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

The future of American film lies on television.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

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

The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

What’s so beautiful about Miami is that we support each other. We’re just one big family, not just the entertainers, just everyone in general.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

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.

Streaming is a really big market for me. We’ve been doing great in the streaming market, so it’s not something I want to alienate at all. Streaming counts now. They’re treating artists the way we deserve to be treated.

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

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

I want to be an executive producer.

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

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.

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

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.

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.

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.

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.

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.

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

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

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.

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

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.

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

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.

A lot of dumb pictures have made a lot of money, but that doesn’t mean they’re going to be anything cinema students will revel over in the future.

I wanna thank MTV and the VMAs for choosing me to be a part of the show because, on this show, if you not an icon or upcomin‘ icon, you’re not on the show, you know?

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

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

Good men must not obey the laws too well.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

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

I’m already the face of the UFC, plus the face of boxing, WWE, and Hollywood.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Actor’s life is very long.

One of the reasons I connect to the Super Bowl is that I approach my shows like an athlete.

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

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

In Hollywood, a lot of times when something is in development, it just takes a lot of time.

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

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

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

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’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.

There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it.

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 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.