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

I don’t know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn’t hurt the book.

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

I was never interested in being powerful or famous. But once I got to film school and learned about movies, I just fell in love with it. I didn’t care what kind of movies I made.

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.

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

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

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

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

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

I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn’t very entertaining for me.

Stand-up is my baby.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

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.

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

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

I don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

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

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war – for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I’d say we deserve ours more.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

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

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

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.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

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.

I saw ‚Magic Mike,‘ and I thought it was great.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

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

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

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

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

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

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

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

We don’t want people to leave the stadium until the game finishes.

I sell escapism.

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.

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.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

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.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

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

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

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.

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

Changes are not unusual – I mean, most movies, when they release them, they make changes. But somehow, when I make the slightest change, everybody thinks it’s the end of the world.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‚Glee.‘ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.