Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

I feel like I’m changing pop culture.

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

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

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

I view myself as being the average woman. While I am first lady, I wasn’t first lady my whole life. I’m a product of pop culture. I’m a consumer of pop culture, and I know what resonates with people.

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 am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

When I was born in 1920, the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.

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.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new ‚solution‘ to society’s ‚problems.‘

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

Woman was God’s second mistake.

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

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

That little Miley Cyrus… she’s like a little Elvis. The kids love her because she’s Hannah Montana, but what people don’t realize about her is she is such a fantastic singer and songwriter. She writes songs like she’s 40 years old!

On a good night, I get underwear, bras, and hotel-room keys thrown onstage… You start to think that you’re Tom Jones.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

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

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

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 have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

I love Steve Carell.

For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

Pop music will never be low brow.

But I did ‚Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure.‘ They made a cereal out of it, so once you’ve had a cereal, it doesn’t get much more surreal than that. Surreal cereal.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren’t. I don’t know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

I’m not one of these guys who sits around saying, ‚Gee, I mean, the person had a strange childhood and that’s why he’s doing this horrible thing. Poor Jeffrey Dahmer. He’s just had a bad childhood and that’s why he’s eating people.‘ Wait a second! This person should be removed from the planet.

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

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!

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.

It’s easy being a humorist when you’ve got the whole government working for you.

We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.

There’s nothing funnier than the human animal.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

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.

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It’s literary suicide.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Ninety percent of all music is always crap, and when too many people decide they’re going to have guitar bands, then ninety percent of them are going to be crap. It’s just a given law.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

I’m a geek.

On TV the people can see it. On radio you’ve got to create it.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

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

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

I make pop culture.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

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.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.