I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

I’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

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

Movies are not novels, and that’s why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It can’t be done.

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

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we’ve had.

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

I know about two things: ‚Rocky III‘ and Clubber Lang, and ‚A-Team‘ and B.A. Baracus. That’s who I am!

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

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

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.

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

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

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

I sell escapism.

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.

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.

I do all my own stunts. I’m kidding.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

One of my movies was called ‚True Lies.‘ It’s what the Democrats should have called their convention.

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

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

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

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

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.

I enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

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 think comedy will ever die.

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

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

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

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

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.

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

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

My shows are not narratives.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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

Stand-up is hard.

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

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.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

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

Too much TV hurts movies.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

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.

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.

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

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.