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

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.

The secret to humor is surprise.

I love Chris Brown. He’s a superstar. He’s one of the best singers out there.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

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.

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

I don’t want people at my shows to come out and say, ‚I just saw a cool show.‘ I want them to say, ‚I had fun at the show.‘ I want it to be a collaborative thing and be part of the audience and have them be part of me. I try to interact with everyone there and have them be equal to me because they are.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

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

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.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

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

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.

When you’re in comedy, people always come up and say, ‚Oh, it must be so hard.‘ It really isn’t hard unless you’re not good at it. If you can do it, its really kind of fun and easy.

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.

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.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

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.

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

‚Best Man Holiday‘ was a very successful film.

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.

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?

I sent out a tweet, ‚Dancing with the Stars‘ should stop the jibber jabber. They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

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.

When you come to my show, I want it to feel like opera, like a theatre.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

Kids end up seeing my movies anyway but some of the mothers get mad at me so I figured I’d make one that I can’t get yelled at for.

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 don’t like to be bored.

My shows are not narratives.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

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

Anybody with a sense of humor is going to put on my album and laugh from beginning to end.

I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down – we’re not going to be the number one group in the world forever – so you have to have something else to fall back on.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Pop music will never be low brow.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

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.

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

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’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.

My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.

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

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

It’s really fun to be on stage in front of people.

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

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

I’m a showgirl, as you can tell. I’m ever ready.

In the end, everything is a gag.

The movie business is a big gamble.

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

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

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