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

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

I don’t know how the rap game is, because I’m a fan of reality, and the rap game’s entertainment.

My grandfather once ventured upon publishing a volume of hymns. I never heard anyone speak in their favour or argue that they ought to have been sung in the congregation. In that volume, he promised a second if the first should prove acceptable. We forgive him the first collection because he did not inflict another.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

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

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

For me, it’s about the way I carry myself and the way I treat other people. My relationship and how I feel about God and what He does for me, is something deeply personal. It’s where I came from, my family, I was brought up in a religious household and that’s very important to me.

I do all my own stunts. I’m kidding.

Children make your life important.

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

I’ll be like Bob Hope, touring when I’m 100.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

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

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It’s for children and families. Not for people like me.

We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look.

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.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.

I’ve done the bad-boy thing. It was fun for a good three months. But the thing about bad boys is, you have to keep in mind, you’re never gonna marry a bad boy.

I delayed my father’s funeral because of cricket.

An armchair Jungian would say the whole thing is about my own ongoing spiritual search. My interior life has always been one of trying to find a spiritual link, maybe because I’m from a family of separate religious philosophies: Protestant and Catholic.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

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.

Fun is good.

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.

In the end, everything is a gag.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

People are using Windows PCs more than they watch TV now.

What I like to do is get the family in the pick-up truck… and then we just go for a drive. That’s it!

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

Since the very beginning, Emeril’s had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

I think that success is having fun.

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I like the idea of making a big, fun, adventure type of movie.

My mother was always fascinated with the fact that I could rhyme so much stuff.

Everybody is entertained to death.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

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.

Maybe some people can wake up and play PlayStation all day, but that’s never been me.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.