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

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset – tears are words waiting to be written.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

It’s hard work making movies. It’s like being a doctor: you work long hours, very hard hours, and it’s emotional, tense work. If you don’t really love it, then it ain’t worth it.

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

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

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

When I was 8 years old, I saw ‚Raiders of the Lost Ark‘ in Charlotte, North Carolina. I walked out of there and was so inspired. I loved the movie, and I knew I wanted to be that guy.

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.

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.

The movie business is a big gamble.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

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

I don’t get bored.

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.

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

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

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

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

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

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made ‚em up myself.

I just felt that if I went into Speed 2, I just… wouldn’t have come up out of the water.

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

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

You’re not just voting for an individual, in my judgment, you’re voting for an agenda. You’re voting for a platform. You’re voting for a political philosophy.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

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.

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

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Everybody is entertained to death.

In the end, everything is a gag.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

My shows are not narratives.

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 don’t know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn’t hurt the book.

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

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.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

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

Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions… entertainment… cares and anxieties… and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

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.

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

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

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.

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

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