This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

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

Everybody thinks making films back to back is a big deal but they did it all the time in the old days.

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.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

I want to be an executive producer.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I laugh all the time – at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don’t laugh onstage because then it’s serious business.

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.

The rise in the price of gold is a sign that capitalism has stumbled.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

I now have two different audiences. There’s the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

I would love to sign on to do a movie if it was the right role and if it was the right script, because I would be taking time away from music to tell a big grand story, and spend all of my time and pouring all of my emotions into being someone else. So for me to do that, it would have to be a story worth telling.

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

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.

Too much TV hurts movies.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

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

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

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

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.

In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.

Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

If I want to be called ‚The Rock,‘ I’ll be called ‚The Rock.‘ If I want to go back to wrestling, I’ll go back to wrestling.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

I always play women I would date.

As we all know, sequels can be tricky.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We’ve been doing great in the streaming market, so it’s not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They’re treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

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

Stand-up can take you in so many different places, man. So many doors can be opened up from stand-up comedy, and the first one that was opened up for me was acting.

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

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

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.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

The future of American film lies on television.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

But I do believe that there’s going to be a time where all movies are going to be made in 3D and it’s just going to be a given, and that is going to be an exciting time.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It’s really only to be heard when everyone’s out enjoying it.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

I like the anonymity that directors can have about their films.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

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.

I’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

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.