I’m not in the loop; I don’t know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

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.

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

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.

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

I now have two different audiences. There’s the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

With colleagues in the work environment, we fail to see the source of their envy or the reason for their manipulations; our attempts at influencing them are based on the assumptions that they want the same things as ourselves.

I’m always amazed by the people who work on stage who sing night after night, day after day, week in week out.

You hear about actors being late and all that sort of stuff, but you never find that with an actor who’s directed, because an actor who’s directed understands all the problems your production is going through.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

We want Facebook to be one of the best places people can go to learn how to build stuff. If you want to build a company, nothing better than jumping in and trying to build one. But Facebook is also great for entrepreneurs/hackers. If people want to come for a few years and move on and build something great, that’s something we’re proud of.

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.

I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they’re actresses or singers or things like that.

I want to be an executive producer.

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.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

Actor’s life is very long.

If you’re gonna make connections which are innovative… you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.

I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.

I’m not a natural joiner.

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.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

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

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

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 got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.

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.

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.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues – of my comrades in the movement – who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Because we’re actors we can pretend and fake it, but I’d rather the intimate investment was authentic.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

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

Actors are one family over the entire world.

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

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.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

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?

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

I love it when people say things to me in public and want to meet me, because I want to meet them! Early on, my manager told me, ‚If you want to sell 500,000 records, then go out there and meet 500,000 people.‘

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.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

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.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

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

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

I’m a big fan of Aamir Khan… Among actresses, I like Aishwarya Rai.

I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

I think the personal relationships I established mattered in terms of what I was able to get done. And I did bring women’s issues to the center of our foreign policy.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.