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.

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.

I met Will Smith twice. I didn’t talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him – he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

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.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

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

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.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry.

I think the first British actor who really worked well in cinema was Albert Finney. He was a back-street Marlon Brando. He brought a great wittiness and power to the screen. The best actor we’ve had.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

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.

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

I am capable of holding the quote-unquote ‚title‘ of leading man. Leading man just means people want to see you and assume that you can hold a film, carry a movie.

I’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

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

No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him.

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

I think the form, the Hollywood movie, I think the quality is obviously always going to be there and I think that the question of taste, there’s always a question of taste.

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

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.

I am not influenced by the techniques or fashions of any other motion picture company.

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.

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

I love WWE, and I love that platform. There is no other platform in the world that gives me that instant gratification. There is just no other platform.

I’m one of those people who says, ‚yes, cinema died when they invented sound.‘

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

I think the whole stigma of ‚black movies‘ is slowly being lost. When you look at movies like ’12 Years A Slave,‘ to ‚The Butler,‘ to ‚The Best Man,‘ to ‚Ride Along,‘ to even ‚Think Like a Man‘ from last year – these movies are just good movies.

That’s something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

Man, I really like Vegas.

Men like a ref decision because they just want to get back to the game.

I want to go down in the history books with what I’ve achieved.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

Too much TV hurts movies.

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.

In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.

I sell escapism.

Alfred Hitchcock once told me, when I was analyzing a lot of things about his pictures, ‚Clint, you must remember, it’s only a movie.‘

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

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 enjoy driving on the sim, doing stuff like that, staying at home.

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

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Chris Rock does the political thing really well, but that never worked for me.

Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a worldwide depression all by myself.

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

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

Of course awards matter.