It’s really fun to be on stage in front of people.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all.

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

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.

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

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

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

I think that success is having fun.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

I knew early on that I wanted to entertain in some form. And I knew I would work as hard as anyone to do it.

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.

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 like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

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.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

Anyone who doesn’t have a great time in San Francisco is pretty much dead to me.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

I really like children to watch my movies.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

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’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

I don’t feel that I’m explaining the world or teaching people anything. And I’m not trying to be a mirror, showing them what’s really going on the world. All I’m trying to do is think of stuff that’s funny, just like when I’m kidding around with my friends.

That’s a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

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.

When you’re around kids you can be a little kid yourself and pretend that life is magic and you don’t have to be one of those sweaty people going to work every day.

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

I liked watching Rossi, his style, his colours and everything. He was someone I looked up to and until now he is still my only hero. He is the king of motorbikes and most people like Rossi mainly because he comes across as a pretty fun and good character. He is cool and has a good style and look.

I’m a writer, not a professional runner. It’s fun and it helps me write. I need powerful concentration.

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.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

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.

Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

According to Lifetime, I don’t know anything about TV.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me.

I can move any crowd.

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

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

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

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

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

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.

I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

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

As a matter of fact, I didn’t make a political speech outside of my state for 20 years.

The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

During my school days, I was doing a play, and my costume fell on the stage. I really wish it didn’t happen.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

Fun is good.

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it’s their fault.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what’s sexy or cool or tough.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it’s always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

A man may speak very well in the House of Commons, and fail very completely in the House of Lords. There are two distinct styles requisite: I intend, in the course of my career, if I have time, to give a specimen of both.