You think I’m going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

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.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

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.

When Jerry Springer thinks you’ve gone too far, my friends, you have gone too far.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

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

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’m sure everyone knows now that only a few have performed in Madison Square Garden. That list is so small. Now I’m on that list. I’m a part of a very small group, which is unbelievable. You relish in that moment for a second.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

A lot of people think I’m a comedian.

I want to show audiences I can act.

The movie business is a big gamble.

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

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.

My strong point, if I have a strong point, is performance. I always do more than I say. I always produce more than I promise.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

You see the film, you might be entertained, and if it’s not a great film, it loses its power very quickly. I think even simply acceptable books stay with us a lot longer.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

My shows are not narratives.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

It’s very intense to be in front of a live audience. It’s just an amazing experience. It’s dangerous. Everything out there is heightened. The bad stuff is extra-worse. The silences are extra-silent. The good stuff is amazing. It’s electric when you walk out there. For 90 minutes, you’re on this other planet.

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

There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.

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

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

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

It’s very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can’t imagine.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

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.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult acrobatic jump.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.

I used to rush home to see ‚Match Of The Day.‘ Whatever I was doing, I wouldn’t miss it.

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.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

I don’t get bored.

I know that if I had a television in my flat I would convince myself that everything on it was really interesting. I would say, ‚I’m a Celebrity – Get Me Out of Here!‘ is so sociologically fascinating that I think I’d better watch.

I’ve been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.

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.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

I’m not a film buff. I don’t watch a lot of movies.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

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

Much of everyday life is filled with opportunities to be distracted. Our possessions… entertainment… cares and anxieties… and even the passionate desire and pursuit of things, some good and not so good, can keep our minds and hearts caught up in a flurry of activity.

I didn’t have to win, and winning wasn’t important to me. Being world champion wasn’t important to me. What was important to me was entertaining the audience, and whether that meant winning, losing, singing, or whatever it was on the live show we were doing every week, which was awesome, I was game for it.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

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

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.

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

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

We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

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.

I was arrested for lip-syncing karaoke.

Sometimes a nickname is used instead of the real name. But a nickname may offend either the one named or the parents who gave the name.