Jack Valenti Quotes

Entertainment is one of America's greatest exports. And the stories that we tell about people inform the world about how to think about people.

Being a part of the WWE, I am blessed to have a platform both on social media and TV, with that platform I am able to spread my message and share my story.

Hollywood is very divisive.

Yes, the Obama administration has and will continue to use Hollywood and the entertainment industry to push its agenda.

Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.

History is replete with proofs, from Cato the Elder to Kennedy the Younger, that if you scratch a statesman you find an actor, but it is becoming harder and harder, in our time, to tell government from show business.

Although early on, I did not think of showbiz, I dreamed of being on TV and becoming a celebrity.

I've always said it ain't 'Show Friends.' It's 'Show Business.'

I think Hollywood is an incredible tool to teach people. It brings stories and information to the television screen, to the movie theater screens, that people get to empathize with.

Putin has this ritual of having the televised meetings with ministers. Cameras will be allowed in to film the first five minutes of a meeting that is conducted entirely for the cameras. We don't even know whether the meeting then goes on.

Film and television are major vehicles for American storytelling, and America is the biggest exporter and influencer in the world in terms of telling stories.

For me, Michael Jackson was a star. Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan are stars. They are the ones who own and carry stardom.

Actresses have always been in a position of power.

I was offered a lot of reality shows in the past. I continue to be offered things like 'The Surreal Life.' I did one in 2002, right after the attacks on the World Train Center. It was called 'Celebrity Bootcamp.' It sounded exciting and cool when they presented it. When you get down to it, it was corny and cheesy.

For someone like me, making a documentary - I don't kid myself. There's no influence at all. What I do is entertainment. I would even say much the same about the column I write in 'The Sunday Times.'

When you look at the media and television, and all this Hollywood stuff, you just judge people.

Jackass millionaires, hey, hey, Hollywood, here we come.

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Celebrities are the doormats to power.

The truth is, everything we know about America, everything Americans come to know about being American, isn't from the news. I live there. We don't go home at the end of the day and think, "Well, I really know who I am now because the Wall Street Journal says that the Stock Exchange closed at this many points." What we know about how to be who we are comes from stories. It comes from the novels, the movies, the fashion magazines. It comes from popular culture.

Tom Hanks is a huge superstar. And people tell me he's a very nice guy, not arrogant, not an entitlement guy. But very quietly, Mr. Hanks has become a left-wing power player in Hollywood.

I'm just in work mode, and that prevents me from going into the Hollywood starlet mode, I suppose.

In its heyday, Hollywood reflected, if it did not actually produce, the sexual climate of our land.