In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

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

I had three points I wanted to make: That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of the promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who’s not doing a good job. But I didn’t make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it.

I didn’t come to Hollywood. Hollywood came to me. A lot of people wish they could say the things I say. Everyone out here is so phony, it’s sickening.

Remember that before ‚Roe v. Wade‘ was decided, there were four states that allowed abortion in the first trimester if that’s what the woman sought: New York, Hawaii, California, Alaska. Other states were shifting. And people were fighting over this issue in state legislatures.

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.

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.

We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.

I don’t like Los Angeles. The people are awful and terribly shallow, and everybody wants to be famous but nobody wants to play the game. I’m from New York. I will kill to get what I need.

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.

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

It’s nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren’t the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

I suppose I am reluctant about being any sort of ‚star‘ and I didn’t particularly want to be portrayed as one.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

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.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Meryl Streep is exactly as awesome as you would imagine Meryl Streep to be.

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

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

Too much TV hurts movies.

In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hairdo.

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

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?

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

The future of American film lies on television.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

I live in Hollywood, but you can’t make me love Hollywood. I’ll never love Hollywood.

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

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.

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.

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

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

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

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

I can promise you that when I go to Sacramento, I will pump up Sacramento.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

I have no use for people who throw their weight around as celebrities, or for those who fawn over you just because you are famous.

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.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.

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

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.

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

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

California is not just the Golden State. We are also the Internet State.

I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions.

I’d done a lot of research in Hollywood and in academia. I love research and so I wanted to kind of ground the book in history, in things that I read that were universal and timeless and then kind of let my own experiences sort of filter through all of this history.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

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.

There is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.

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

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

I believe in that old adage that ‚as goes California, so goes the country.‘

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

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.