Just in the past few years - since I've been making movies, which isn't a very long time - you now have a culture that is fascinated and informed about the box office in a way that sometimes filmmakers weren't even.
Today, you're either very big or you're playing stadiums or you're not playing anymore. You're either popular where everybody will go to a 20,000 seat arena to see you or they won't go to see you at all.
When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.
When something is not liked by people, you cannot make it run, however big actor or producer you may be. The audience has to make it a hit. The power is in the hands of the public.
It's a long road of paying your dues. Each and every person that's in this business has to go down that road. Some people may not have to. Some people may be given that road instantly because of who they are.
Acting has always been very boring to me. Anyone not in television to become a millionaire is a simpleton.
I'm grateful that I have a theater career because television isn't kind to you when you're over forty.
I'll be like Irving Berlin: "There's no business like show business."
I have no connection with Hollywood. I'm not interested. I don't care.
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
The film business has changed hugely. You seem to spend about 30 per cent of the time producing the films and 70 per cent talking about it.
I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I'm a Republican.
After making a lot more films, I realized that the movie and TV business is, for all its inefficiencies, one of the best-run big businesses we have.
Hollywood is just a bunch of people going around in Learjets to other people asking them if they've got any money? Well, they might have if they didn't spend it all on jets.
Winning 'American Idol' really anoints you the opportunity to have a great career; it does not anoint you a career.
I don't give a damn about Hollywood.
WWE prepares you for everything in entertainment. It's the truth. You need a host? Get a WWE Superstar. You need someone for an action movie, a comedy movie, a drama movie, you get a WWE Superstar. Because these guys are the most well-versed, well-trained, and hardest working guys out there.
I started out as a musician. Although I always wanted to have a dual career, I fell into the TV and movie business more strongly and more quickly.
Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.
This whole wrestling world is a different breed, there's no doubt.
I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
I'm not a part of the glamour industry. I would like to focus on my game, and there are minimal chances of me getting into films.
Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making money, which has gotten out of proportion.
I've never dreamt of being on TV; I had never tried to be in the entertainment business at all.
I studied everyone in the business of entertainment: Dr. Dre, Diddy, everyone. Rob Dyrdek was big for me. He would get 2 million views a week on 'Rob and Big,' and from that sprung everything: DC shoes, Monster Energy, 'Fantasy Factory,' everything.
