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

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

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‚Doctor Who.‘ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

I usually don’t like to ‚spoon feed‘ my audience, because I grew up idolizing story tellers who tell stories using symbolism, so it was in my nature to do the same.

The assertion that ‚all men are created equal‘ was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

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

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.

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.

I’m a slow worker; I’m, I think, a steady worker.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

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

Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

I don’t think comedy will ever die.

I would be a liar, a hypocrite, or a fool – and I’m not any of those – to say that I don’t write for the reader. I do. But for the reader who hears, who really will work at it, going behind what I seem to say. So I write for myself and that reader who will pay the dues.

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

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

For some of us, watching a miniseries that lasts longer than most marriages is not easy.

If you work hard and play by the rules, this country is truly open to you. You can achieve anything.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

I believe that we should own the fruits of our labor and the assets of our creations.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. I am not unmindful of the fact that violence often brings about momentary results. Nations have frequently won their independence in battle. But in spite of temporary victories, violence never brings permanent peace.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

The woman who can create her own job is the woman who will win fame and fortune.

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

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.

I don’t get bored.

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

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.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

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 people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

Everybody loved ‚The A-Team‘ because it was entertainment, pure and simple.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

You’ve got to keep your finger on the pulse of what your audience is thinking, and know what they’ll accept from you.

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

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 got my own back.

For 500 years, since European explorers came, Latin American countries had been separated from one another. They had very limited relations. Integration is a prerequisite for independence.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

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

I’ve had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Maybe I’ll give Broadway a try. But you know what would be great? Hosting the Oscars. I promise you, that would be a show no one forgot.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

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