I’ve always loved the showmanship of professional wrestling. While I love making movies, I love that platform, too.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

I wasn’t allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

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.

We started off as this platform inside Facebook; and we were pretty clear from the beginning that that wasn’t where it was going to end up. A lot of people saw it and asked, ‚Why is Facebook trying to get all these applications inside Facebook when the web is clearly the platform?‘ And we actually agreed with that.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

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.

I guess any movie actor can become a role model for audiences out there who enjoy him.

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.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

I think television has had a vast, unbelievable impact on us.

Football games are on TV, and it doesn’t affect stadium attendance at all. It’s the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

I like Ryan Gosling as an actor. I watch all of his movies, and he’s Canadian and I just like his swag. I read his interviews and I’m a big fan of his.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

I sell escapism.

The movie business is a big gamble.

Pop music will never be low brow.

In wrestling, there’s a shelf life, and some wrestlers don’t pay attention to the shelf life.

I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.

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

My shows are not narratives.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

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.

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.

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.

You make ‚em, I amuse ‚em.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army.

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.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

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.

In every movie I do have a dialogue.

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

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

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

I don’t spend too much time on my phone, laptop or television. However, I do occasionally watch documentaries and shows on streaming platforms.

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

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

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.

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.

TV’s a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.

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.

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

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.

I don’t think comedy will ever die.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

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.

What a blast it is to be here with Michael Moore.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

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 make pop culture.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

As a producer, as a CEO of Hartbeat Productions, I am making deals to put my company in place to win, to put my staff to work so that while all this stuff is going on, they’re in the kitchen cooking. So it’s understanding the longevity of the entertainment business; you get out of it what you put into it.

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.

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

I do love the films I’ve done in the past. I work hard in my movies and my friends work hard and we’re trying to make people laugh and I’m very proud of that.