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.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

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.

I need to do well and show I’m a worthy driver in F1.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance… you thrive on that.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

I did stand-up, weird and ignorant stuff about my career – anything for a laugh.

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

I don’t have a vast longing for the stage.

Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

I like the good life too much, I’m not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

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

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

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.

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

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Stand-up is hard.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

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

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

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

The true measure of the value of any business leader and manager is performance.

And I love a scary movie. It makes your toes curl and it’s not you going through it.

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

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

I like Cardi B!

I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.

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.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

The tradition of the South is not urban… I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did not have the pleasures of the theater or the dance, motion pictures when they came along. We simply entertain each other by talking.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

As long as I stay in training and play well, I don’t see what objection there can be to what I do off the field.

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

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

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.

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