It’s simple: You get a part. You play a part. You play it well. You do your work and you go home. And what is wonderful about movies is that once they’re done, they belong to the people. Once you make it, it’s what they see. That’s where my head is at.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

It has so happened in all ages of the world that some have labored, and others have, without labor, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits.

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.

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

I want to show audiences I can act.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

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. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it’s the most complicated thing in the world.

I’m committed to the people of Gujarat. I will devote each and every moment to serve my people of Gujarat.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

The New Testament says nothing of Apostles who retired and took it easy.

I always play women I would date.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

I did 20 years in the Navy. I joined the Navy right out of high school and went through Navy boot camp, went to SEAL training, got done with that, and then showed up at a SEAL team, where I did 20 years. That was pretty much my whole adult life.

It’s very intense to be in front of a live audience. It’s just an amazing experience. It’s dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It’s electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you’re on this other planet.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn’t like to miss or lose.

Nothing feels better than going onstage and everybody is singing every word – and actually wanting to see you.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I can’t stand directors who try to micro-manage everything. When it happens these days I just walk off set, saying if they don’t like the way I’m doing it they can get someone else.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.

All of the Vines that were acted & setup & had nice cameras, those weren’t the good Vines. The good Vines were, like, a random little kid in the middle of a forest, like, yelling.

‚Via Dolorosa‘ is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and I’ll never act again.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I’m much more expressive off stage.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

Men don’t and can’t live by exchanging articles, but by producing them. They don’t live by trade, but by work. Give up that foolish and vain title of Trades Unions; and take that of laborers Unions.

Stand-up is my baby.

When I’m in meetings until 5am and then have to get up two hours later for filming, sometimes I ask myself ‚why?‘

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

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

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.