‚Leading man‘ just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

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

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

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

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.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

You go to a festival, you know you’re not going to play all new material at a festival. The audience is not there for that. I’ve made that mistake, but you find out pretty quickly.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

My favorite movies of all times is ‚Doctor Zhivago,‘ and I love ‚Gone With the Wind.‘ I’d love to play some Southern belle or something where I owned a plantation.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you’ll see you had to be sharp onstage.

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I’ve done for 25 years. I don’t need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

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.

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.

When you are in good form, you keep hitting the target. You may have the best match but you may still not have the goals. But scoring is most important and it feels so good that I have been knocking them in. It really boosts the morale.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

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.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.

I never wanted to perform and never proclaimed myself to be a performer.

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

I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga, they said I was very theatrical and they said, ‚You’re Gaga‘.

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

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

Like any creative human being, I would like a bit more control so that it would be a little easier for me when the director says, ‚One tear, right now,‘ that one tear would pop out.

I always play women I would date.

I didn’t like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well but is intensely rewarding.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don’t know what a child actor is. She’s an actor who’s a child.

Stand-up is hard.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

You can sometimes play some really good football and not score.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

My role 14 years ago in Richard III – that was the first time I played a bad guy and learned a lot about it – they have all the fun!

I like to sing ballads the way Eddie Fisher does and the way Perry Como does. But the way I’m singing now is what makes the money.

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 done films where we don’t rehearse, and I’ve done films where we heavily rehearse. I like rehearsals.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

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.

Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

One good thing about acting in film is that it’s good therapy.

I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

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.

Who’s to say what’s a good voice and not a good voice?

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

I can’t see myself singing the same song twice in a row. That’s terrible.

I don’t want people saying, ‚Should we get a female director?‘ I want to hear, ‚Should we get a great director for this movie?‘

I can’t make a song for a particular person or demographic. If I love it, I’m gonna do it. I have to perform it for the rest of my life. A song is like a tattoo – you can never get away from it.

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.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.