Reilly Quotes

(answering a Chris Matthews question about why Hollywood actors sometimes presume to be sophisticated about politics) Everyone`s entitled to express their political beliefs. I don`t presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable telling people what my opinions are. But you have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world. You have Rush Limbaugh, was a radio disc jockey. Bill O`Reilly came from "Inside Edition" (1988). Michael Moore`s a filmmaker. Al Franken was on "Saturday Night Live" (1975). The line is increasingly blurred between news and entertainment. Secondarily, the media`s also shoving celebrities down our throats all the time. As a person, I`m much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they`re dating or what clothes they`re wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.

I`ve enjoyed doing Wolf Blitzer`s program, and I even enjoyed having a heated debate with Bill O`Reilly. I will do it any time.

Of all the characters I`ve played, I think I have more in common with that guy than with Reilly: Ace of Spies" (1983) (mini) referring to Carl Fitzgerald in Death in Brunswick (1991). Who Weekly (NZ) 8/23/93.

Well, what happened is that I had been the subject of vicious attacks by Bill O`Reilly and Rush Limbaugh.

Sometimes Bill O`Reilly would sometimes go after me every day, and this went on for the last couple of years, and I`m still standing.

O`Reilly continues to hide behind his microphone.

You can make an argument that Bill O`Reilly is a conservative or a Republican. Bill`s kind of unpredictable. Somebody might say that he would have been comfortable in the Democratic Party of Scoop Jackson.

The arguement in the O`Reilly injunction suit is postponed until the 3rd Monday in Oct. to give time to learn the grounds of the Kentucky decision.

He and Reilly met in a New York restaurant two years ago. "I was there with friends and I saw this amazing woman, who was giggling the whole evening at the table next to mine," Lotan recounts dryly. "She was there with friends. I went up to her and introduced myself, and apparently it worked."