The week in quotes from Hollywood in the Hub

"It honestly came from me first saying I wanted to do a 'CHiPs' type of thing, being in a cop uniform and having authority and trying to be a bad ass."

--Kevin James spills while on the set of the made-in-Massachusetts film "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" at the Burlington Mall.

“It was historical from two points of view. Number one, it hadn’t been done before. It was an unprecedented opportunity to examine a former president about the central event of his presidency. And number two, it worked."

--Robert Zelnick, a journalism professor at Boston University's College of Communications, chats with the Boston Herald about his behind-the-scenes role orchestrating the historic interviews with British talk-show host David Frost and former president Richard Nixon which serves as inspiration for the film "Frost/Nixon."

"There is a woman that is murdered on a bridge. But that's all I can say, I can't give it all away!"

--Mark Hankey, an associate producer for the TNT pilot "Bunker Hill" starring NKOTB Donnie Wahlberg, tells the Daily Item in Lynn that the Charlestown-set pilot is based on the story of Charles Stuart, a Boston man who murdered his pregnant wife and inflamed racial tensions in 1989 after blaming a non-existent black suspect.

"He used to do the schedules in pen, but he did mine in pencil because I was always one step away from being taken out."

--Comedian Dane Cook jokes back in 2006 how his half-brother Darryl McCauley, who was arraigned in Woburn District court for embezzling $10 million since July 2007, was his manager at Burger King.

"There are only several famous actors in the business that can pull off this specific role and Madsen is one of them. I guarantee you if Michael Madsen is cast in the film you will see nothing less than a Oscar-worthy performance."

--Mike O'Dea, a Boston-based writer and actor who earned regional ink back in 2007 while shooting his low-budget flick "Townies," says that he's approached actor Michael Madsen's reps for the mob boss role of "Fitz" in the upcoming made-in-Boston flick "Code of Silence."