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

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

You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

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

My goals are so high that I don’t have time to relax in any way, shape or form.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

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.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

In 1979, Iranians carried out an illegitimate act: They overthrew a tyrant that the United States had imposed and supported, and moved on an independent path, not following U.S. orders.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

Pop music will never be low brow.

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

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 don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

I am a grafter.

It’s really fun to be on stage in front of people.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

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

I was raised on, ‚You go get a nine-to-five job, earn your pay and work your way up.‘

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

If you’re performing music that is not who you are or where you’re at, it is painful. It’s painful for the performer and for the audience.

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

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

For me, it’s enough that I have the first and last word.

When I get on a roll with something, it’s really hard for me to put it down unfinished.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Solitude is independence.

What I’m hoping is that every album I’m going to do will give my audience something different, and that they’ll grow as I do.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

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

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady and the other was to be independent, and the law was something most unusual for those times because for most girls growing up in the ’40s, the most important degree was not your B.A. but your M.R.S.

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.

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.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

Some time ago, the United States was an English colony. If an Englishman were asked if the United States would be independent, he would have said no, that it would always be an English colony.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.