

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

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.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

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

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.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

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.

When I heard ‚Jesus, Take the Wheel,‘ I was like, OK. Some people look at it as a song written for an American Idol, Carrie Underwood, who is wonderful. But when you’re a songwriter listening to a song, you hear something else. I heard that song, and wow.

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

According to Lifetime, I don’t know anything about TV.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

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

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

Pop music will never be low brow.

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

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.

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.

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

I don’t think comedy will ever die.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

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

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

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

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 am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

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

In music the passions enjoy themselves.