Beverly Hills Quotes

The day before ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ opened, I was at a branch of my bank, and the teller asked me for two pieces of identification. Four days after it opened, I was being waved to on the freeway.

There have been things over the years that didn’t work. ‘Body Of Lies,’ directed by Ridley Scott, which I did with Russell Crowe and Leonardo DiCaprio, is a really tight action thriller, but when it opened in the U.S. it was number two to ‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua.’

Famous people come up to me, but I don’t know who they are because my sight is so bad. It’s always at the pool of the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills when I don’t have my lenses in and my glasses are in my room.

I’ve done the day jobs and slung towels at the Beverly Hills Hotel.

You can take the girl out of Beverly Hills, but you can’t take the Beverly Hills out of the girl.

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

I don’t know many artists who’ve come out of Beverly Hills, y’know? You need that struggle.

I said that in Beverly Hills, a woman going out to a party without makeup on is shocking. I was referring to women in Beverly Hills in general.

I’m not a Beverly Hills dude.

Don’t forget Mother’s Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad’s Third Wife Day.

I took my daily swim at the Beverly Hills Hotel pool despite the presence of onlookers.

In the house in Beverly Hills where our four children grew up, living conditions were a few thousand times improved over the old tenement on New York’s East 93rd Street we Marx Brothers called home.

I get my highlights touched up with Susan Henry at Shades in Beverly Hills. She developed hypo-allergenic hair color products with no ammonia because she’s allergic to others; she’s an incredible colorist. She does balayage instead of the foils, and I’ll go and she will do my entire head of highlights in an hour.

On the first season of ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,’ I was constantly uncomfortable with my eyes. It became annoying filming the show and having to turn away every few seconds and put drops in my eye.

Growing up in Beverly Hills, everyone was Jewish, and I always secretly wanted to be.

I thought my high school would either be like ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ or ‘Stand and Deliver’ – it was just a run-of-the-mill high school.

It dates back to my dad and my uncles. They all got permits to go to Beverly Hills High School back in the ’70s and early ’80s. After they finished college, they came back and became football coaches there. So I was there with a permit.

No one gave me a cake or a going-away party on my last day of ‘Beverly Hills 90210.’

I’m living in Beverly Hills. I’m very, very lucky. I wake up every morning and I recognize that I’m blessed.

My siblings and I, we were raised on TV and films. Not a day went by that we weren’t watching one of three movies – ‘Caddyshack,’ ‘Animal House,’ ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ – on rotation. Our comedy, our personalities were set watching ‘Sesame Street’: these really sort of wacky, Jim Henson-y characters.

The Beverly Hills Hotel is so iconic.

You know what Michael did? He got me the most fabulous place to live. If you read the tabloids, it’s the enclave of the enclave, Beverly Hills, which I have no idea what an enclave is. If it’s chic-chic, it’s cool.

In L.A., I love the L’Ermitage in Beverly Hills. Also, the Beverly Wilshire, where they make great huevos rancheros. I also love Shutters on the Beach, where I walk around everywhere in a bathrobe.

Celebrities, the beach, and Coachella, that’s what everyone thinks about when they think of Los Angeles. Then you see these people living in Bel-Air and Beverly Hills, and they’re so chic and have so much style.

We listened to ‘Beverly Hills.’ I wanted to maybe even do a real ‘Africa’-type version of that, I was thinking about for a minute.

I’m from Port Arthur, Texas! Little guy! Little character guy from one of the saddest oil-refinery towns in America. And here I was driving over to Beverly Hills, to 20th Century Fox, to be on ‘M*A*S*H!’

I’m just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we’re sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets me going, like, ‘What?’

I had almost three acres of land in Beverly Hills. And I had a big atrium of chickens because I love that feeling of being in the country and living from the soil.

In 1997, I decided to open a salon in Beverly Hills. At that time there were no products for eyebrows, so I developed a line.

In 2007, I went to work in Beverly Hills as an intern at The Collective, a talent management agency. I’d been scouted for the job because of a blog I’d started in college and because the blogger-turned-author I worked for, Tucker Max, was producing a project with the company.

I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting ‘Top Chef: Just Desserts,’ but when I have the chance to stay somewhere more luxurious, I love The Montage in Beverly Hills.

This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I’m not about to screw with it now.

I use the ‘Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow’ Palette every day. I’ve tried a bunch of stuff, but this is my favorite. For eyebrows, I use the ‘Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow’ Pomade in Dark Brown, and for mascara, I don’t use anything else but ‘Urban Decay Perversion’ Mascara.

I once attended a birthday party where Danny Kaye dropped in to entertain the birthday boy and his guests; I was sometimes taken for lunch on Saturdays by my father to The Brown Derby; and my favorite meal is still the Cobb salad in the Polo Lounge of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

I did not have a car in high school and neither did Angelina. Try to imagine. You go to Beverly Hills High, one of the wealthiest high schools in the nation. Even the cheapest car that anyone has is brand new. All my friends are well off. I have a movie-star father and no car. It was debilitating.

My presence in California will bring a new, inspiring culinary environment to life, and I’m delighted to share my creative techniques and evolving fresh ideas with the Beverly Hills community.

In Beverly Hills… they don’t throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

I can remember crying on the set of Beverly Hills 90210 after being released from the show a few years ago.

I paid my way through school doing set construction for film and television. I’m a member of Local 44. I was a construction coordinator on ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ for 4 1/2 years and ran their whole construction program. I did two other pilots as a coordinator for Aaron Spelling.

Being in a hotel room and watching ‘The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ is one of my great joys.

I tell people I went to ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ for high school, and everyone associates it with rich people, but you don’t have to be a rich kid to go there. It was weird – my parents didn’t raise me like that.

Beverly Hills is too intimidating. Everyone’s got lovely teeth, so you don’t want to smile. Everyone’s ripped, so you start working out at 4 in the morning and eating egg white omelets.

When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made ‘Rush Hour.’ And ‘Rush Hour’ really came out of the fact that I grew up watching ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ and ’48 Hrs.’

I attended first a military academy, then a public school in Beverly Hills, where we lived, and many of my classmates were the children of movie stars and studio executives.

There are more movie stars in the lobby of the Aquadulce than there are in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel.

It’s easy to look at South Central and say, ‘That’s a bad place,’ and it’s easy to look at Beverly Hills and say, ‘It will be a cakewalk,’ but it just exposed me to a different set of problems. Both sides relate to each other more than they think.

Julie Christie, I used to hang out with her. She was friends with Richard Pryor and Warren Beatty and all of them. There was a club in Beverly Hills called the Candy Store, a private club. I used to hang out with them all.

When I was a teenager, I used to watch ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ – which is totally aging myself – and I’d try to recreate the makeup that they did on Jennie Garth at home.

I did some commercials and a couple of B movies, then a few pilots that didn’t go anywhere. Eventually I did the pilot for Beverly Hills, 90210. The rest is history.

I’m still pulled over… We were nominated for two Oscars for ‘Monster’s Ball,’ and I almost didn’t make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.