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

I sell escapism.

I could have spent eight years doing anything, and at some level, it would have been fine. I could have focused on flowers. I could have focused on decor. I could have focused on entertainment. Because any First Lady, rightfully, gets to define her role. There’s no legislative authority; you’re not elected. And that’s a wonderful gift of freedom.

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

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

I really like children to watch my movies.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn’t become actors.

Something I learned as an actor was which scenes needed to be rehearsed and which actors are good with rehearsal, which actors learn from it, and which ones grow stale because they start to second-guess themselves.

I do all my own stunts. I’m kidding.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

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

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.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

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

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you’ve got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Stand-up is hard.

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.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

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

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

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

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four.

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.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

I got started as an actor when I was 12.

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.

Wrestling is intimate. You can reach out and touch the wrestlers.

There are a whole bunch of roles where people say, ‚Oh, you’re playing yourself.‘ I guess it’s kind of a compliment. Or people say, ‚Oh, man, you just roll out of bed and do that.‘ The work is to make it look effortless. That’s the hard part.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‚Glee.‘ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

Just because you’ve seen ‚My Cousin Vinny‘ doesn’t qualify you to be a federal judge.

I always play women I would date.

The art of acting is not to act. Once you show them more, what you show them, in fact is bad acting.

I like talking. I like acting.

A lot of my rhymes are just to get chuckles out of people. Anybody with half a brain is going to be able to tell when I’m joking and when I’m serious.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

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’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Acting is a nice childish profession – pretending you’re someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

I wouldn’t put myself forward to do a film like ‚Changeling‘ if I thought I couldn’t pull people into a story because of all the other ways people see me.

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.

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

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

I think that people are interested seeing me on the screen.

To be honest with you, 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 want to show audiences I can act.