John Cena Quotes

People think what you are doing is real, on a TV show.

I've always said it ain't 'Show Friends.' It's 'Show Business.'

I like entertaining people. I like being on stage. I like being in the life. This is what I do. This is the only thing I know how to do besides rob people and fight. Even when I was robbing people, I was entertaining them. But that's just what I love doing.

I love telling stories and acting and entertaining people. I don't want to make fun of people.

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

All I've ever wanted to do is entertain people - make them laugh, think, smile, feel creeped out or scared; whatever it is. I'm getting the opportunity to do that in various roles.

I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.

I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.

Always let them think of you as singing and dancing.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

There's no business like show business.

A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.

I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood.

Well, you know what they say in Hollywood - the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.

When I was 9 years old, I really wanted to be in the show business. I really wanted to be an artist. I would grab a wooden spoon and I would start singing, even if it was for my uncles and my aunts. And I would just sing any lah-lah song.

I'm not opposed to auditioning. I love auditioning. It's one of my favorite things.

I'm all for big production - I love putting on shows.

Since I was 18, I've been under orders from magazines and newspapers - chiefly The New York Times and Rolling Stone - to step into the lives of musicians, actors, and artists, and somehow find out who they really are underneath the mask they present to the public. But I didn't always succeed.

What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself.

I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

I think that being a producer is business and being an actor is art.