Mekhi Phifer Quotes

I was so flattered to be asked to be in the movies - the idea of being paid to act was heady stuff.

By the time May rolls around, I'm probably going to want to spend a month on an island. But if Steven Spielberg or Steven Soderbergh or any number of directors were to say 'Hey, there's this role, are you interested?' I'd be there in a flash.

And I'm hoping that over the next 20, 50 years, whatever, the mystique of television and film and all that will diminish somewhat, and people will leave us alone to get on with our jobs.

But it's a strange thing when people judge you because you're not doing some big Hollywood film. Are you suggesting I should be in 'The Dukes of Hazzard?' I mean, hello?

Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up.

Bollywood gives you an immense reach. The stars have a huge fan base. The amount spent on promoting a film is incredible. To be part of such productions, in some way or the other, is a blessing for any artiste.

If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be?

Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.

I auditioned for 'American Sniper' and didn't get a role.

I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're just women, you know.

During the Sixties, the Americans thought I was the greatest thing in the history of cinema.

The newspapers and magazines, the theaters and the social reform movements, are more and more made for a public which looks only to be entertained and which has lost the power of sustained attention.

I think Hollywood acts like followers of culture and is constantly seeking to follow trends.

Ja Rule not doing '2 Fast 2 Furious' changed Ludacris's life.

LL Cool J is very well known in Hollywood. He's an established commodity across several platforms, including motion pictures.

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

Like every Aussie actor, I'd rather be working here; it's just we've all been forced to go to the States. Business-wise, as an actor, it's more lucrative, and there's also a lot more of it there.

Obviously, if you get a chance to be in Alexander Payne's movie, you're going to go for it, or you'd be a crazy person.

I turned down 'American Gigolo.' There are many films - like 'Ghostbusters' - that I turned down... The first one I did was 'Foul Play' with Goldie Hawn, but I turned down 'Animal House' - I turned that down.

I'm the same way with the media as I am to everyone else.

My primary focus will be Malayalam films. I will choose from what comes my way and take a call irrespective of the language.

I am the last person who has any judgement about any kind of cinema, least of all commercial cinema because I am a product of commercial cinema.

Honestly, I don't think we see ourselves as stars. That's what the media tags us as. I personally don't think too much about it.

I started doing American films and TV before Priyanka, but of course I do small roles in big films, and I don't have the publicity machine working around me.

Mr. Obama is particularly well positioned to challenge Hollywood because of his special relationship with the media world's elites. They might be more likely to heed criticism coming from Mr. Obama than from any other president or member of Congress.