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

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

Stand-up is hard.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

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

I am not The Rock. I am Dwayne Johnson.

Individuality is founded in feeling; and the recesses of feeling, the darker, blinder strata of character, are the only places in the world in which we catch real fact in the making, and directly perceive how events happen, and how work is actually done.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

No, I’m not a French designer either. I’m from nowhere. I’m a European, old European is all I am.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

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.

I was one of the wildest Santa Clauses they ever had.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

The reason people think it’s important to be white is that they think it’s important not to be black.

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.

Why am I a star? It can’t be because of looks.

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

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

I had one incident where my daughter said that a girl asked if she was a brown person. I said, ‚We’re black. You have black people, white people, Chinese people, Hispanic people; we’re all brought up differently.‘

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

I read so much stuff that black women say, especially about my relationship. ‚Oh, he left his black wife to go be with some exotic chick.‘ First of all, my girl is black: she’s Jamaican.

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

I’m all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it’s called ‚Kiss Land,‘ it’s probably going to be the most terrifying thing you’ve ever seen in your life.

A grandmother pretends she doesn’t know who you are on Halloween.

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.

Everywhere I go, the kids call me ‚the book lady.‘ The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the ‚book lady‘ title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I’ve done something good with my life and with my success.

The most propagandistic element of ‚Frozen‘ was the transformation of the prince at the beginning of the story, who was a perfectly good guy, into a villain with no character development whatsoever about three-quarters of the way to the ending.

I don’t blame the average seventeen-year-old punk-rock kid for calling me a sellout. I understand that. And maybe when they grow up a little bit, they’ll realize there’s more things to life than living out your rock & roll identity so righteously.

Through my films I’m eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don’t know if I’m ever going to get there, but I’m slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I’m 85, I’ll look back and say, ‚All right, that about sums it up.‘

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‚blackness‘ than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don’t belong.

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

Bob Marley isn’t my name. I don’t even know my name yet.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

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

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

I make pop culture.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

It’s really fun to put yourself into a character – into shoes you wouldn’t normally be in.

I don’t like to be bored.

I’ve always felt quite singular, even as a child. That I must stay on track to keep my purpose.

I don’t know what ‚normal‘ means, anyway.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

If you feel that there’s the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author with the narrator, and you can’t, obviously, be all of the narrators in all of your books, or else you’d be a very strange person indeed.

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it – aliens.

I like a drama.

Today we affirm a new commitment to live out our nation’s promise through civility, courage, compassion and character.

‚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.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.