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.

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

We can be civil. We can still be friends, and be Democrats and Republicans, and have different views.

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

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.

Obama’s policies have been approximately the same as Bush’s, though there have been some slight differences, but that’s not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush’s policies.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

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

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

I was born to play Hercules. I have loved and honored the mythology over the years – since I was a kid. When I first broke into Hollywood, ‚Hercules‘ was one of the movies that I – not chased, because I didn’t have the power to chase anything – but always had in the back of my mind.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.

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

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

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.

It was 1996 and I was at a crossroads in my career. I had been working in Hollywood as a writer and was very unhappy. I had pitched an idea for a book some six months earlier, and the book packager, Joost Elffers, wanted me to write up a treatment for it.

I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.

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

In the past when I was in Hollywood, I was like a dog. I felt humiliated. My English was not good. People would even ask me ‚Jackie Who?‘.

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

In Los Angeles, everyone is a star.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

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.

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.

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

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

I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.

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

There are no record companies in Waikiki.

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.

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.

Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood.

I will not play just an evil part. In fact, I got offered $7 million several years ago to play the part that Faye Dunaway played in ‚Supergirl.‘ I was kind of insulted. I was impressed with the money, but I said, ‚Why are you asking me to play an evil witch? Do I come across as an evil witch to you?‘

The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can’t get out the vote in the midterm elections.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It’s the other way around. They never vote for us.

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

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

A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind – the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

Dakota Fanning is a child, but she is a wonderful actor. I don’t know what a child actor is. She’s an actor who’s a child.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.

Too much TV hurts movies.

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

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.

I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.

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

It’s no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

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

I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‚There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.‘ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.

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

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?