When I do stand-up shows at colleges, girls will talk to me after the show, and that always feels good. I like talking to them.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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

Diana Ross is a big inspiration to all of us. We all grew up watching everything about her – her mike placement, her grace, her style and her class.

‚Kitchen Confidential‘ wasn’t a cautionary or an expose. I wrote it as an entertainment for New York tri-state area line cooks and restaurant lifers, basically; I had no expectation that it would move as far west as Philadelphia.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

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

WWE is a space where I thrived, and I loved, and I still do. I love connecting with an audience; that is the greatest thing about going back to WWE.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Wrestling was like stand-up comedy for me. Every night I had a live audience of 25,000 people to win over. My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

The secret to humor is surprise.

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.

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.

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.

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

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

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

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

Doing stand-up is like running across a frozen pond with the ice breaking behind you. I love it because it’s dangerous.

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

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

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

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one.

I know some of the best Dolly Parton jokes. I made ‚em up myself.

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

Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

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.

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.

I saw MotoGP on TV first, before I saw F1 and other types of car racing. It’s what I got more into. It was cool, there was good, exciting racing.

In ‚Changeling,‘ I tried to show something you’d never see nowadays – a kid sitting and looking at the radio. Just sitting in front of the radio and listening. Your mind does the rest.

I enjoy acting when you really hit it right.

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Taking in a baseball game on TV is also a big treat.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

Acting is the perfect idiot’s profession.

My goal is to make everyone and anyone a Kevin Hart fan.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all – make us laugh, think, cry and cheer – preferably in that order.

I’ve always wanted to do a family movie.

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.

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

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.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

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

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

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

Since childhood, I’ve been a clown. I’ve always liked being very funny or trying to make people laugh. It’s my original self.

Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.

Disneyland is the star, everything else is in the supporting role.

Dude, maybe not everyone loves ‚Glee.‘ Me included. I watched 10 minutes and it wasn’t my thing.

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. But you can go from acting to being a TV personality to being a radio personality to being a writer to being a producer, to just being a visionary, to voiceover work.

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

You can always think of something like the Xbox 360 as a super set-top box that can do everything the set-top box does, but then have the graphics to do the games as well.

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

Stand-up is hard.

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

I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I’m a philistine. I like the good life too much; I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.