We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

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

Everybody loved ‚The A-Team‘ because it was entertainment, pure and simple.

I performed in a bowling alley before while people were still bowling. Cut the check, and I will perform anywhere.

I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

It just seems there’s better things to do in your life than be on television if it’s not interesting, if it’s not challenging, if it’s not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I’ll stop making television.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

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 think the American people, with some justification, think that most politicians live in la-la land.

Most of the stuff I do on the show comes out of me just trying to make my friends laugh.

I don’t get bored.

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

Basically, I live to do gigs.

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.

Most Americans think there’s already universal background checks. They don’t understand why there wouldn’t be a background check to purchase a weapon.

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one’s children will become than for the children one’s ‚mature‘ critics often are.

I saw ‚Magic Mike,‘ and I thought it was great.

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.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

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.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera – or an NHL game.

I get to hear the really good or the really bad things in the press, but I don’t read it. I can afford to say that because public opinion does not drive U2’s audience.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Growing up I didn’t watch movies.

A lot of critics object to what I do, but I got into comedy to make people laugh, and I’ve always worked hard.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

To the audience, it’s like I’m changing the subject every five seconds, but to me, my show’s almost like a 90-minute song that I know exactly. I wrote every note, and I know exactly where everything is.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

I was very honored to get to be part of ‚American Idol.‘

Well, Howard Stern has been doing his impression of me for years. It doesn’t really bother me.

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.

If the critics are right that I’ve made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

I’m Mickey Mouse. They don’t know who’s inside the suit.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

I do all my own stunts. I’m kidding.

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.

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

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

TV’s a big deal in prison. A big deal. People watch it nonstop.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

All movements go too far.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

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

Man, I really like Vegas.

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

Football games are on TV, and it doesn’t affect stadium attendance at all. It’s the same with movies. People who really love movies and like to go out on a Saturday night will go to the movie theater.

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

According to Lifetime, I don’t know anything about TV.

I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television – there wasn’t a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.

You see some of the weirdest people in Detroit casinos.

I want more of my favorite artists or more of the guy that makes the anthems. I want more.

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