Michael Wolff Quotes

My closest friends are Roger Moore, who is an actor, Sean Connery, who is an actor, Terry O'Neill, who is a photographer, Johnny Gold, who was the boss of Tramp, and Leslie Bricusse, who is a composer.

When I first got out to Hollywood, they were pushing me for sitcoms, and I didn't really have an interest in them. I wanted to do films and slowly worked that way. And then it became, I guess, this curse of the leading man.

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years.

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

I never thought about the actors on television or film, like what kind of life they had.

Jerry Bruckheimer has made millions of dollars producing propaganda.

Hollywood ... proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic d’marche.

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

Hollywood is very divisive.

I like to say that Hollywood is one of the most democratic entities in the world and the reason why is every ticket is a vote.

If Hollywood and Bollywood were how we all lived our lives, that would surprise me. And yet it's often the way our cultures are conveyed, isn't it?

We're making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.

I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.

I believe Hollywood is the most effective and disastrous propaganda factory there has ever been in the history of human beings.

Hollywood is owned by the Arabs.

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

My agent at the time, Mike Medavoy, before he became a movie mogul, called me up and said, how about a movie with you and Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman? And I said, well, what makes you think of that? He said because I now handle you and Peter Marty.

Hollywood's a great place to live... if you're a grapefruit.

If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.

Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on... mass murderers.

[On Hollywood:] America's greatest achievement.

Hollywood is Hollywood. There’s nothing you can say about it that isn’t true, good or bad. And if you get into it, you have no right to be bitter — you’re the one who sat down, and joined the game.

The media can't take Trump out, and that scares the heck out of everybody, particularly in the Republican side.

California is like the Mecca of the film industry. Everyone's seen California.

You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner.