In this post, you will find great Hollywood Quotes from famous people, such as Cameron Boyce, Liza Minnelli, Hattie McDaniel, Andre Benjamin, Anna May Wong. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star.
Winning is everything in Hollywood.
Working in Hollywood, it’s clear the more money you have, the more technology you can get. So you can build a whole Japanese set. Only in Hollywood!
There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.
I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I’m actually shocked that there isn’t more of a meld between our two industries.
Like it or not, I am part of the pop culture of films in Hollywood.
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It’s an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
I’ve always wanted to be like the Hollywood Golden Age actors.
When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded.
Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.
My grandmother and I would go see movies, and we’d come back to the apartment – we had a one-room apartment in Hollywood – and I would kind of lock myself in this little dressing room area with a cracked mirror on the door and act out what I had just seen.
I’ve never really had a relationship with Hollywood. I’ve never had a desire to work there.
In Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of anchoring the news right before Johnny Carson came on, so to see him, the Hollywood stars watched me first.
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.
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?
You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn’t know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood.
Practically everyone in Hollywood has a neighbor who’s been famous, wants to be famous, is famous, has been married to someone famous, worked with someone famous, slept with someone famous, been blackmailed by someone famous.
When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
It was the only ambition I ever had – not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage.
I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love… but then, it’s never really like the movies.
The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we’ve lost something, and we don’t know how to get it back.
I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
Every year, Hollywood is looking for that new, white leading man and new white starlet that audiences fall in love with. But they’re not looking for the next Denzel Washington, Will Smith or Sidney Poitier.
I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.
Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don’t want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That’s not really interesting for me.
I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took.
I don’t have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don’t owe you nothing, man. It’s what you owe the world.
At Pixar, we believe strongly that filmmakers should develop ideas they are passionate about. This may sound like a no-brainer, but in fact in Hollywood, the big movie studios have whole departments devoted to acquiring and developing projects that will only later be paired with a director-for-hire.
True friendships don’t fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.
In Hollywood – in Hollywood, you’re as good as your last picture.
My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it.
On the last couple of movies I made – big-budget Hollywood movies – I really missed being able to create my own material.
If Hollywood stars speak out, so do all sorts of other people. Now Hollywood stars can get a better hearing.
I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.
In Hollywood you always feel a bit like a hake. The publicists march people up and down in front of you and they interview you… You feel like the turbot and the sea-bream go by, and you’re the hake.
Hollywood is throwing action movies at me.
I’m not Hollywood. I’m a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
Training Day was such a Hollywood movie; I didn’t like it.
I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.
I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives – and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.
Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle.
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn’t working, he’s a bum.
I’m so sick of independent films being co-opted by Hollywood. You’re making a project that’s small, really personal, and the first thing anyone asks in any meeting is, ‘Who’s in it?’ I’m like, ‘Are you kidding?’
There are thousands of directors in Hollywood.
Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.
Frank Capra, Hollywood’s Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the ‘Saturday Evening Post’ covers of Norman Rockwell. ‘It’s A Wonderful Life,’ the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
Everyone in Hollywood who is successful becomes less successful at some point. I’m just trying to delay that fall for as long as I can.
We’re open people. I don’t understand these Hollywood people who don’t want to put their real life on TV, yet they want people to watch them and be fans with them.
For American filmmakers, the Oscars is like a mystic thing. For me, it was being in a mirror of my dreams when I was dreaming of Hollywood when I was an adolescent.
Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I’ve seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.
When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It’s sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.
But I think the thing I’m proud of about the film is that there aren’t many films – either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films – that are like this; it’s of its own times, and it’s the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.
Luckily, I was raised by people who’d already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn’t want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they’re the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.
A director in Hollywood in my time couldn’t do what he wanted to do.
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.
I’m fascinated by how Hollywood has changed since I started. Today it’s about immediate delivery. There’s less risk and less art.
I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don’t just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.
You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he’d be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn’t serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.
It’s funny… you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood’s looks? That’s like the one thing… the line you are not to cross.
I’ve tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don’t like it when people are deferential to me because I’m an established filmmaker. It’s a blue-collar sensibility.
And people are always saying: ‘Well, you go to Hollywood and you get yourself a film career or a TV series, and then you can do anything you want. Because then you’ve got the clout.’ That had always sounded like a lot of hooey to me, but now I think it’s true, unfortunately.
At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don’t grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn’t work, everyone will know.
I went to the University of Arizona. I stopped because I went there for two years and I felt like I experienced college or whatever. I’m over it. I like Hollywood better.
Many hated ‘Selma.’ Just because my voice and the voice of the people I come from is antithetical to so much of what Hollywood produces. I don’t think what I’m saying is in particular radical or anything; it’s just different from what they want to sell.
The 1920s was the beginning of the media age. For the first time people were taking influences from the radio, Vogue and Hollywood.
Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.
We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
Now I love LA, but there are a lot of weird aspects to Hollywood.
I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They’re all artists; they’re creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I’m not impressed with Hollywood.
I have no interest that I go to India or go to Hollywood or Bollywood. I’m not interested. I am a social media sensation. This is what I like.
Denzel Washington is a big Hollywood movie star now. But he started out as an actor in the Negro Ensemble company.
Why do we always have to see black people in hindsight? Why are the Hollywood movies always historical? What about the contemporary image of black people?
It’s a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you’re good at it, then they go, ‘How would you like to be a horrible actor?’ Then you say, ‘All right, that sounds good. I’ll do that.’
I personally have never made a movie in Hollywood, because I don’t want to get up in my own bed and then go to the movie set, and then come home at night to my real life.
In Hollywood today, it’s cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don’t get it.
I arrived in Hollywood and lived much of my life in America, but the fans did not really know me.
There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.
Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it’s up to us to try to change it… I feel like a preacher! But it’s really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He’s just the real deal. I’m captivated by him because there’s so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.
Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren’t, you left town and made up an excuse.
I don’t speak English, so I cannot foresee a career in Hollywood. But I do see myself more and more as an actress rather than a dancer.
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels‘ understanding of digital technology.
People are always saying that Hollywood messes up kids. I’m like, ‘No, families mess up kids!’ I grew up in Hollywood, and I’m perfectly fine. If my children want to go into the entertainment business, I won’t stop them, as long as they’re passionate about it.
I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.
I’m of course disillusioned with what has happened to World cinema. Now cinemas in both Eastern and Western Europe are filled with the same blockbusters from Hollywood.
Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.
I literally get up and get to do the one thing I dreamed about doing every day. And that is being a part of a television show and a radio show that is based in Hollywood.
I feel like Hollywood likes to use gay people to tell either really sad gay stories starring straight actors, or everything’s about a struggle. Everything’s about coming out. Nothing was about just living and breathing as a human being who happens to be gay.
I think that in Hollywood, it’s hard because so many people do turn out crazy. I don’t need to go out every night to get attention. I’m happy with the amount that I have.
No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn’t open well; they’re looking for the next person to replace you; it’s always something. You never have true peace.
I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies.
Hollywood constantly wants to label you and type you into a certain category, ‘Oh he’s a comedy guy,’ or the weirdo character guy or the villain.
I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.
Hollywood has a way of sucking the world’s talent to it.
An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
In Hollywood you just fail upwards.
You know when Hollywood does a great big blockbuster that really wraps you up in a world, and lets you believe in extraordinary things that move you in some way, in an almost operatic sensibility? That to me is the most fun I have at the movies.
I’m pretty unusual for an actress in Hollywood because I am totally unselfconscious about my body.
Hollywood’s got its own particular environment.
Hollywood regency never goes out of style.
I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.
The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I’ve always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I’ve cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
I don’t want to be the Hollywood girl… I’m Southern and old-fashioned.
Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.
If you’re conservative in Hollywood, you’re on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood.
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
As the entertainment industry became more corporate and MBA-driven, Harvey Weinstein remained an unreconstructed specimen of the worst and most compelling character traits of a truer Hollywood. Harvey, and in a sense only Harvey, continued to embody the Hollywood self.
Hollywood is an idea. It’s not a real place.
Throughout the day, I frequently use my iPhone to check ‘Deadline Hollywood’ and my Twitter feed, as well as the ‘Daily Beast,’ the ‘New York Times,’ ‘Metsblog,’ and ‘Thejetsblog.’
I don’t have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.
Hollywood is the place to be for actors – and there’s just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there’s less of them. I guess that’s just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean out of a jar of green ones it’d be amazing, but if you pick a green one, no one will care.
There’s something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.
No, I’m not a Republican working in Hollywood, I am a Democrat.
I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.
The Asian woman in Hollywood movies has usually been one of two extremes – totally submissive or totally ruthless. In either case her primary function has been decorative.
They had taken me to an exhibit called ‘Psychiatry: Industry of Death’ on Hollywood Boulevard, where a Scientologist told me psychiatrists set up the Holocaust. I feared I was being brain-washed. And then I lost it – big time.
It’s so nice after 10 years as a blond actress in Hollywood to have people let you do smart things.
Schizoaffective disorder is a big mental mash-up of a disease. It combines just about every disorder, from depression, delusions, and paranoia to mania, schizophrenia and hallucinations. My mother bounced between all of these regularly while raising me alone in our Hollywood home.
I crossed paths with a horse that happened to change my life. That horse is Game On Dude, and what a horse! He’s a soldier. Together we traveled the world. We won the Santa Anita Big Cap, Goodwood, almost won the Breeder’s Cup Classic; we won the San Antonio, Hollywood Gold Cup and the Californian.
I love old Hollywood. I love our early film culture.
I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don’t think it’s so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don’t want to do that.
‘LIFE Magazine’ decided to do a story about a young actress in Hollywood in 1954. And I made the cover. And I remember that the fellow who was doing the story on me said, ‘Listen, kid, I just want you to know, if Eisenhower gets a cold, you’re off the cover.’
Hollywood likes to put actors in boxes, and it likes to put Asian actors in really small boxes.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
It’s a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood.
I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn’t going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it’s the least expensive to make them.
You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don’t know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.
I have set up a production company and I am producing movies in Hollywood and that is going to be my focus.
The Oscars are like a political campaign. You have to have the right candidates, and the people in Hollywood know what they are.
You know, when you don’t go on TV and talk about how many women you sleep with, some people in Hollywood, that are supposedly ‘in the know,’ start whispering that you’re gay. If I were gay, I wouldn’t be ashamed to admit it, but I’m not.
‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.
In Hollywood, what they last saw you in is what you are. It’s hard to break away from that.
If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I’ll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.
I’m an actress. In this sense, my profession is less complex than that of a model. True, they’re into beauty in Hollywood, and it is age-related, but you can’t put a girl with hot lips and no wrinkles and say: ‘That’s the mother of a 14-year-old.’
Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.
I really don’t consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I’ve never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.
I think I’d want to see the Hollywood sign, that’s for sure. I’ve never seen that yet. And oh, please, please, please, can I go to Disneyland?
They spend an awful lot of money on I-don’t-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn’t get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
When we first started Marquis Jet back in 2001, one of our first goals was to try to break into the Hollywood marketplace. We thought it was a good way to help build brand credibility and attract new customers by word of mouth.
I’m a producer… I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it’s not lame. But it’s just like, how did that happen?
We do need more deaf people in Hollywood. But I don’t think that deaf people always have to play a deaf role. I think we can play different roles. We need to see more diversity period. More people of color. More disabled people. More gender diversity. All kinds of diversity.
Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I’m not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.
Even though I’ve done Hollywood films, I still don’t think of myself as a Hollywood actress.
I think Hollywood is so driven by money, the people who are making the decisions are not necessarily reflective of the melting pot, so what stories are you going to want to tell? You’re going to want to tell stories about yourself.
I was scouted at the age of 10 by a Hollywood agent. I was a really shy, geeky-looking thing, and started in the industry by doing ‘extra’ work on films.
Hollywood likes to label everyone so you’re easier to identify.
I never took to Hollywood.
I didn’t want to raise my child in Hollywood.
Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don’t go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.
I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.
As an only child, I embrace loneliness. Hollywood loneliness helped to understand Marilyn Monroe in a real way. I was able to portray her very well.
I just needed to leave Hollywood.
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
Because Chicago was to radio what Hollywood was to films and Broadway was to the theatre: it was the hub of radio.
I don’t champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.
Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn’t want to do.
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
I’m an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.
That’s one thing about Hollywood. People don’t always want what’s real. People always want a little more. So for me, it’s a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.
I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit.
I’ll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.
It’s my mission to get the New Zealand accent into a Hollywood show. I’m proud of the way we talk, and I’m here to represent it. Kiwis are everywhere: they’re in every city of the world. I’ve checked. We have a voice… it’s a bit of a funny one at times, but it’s one that I want to promote.
All of us have read the stories about young people in Hollywood and all the challenges they have to confront there, and I think that artistically, I really didn’t understand the commercial side of the film business, so I went back to a purely artistic setting.
Hollywood was born schizophrenic. For 75 years it has been both a town and a state of mind, an industry and an art form.
I wasn’t an actor. They they take the externals. Here I was, a kid thrown into Hollywood with a brand-new name, starring in motion pictures.
I don’t even take myself seriously, so how could I possibly take Hollywood seriously?
My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
Unfortunately my career began in Hollywood, doing a negative pickup for Universal pictures.
I had a scholarship to Stanford because I won three California Speech tournaments. Before I started Stanford, I told my mother I wanted to take a bus into Hollywood and see if I could get an agent.
I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
I’m sure those rumors are spread, but it’s just ah – we’re really good friend. We’ve been since day one in Hollywood. In class, we’ve been together in school. We’ve gotten really close, but I don’t know about the more than friends stuff.
I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.
I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.
I like the old, vintage Hollywood look.
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn’t find any in Hollywood.
Of course I danced a lot when I was making ‘Swingers.’ The swing music scene was big in Hollywood, and I went to places like The Derby. And, after I wrote it and was trying to get it made, I would go every week so I’d be good at dancing.
I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite.
Everything that happens on ‘Entourage‘ does happen in Hollywood.
Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren’t really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names – the products of a good publicity department.
Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
I’ve learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people’s hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems.
My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to Broadway and a friend of mine, Lauren Bacall, was in Hollywood filming with Humphrey Bogart. She told one of her producers I was great in my play, and he saw it and cast me in ‘The Strange Love of Martha Ivers’.
I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I’d have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.
I’m the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can’t ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.
You know, I’m not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood – particularly agents and managers – they’re all in a hurry.
After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn’t get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.
Hollywood usually guesses that extraterrestrials would only be interested in one of three things: (1) They want to breed with us, because their own reproductive machinery is on the blink; (2) They want Earth’s resources; or (3) They want the Earth. All of it.
Everybody wants the Hollywood glamour of the Premier League.
I was something that is always hated in Hollywood – a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know.
I remember my first thing was ‘CSI: Miami.’ I played a Cuban gangster. And that was it. I was like, ‘Wow, I don’t have to clean toilets.’ I could actually dress up and get paid equivalent to that. So that was my introduction into the Hollywood industry.
I am not even sure if I want to direct in Hollywood or India.
I didn’t come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
I’m often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I’m glad I didn’t go, because if I had I wouldn’t have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.
I do not want to name any individual names, but I felt like when I was working in Hollywood, there were some fellow colleagues of mine who didn’t even look me in the eyes because I was Asian.
If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult it all is.
Liberals in Hollywood can’t stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.
I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.
Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don’t feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
Hollywood as a whole has recently been made aware of the Negro’s true position in America and our responsibility toward the subject.
Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie.
Hollywood has an obligation to watch what they put out there. Kids do imitate what they see – good or bad.
You don’t want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.
Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn’t mine to begin with.
My focus isn’t Hollywood; my focus is using Hollywood as an example. Because what happens here does happen everywhere. It’s just a really concentrated and tense version here.
But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy.
There are no Hollywood stars speaking out for the elderly. They’re forgotten, bewildered, and I don’t think it’s because people are cruel or don’t care. It’s because you don’t want to think about your own mortality. I think people don’t talk about it enough.
There’s this perception sometimes around here that I’m this Hollywood guy.
I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.
I’ve played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
‘The Big Sleep’ is an unsentimental, surrealist excitement in which most of the men in Hollywood’s underworld are murdered and most of the women go for an honest but not unwilling private sleuth (Humphrey Bogart).
Rome is magic, it’s like being in Hollywood. But the difference between Hollywood and Rome is that here you don’t have just the movie business. The movie business is so little, so you also have the choice to hang out with people who do different kinds of business.
There couldn’t have been a better Hollywood ending for us. It’s beyond baseball. It’s rooting for your family.
I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.
Hollywood wouldn’t suit me. In L.A. it’s all about work – studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, ‘Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.’ You just feel very self-conscious there.
I’ve continued to always keep in mind having a healthy does of that in Hollywood, now that I am part of the system and obviously have to follow the way the system works – you still have to have that crazy determination.
We all tell our own stories the way we live our lives. My story is: Life is too short to not believe in fresh voices. I don’t have Hollywood stars. I have great American artists.
I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto‘s my home.
Hollywood has a longer pre-production period and they juggle shooting schedules more carefully for each cast. In Korea, we shoot day and night without much break.
New York’s like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it’s like a Fellini movie or something.
Hollywood today is all about being consistent. All thinking in mainstream film business takes place in one box.
But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.
If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
I don’t necessarily need Hollywood.
There’s always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what’s going to happen. You don’t know the story, but you know what they do.
I like stories that grow, that have unpredictable layers. As opposed to Hollywood movies that start out with a lot of shock and noise and peter out into an unconvincing cliche.
I consider myself a student of Hollywood.
My friends back from the East Coast jokingly call me ‘Hollywood,’ and they assume I’m out at Hollywood parties, but I’m a domesticated guy with 3 kids.
Hollywood is kind of a bad world.
It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself ‘give it 5 years, there’s no way I’ll be here after that if it doesn’t happen’. Cut to ten years later!
Some movies bring out the creativity in you. Every single audience member can become creative in the face of a particular movie. If you happen to like my films, it’s because my films provide a bed for you on which you can find your creativity. The Hollywood movies do not provide that for you.
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
I’m about as Baptist as you get in Hollywood.
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the ’30s and ’40s. Somehow they were less distracted about hardware, and more about production values and people, you know?
I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they’ll be in a totally different category. People won’t take them seriously. They’ll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.
Latinos are the fastest growing minority, and we’re obviously not going anywhere. We’re extremely loyal as a people, and I think Hollywood is starting to recognize that. It’s very rare for a major studio to nationally distribute a film with Latino talent, not only in front of the camera, but also behind the camera.
Madonna is her own Hollywood studio – a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops.
The Hollywood Film Awards were really stressful. It was the biggest press line I’d ever seen.
Anti-capitalism is nothing new in Hollywood. From ‘Wall-E’ to ‘Avatar,’ corporations are routinely depicted as evil. The contradiction of corporate-funded films denouncing corporations is an irony capitalism cannot just absorb, but thrive on. Yet this anti-capitalism is only allowed within limits.
I know when I’m working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities.
I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can’t understand it.
It’s funny – when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. It’s no coincidence these guys get in and get out.
My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a great place in the industry for himself and is still doing action movies at 64 years old. He’s my hero. I use him as a template. My middle kid, Liam, is named after him. He’s one of the coolest guys in Hollywood.
I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.
I don’t think I ever understood Hollywood.
For me, it’s not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.
I haven’t always been warmly welcomed for holding my conservative positions in Hollywood. Then again, I’ve never been very good at being politically correct either, on or off screen. So why start now?
I’m not a city kind of guy. I’m happiest when I’m tromping through the woods. That’s why I don’t live in Los Angeles. Being physically away from Hollywood probably loses me a few jobs, but the best ones seek me out.
The great thing for me about ‘The Resurrection of Gavin Stone’ is it’s a throwback to the old fashioned Hollywood movie that you can watch with your family, has a message, and is funny and entertaining. They didn’t call them faith-based movies; they just called them good movies.
Hollywood is a world all its own.
In my early days in Hollywood I tried to be economical. I designed my own clothes, much to my mother’s distress.
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood.
We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
When I was a teenager, my dad used to call me ‘Hollywood’ because I wore sunglasses all the time, even at night. Cue song.
I came to Hollywood and within a decade I was one of the biggest action stars of all time.
I’m the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
Every day I spend in Hollywood, I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck, and I cannot imagine making a film that way.
Well, you know what they say in Hollywood – the most important thing is being sincere, even if you have to fake it.
I don’t think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.
I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.
I originally started off as a healer before I came to Hollywood.
I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
I am Chinese. I speak fluent Mandarin. And I go, ‘Man, it’s about time a Chinese person could step up to a Hollywood screen, and international screen, and help save the world.’
Do you think I want to be the one lone voice against the Hollywood liberal establishment? It’s not going to do me any good.
Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.
I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows.
Well, in Bradford I could say I was brought up in Bradford and Hollywood.
I love to be creative and to put flesh onto the ideas that are inside of me. And there are not that many great programs that are coming out through Hollywood, and I’m tired of waiting around for someone to hand me a good script, so I’m going to go and produce something.
Abortion is a hard thing for Hollywood to deal with because it is so controversial and you don’t want to alienate half your audience by sending one message or the other.
If you go out to Hollywood you’ll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
Law students have taken over Hollywood. To them it’s all about making money. They know people want to see what they’ve seen before. Also, remakes are places to showcase the new stars of tomorrow.
I always think it’s really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
It’s only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity.
Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.
Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true.
LL Cool J is very well known in Hollywood. He’s an established commodity across several platforms, including motion pictures.
A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.
Broke is a Hollywood term!
In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don’t see very often in the press.
I don’t think there’s a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.
As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60’s and 70’s Italian and Spanish Horror films.
I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that’s what counts.
In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.
War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good… war sucks.
I’ve always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
I’m from really humble beginnings. I’ve never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you’re pretending to be.
There’s a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won’t ever be one.
Let’s be honest, I don’t think anyone ever wants to settle down in Hollywood – it’s a place you go to work. And once you’ve hit it, you get out of there as soon as you can. It’s definitely not a place you want to get married and have kids.
Hollywood’s just not funny.
Hollywood studio executives don’t recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.
People in Hollywood don’t have that much sex, or at least I don’t.
I’m not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we’re not fashionable anymore. We’re here to stay.
Hollywood usually doesn’t have strong woman in films like that, and it’s stupid, so for the most part they’re usually being directed and written by men.
You never see a teaser for a film on television that doesn’t have someone running around a corner with a gun. Have you noticed that?… I think Hollywood has as much responsibility for gun violence as the National Rifle Association.
As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.
I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I’d never move there. It’s very much an industry town and that doesn’t really interest me.
I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I’m ok with that because I’ve been able to do a lot. I started in the theater, then I went to stand-up comedy, and then when I went into the movies to do comedy and drama and big movies and small movies.
I wasn’t campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you’ve got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
Hollywood’s built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
Nothing looks as great on videotape as Hollywood after a rain.
Most movies suck, even the independent ones. Hollywood is like baseball: Hit three good ones out of 10 and you’re a Hall of Famer.
In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.
It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn’t think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.
I don’t find Hollywood interesting, so I’m thinking of studying architecture instead.
In Hollywood, marriages are kind of expected to fail.
The problem with most Hollywood movies is they don’t give the director enough control.
My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude.
When I first came to Hollywood, the blacklist was just starting, and they were having hearings in Washington. What most people don’t know is the judge of these hearings himself was later convicted of misappropriation. ‘Spartacus’ helped break the blacklist, because Spartacus was a real character.
I came out to Hollywood when I was just 18, and my dad, he was really into Hollywood and theater and art, and I guess growing up, he exposed me to a lot of culture, and I just started making Super-8 films in high school and decided I wanted to be a filmmaker.
I was a West Hollywood and Laurel Canyon girl for years, and it was so central that I felt like we’d moved to Portland when we came to Malibu, but now I can’t imagine living anywhere else. We have the best of all worlds, hilltop living, 15 minutes from town, with the beach at the bottom of the road.
If you’re doing an hour-long show, you’re working movie hours, doing a 12-15-hour day. We work three or four hours a day, and get every third or fourth week off to give the writers time to write. It’s the cushiest job in Hollywood.
Dreams are the foundation of Hollywood. And dreams are the foundation of America.
Our culture today that we live in is getting so diverse, yet in Hollywood, there’s not a lot of diversity.
I’m from Hollywood. That’s where we make movies and TV shows… I’m not from down here in men-fus ten-uh-see, okay?
I don’t want to be in Terminator. I don’t want to go to Hollywood.
You know, let’s put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn’t be a person left in town.
Don’t make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.
It’s nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.
If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling.
I don’t give a damn about Hollywood.
I think it’s even harder because I think as always, Hollywood is sort of glamour central for the world, and the entire world looks to it for not only entertainment, but the whole idea of the youth factor and youth being sold to our culture via young actors and actresses.
People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it’s great for New York and it’s also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it’s the best of both worlds.
Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I’ve never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn’t surprise me in some way, I simply can’t commit to the project.
I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, ‘There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.’ But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest.
I didn’t come to Hollywood to drink or get high, and I don’t want to be considered a cool actor – I want to be a great actor.
If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it’s at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.
That Hollywood ‘LotR’ movie really sucked, and was a true turn-off. That’s what Hollywood always does, even to good stories.
Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I’ve made one that’s actually about boxing and not a metaphor.
Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
As for Hollywood, there was an offer. But I declined to do it because of certain moral and ethical values.
For us, as actors, and even for the director, it gave us a sense of authenticity to what we were doing because we were talking about Hollywood and we were in Hollywood.
What’s the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.
I’m not a big Hollywood guy. I don’t know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.
There’s an old saying in Hollywood: It’s not the length of your film, it’s how you use it.
So that, to me, is important that audiences are treated with an amount of respect toward their intelligence. Most Hollywood films don’t respect their intelligence.
When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called ‘Project Hollywood 2004’ and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004.
If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
I never went to any of the Hollywood child parties.
The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that.
If you look round Hollywood there’s no end of white smiles and six packs. Long lines of beautiful people lining up to be incredible on film.
Hollywood is just like high school. The popular people only like the other popular people. And the thing is, some people aren’t nice – or they’re nice, but only to your face, not elsewhere.
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood.
I don’t think about Hollywood at all.
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let’s hope so. I’m not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let’s hope we’re looking at the insides of people a little more.
There are so many things I’d like to change in the industry. Everything from the reliance of style over substance to their reluctance to hire me for big budget blockbusters, but the thing I would love most would be if they understood people don’t have to be Hollywood beautiful to be sexy or interesting.
The average Hollywood film star‘s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
I came in on the tail end of the old school of Hollywood.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
I don’t think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go – not too often, but every now and then – to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.
People think that what I see diving must drive what I put into films, but that isn’t really the case. When I am making a Hollywood production, I am telling a different kind of story. Of course, if I see something interesting that works, we will look at it, but they are different things.
It can be a machine. The machine tries to make money and forget about the heart and the art. Hollywood is more about making money.
While some entertainment executives understand the power of having someone else speak for you, most Hollywood publicists don’t.
I think there’s a fine, healthy tradition of, you know, the people on the fringes satirizing the process of Hollywood.
I wouldn’t say Hollywood is anti-Republican, I certainly haven’t experienced that.
L.A. is so big that if you don’t actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
I remember when ‘The Right Stuff’ opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
It’s not just in Hollywood that women run the risk of being passed by once they reach 50. It happens in real life, too.
Even in Haiti, I saw John Wayne movies. American cinema has always been the dominant cinema throughout the world, and people tend to forget that. People aren’t just seeing these films in California or Florida. They’re seeing them in Haiti, in Congo, in France, in Italy and in Asia. That is the power of Hollywood.
English is my second language, but in Hong Kong, they don’t know that I’m from China. They think I’m from Hollywood because all the films they see are from here. China and Hong Kong are very different places, but they’re starting to merge. Still the culture is very different.
In my mind, I’ve always been an A-list Hollywood superstar. Y’all just didn’t know yet.
So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.
If you think of human experience as a pie, then the wedge Hollywood is reflecting now is getting smaller and smaller.
The only person who has artistic control is the director, and ‘director’ is how you spell God in Hollywood.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you’ll find the real tinsel underneath.
I think what destroys Hollywood marriages is our work schedule, not so much infidelity.
In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I’ve never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it’s still okay with me.
