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.

Wherever I go meeting the public… spreading a message of human values, spreading a message of harmony, is the most important thing.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

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

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

I spoke to a million in one service, in Korea, in Seoul. And that was the largest audience I ever have had.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

People think hard sparring will get you sharp. And you do get sharp in the gym. But anytime I’ve trained that way, I’ve actually been a little bit flatter in the fight. And the knockout shot hasn’t come. It’s almost because my training has been too hard.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It’s really great.

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

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

I play a nobody in Japan.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me. Of course, that doesn’t mean I want them to stop looking.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

I’ve spent too much time giving speeches, traveling the world.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

When I was performing the songs on ‚Kiss Land,‘ it was a great singalong. But there were moments where I realized some parts were catchier than the others. There’s maybe two choruses on all of ‚Kiss Land.‘

I’ve seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

I’m not a photographer, so I didn’t get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That’s the world that I’m moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

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

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

I can move any crowd.

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.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We’ve been doing great in the streaming market, so it’s not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They’re treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

I go onstage and I talk, and I remember what I’m saying, and I track it.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

A film is sort of binary – it either works or it doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

I want to show audiences I can act.

I’m just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want ‚cause I’m a fan of hip-hop.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

At first, I wasn’t really keen on the idea of me being on stage having to sing in front of people.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it’s pretty intense.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

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