When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.

I’ve always loved the idea of playing Black Adam.

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

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

I definitely don’t plead guilty to being a heartthrob.

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

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Open Graph is a language for structuring content and sharing that goes on in other apps, and we’re continuing to build it out longer term. But we found we need to build more specific experiences around categories like music or movies. Where we’ve taken the time to build those specific experiences, stuff has gone quite well.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.

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’d go from film to film and almost detach from one world and jump in another. I was living as these people and not having a self. I didn’t know who I was. And things just get really dark.

Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

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

I’ve choreographed all of my movies.

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

For me the greatest source of income is still movies. Nothing – stocks, financial speculation, real estate speculation or businesses – makes more money for me than making movies.

See, ‚A Time to Kill‘ was the one I got famous off of. Big ka-boom, over one weekend. After that, I did films that I really wanted to do.

I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I’m an idiot.

Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

I really like children to watch my movies.

As a small child in England, I had this dream of going to Africa. We didn’t have any money and I was a girl, so everyone except my mother laughed at it. When I left school, there was no money for me to go to university, so I went to secretarial college and got a job.

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.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

I like the idea of working in different genres and transcending genres and hopefully finding success, and ultimately make movies people like.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

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

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

Human beings need stories, and we’re looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it’s television, whether it’s comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

I don’t think I ever thought of myself as Superman. But there were people who thought of me that way, and maybe I believed them a little.

I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn’t very good-looking. But in his own way he’d always save the day.

Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.

Funk, I don’t think I have anything to do with funk. I’ve never considered myself funky.

I don’t see myself as a philosopher. That’s awfully boring.

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.

We are what we believe we are.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

I didn’t know what a stockbroker was when I was eight, but I would just tell everybody that’s what I was going to be.

I am really proud that I am one of the artists that has the opportunity to be on magazine covers and to be in the movies.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

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.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Who’s my hero? That’s a great question… Well, I think my dad is my hero, because he’s someone I look up to every day.

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

One of the skills I had to learn and become proficient in is kissing a man. I had never kissed a man. Will Smith did it in his movies, so did Jake Gyllenhaal, and I figured it was my time. So it was me and Steve Carell – fantastic.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.