Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

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.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn’t very good-looking. But in his own way he’d always save the day.

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

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

I love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

I like my fair share of board games.

A child wants things to be a certain way. When you get to be an adult, you just understand that some people are good, some are not, and you can’t be naive.

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

I’ve been thinking of humorous things since I was… I can’t remember when. All the way through elementary school, all the way through junior high, all the way through high school, through college and after college, I was thinking of the same kinds of things that I say in front of an audience now.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

Akron, Ohio, is my home. It will always be remembered. Akron, Ohio, is my life.

The secret to humor is surprise.

Seeing a live Kenny Chesney show, you know what you’re going to get. You know it’s going to be an all-day party.

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

Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

I’m all about surprises. If you watch a horror movie, and it’s called ‚Kiss Land,‘ it’s probably going to be the most terrifying thing you’ve ever seen in your life.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

Letters are something from you. It’s a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail.

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.

There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, ‚I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.‘

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

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.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

I was a smart kid, but I hated school.

I like Cardi B!

You can’t imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

I do all my own stunts. I’m kidding.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.

I didn’t play with other children.

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.

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

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

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

I don’t think comedy will ever die.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

Life is the childhood of our immortality.

I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‚Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.‘ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.

‚Border‘ was the first movie that I watched on the big screen. It always takes me back to my childhood.

When I was 10 years old, I loved – I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I found a little book I could just afford, and I bought it, and I took it home. And I climbed up my favorite tree, and I read that book from cover to cover. And that was Tarzan of the Apes. I immediately fell in love with Tarzan.