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

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

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

I always like to create things that get attention. It used to be a problem when I wasn’t famous. Now, I can do whatever I want and people have to accept it.

The future of American film lies on television.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

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 wanted a name I could shape the music towards. I was going to Miami quite a lot at the time, speaking a lot of Spanish with my friends from Cuba – ‚Lana Del Rey‘ reminded us of the glamour of the seaside. It sounded gorgeous coming off the tip of the tongue.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

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.

When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood – and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

I’m not in it for fame. I’ve been famous in the streets already.

To be famous, in fact, one has only to kill one’s landlady.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

I like to hide behind the characters I play. Despite the public perception, I am a very private person who has a hard time with the fame thing.

When in doubt tell the truth.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I absolutely believed when I was young because the Tooth Fairy was always good to me. The Tooth Fairy generally left me a dollar or two dollars and, as a kid, that was a lot of money.

As president, you can get all kinds of advice from all kinds of people. But at the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values and your vision and the life experiences that make you who you are.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

I seen a lot of artists be hot for a minute, and then that’s it, and somebody else come in.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

My parents taught me service – not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

We’ve got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly human goal.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

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?

You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don’t want my kids to just focus on being black. They are people. I don’t want them to judge other people or to be judged. I want them to be good people, so good people will treat them accordingly. I preach that to my kids and everything else falls into place.

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?

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

It is no surprise that animation is Hollywood’s most successful and innovative genre.

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

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

I want to be an executive producer.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

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.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

I had a lot of resistance, and not just to fame. I was always conscious of not changing.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

Michelle Pfeiffer hasn’t been finding a lot of work recently because she doesn’t like what a woman her age is offered. That’s a real double standard. You get Sean Connery, who gets older and older, still playing opposite young ladies, but it doesn’t work the other way around.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.