I’m a showgirl, as you can tell. I’m ever ready.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

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

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

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.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.

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

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

Nothing really scares me, to be honest.

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

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

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

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’ve worked since I was a five-year-old to be a performer.

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.

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 don’t really like to call myself a brand, and I don’t like to think of myself as a brand. I’m a singer, a songwriter, a musician and a performer. And an actress, and all the other things that I do. When you add it all together, some might call it a brand, but that’s not my focus.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

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

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.

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

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.

There’s my personal life, my sensitive side, and then me as a performer, sexy and energised and fun.

My shows are not narratives.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

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

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

Speaking purely from a musical standpoint, I think I am a great performer.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions… entertainment… cares and anxieties… and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

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

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

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

There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor.

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

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

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

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.

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.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

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 love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater.

Pretty much my whole life, I’ve been a performer and have loved singing and writing songs in my room for my own ears.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

I sell escapism.

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.

‚The Simpsons‘ appearances were great fun. But I don’t take them too seriously. I think ‚The Simpsons‘ have treated my disability responsibly.

A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It’s my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

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

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

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.