If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It’s really only to be heard when everyone’s out enjoying it.

Man, I really like Vegas.

Actor’s life is very long.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

When I was on TV in the ’80s, I wasn’t thinking, ‚There’s a 10-year-old kid watching this and in 15 years, he’s gonna be doing stuff that was influenced by me.‘ I was trying to get my five minutes together. So now that those people are comedians and they’re influenced by me – it’s bizarre.

I came to California and got signed at a young age. And it’s not like you see in the movies, where you start rubbing shoulders with Timbaland and Pharrell, and you become a giant pop star.

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

A film is sort of binary – it either works or it doesn’t work. It has nothing to do with how good a job you do. If you bring it up to an adequate level where the audience goes with the movie, then it works, that is all.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

I’ve seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

I’ve always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, ‚Hi,‘ that the people ought to get their money’s worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

There’s this lingering philosophy that movie stars shouldn’t do TV.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

At the major studios, you see people wanting to remake a TV series, wanting to make a sequel.

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

I don’t go to parties in general.

In California, they don’t throw their garbage away – they make it into TV shows.

You just wait. I’m going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

The dominant theory coming out of Hollywood is that peoples‘ attention spans are getting shorter and shorter and they need more stimulation.

I never called my work an ‚art‘. It’s part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

Too much TV hurts movies.

She’s a total professional, a diva, a mega-star, not just in music but in the entertainment industry. You always learn from the greats, and J.Lo is one.

I love making movies, but there’s nothing like performing live.

The future of American film lies on television.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

When I first started making ambient music, I was setting up systems using synthesizers that generated pulses more or less randomly. The end result is a kind of music that continuously changes. Of course, until computers came along, all I could actually present of that work was a piece of its output.

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

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.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

I think, first of all, I don’t think people understand Ice Cube’s body of work. Ice Cube is a, and I hate to use the word ‚urban‘ but – when you think of Judd Apatow, and a person who’s launched so many careers, Ice Cube has done that for so many comedians, you know?

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I’m doing new stuff all the time.

Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it.

I know I’m more on television, and I’m more recognisable than maybe even the players because they run and train, but I just stand there, and my face does all these funny things that everyone can see all the time.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.

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

I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense… I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.

I stopped watching TV because of ‚The Wire.‘ Like, ‚The Wire‘ ruined everything for me because I don’t even want to watch anything else now.

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‚Mr. Belvedere,‘ too. We stay in touch.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

I laugh all the time – at things, people, stuff, whatever. But, I don’t laugh onstage because then it’s serious business.

Film is a very tight little box. If you don’t fit in that box, you’re gone. Television, there’s more room to move around.

I’ve taken so many kids out of Pittsburgh and onto the great white way in New York City right into a Broadway show.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

When I got into this, I never thought about reviews. I never thought about what people would say about me, I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor, and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I don’t concern myself with award. I’d been to the party enough times to know it really didn’t matter.

I want to be an executive producer.

I’m just changing the game because I know what the fans want and the people want ‚cause I’m a fan of hip-hop.

What I like about Elvis is the same thing I like about James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince. These guys, back in the day, there was no smoke and mirrors. It was just raw talent. They would step out onstage and command an audience. Talk about awesome.

The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.