Top 620 Hollywood Quotes

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 am not a Hollywood Jew and I won’t ever be one.

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.

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.

I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy.

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.

There’s a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I’ve said this before: Hollywood’s not a place where you’re rewarded for growing up.

In Hollywood, she’s revered, she gets nominated for Oscars, but I’ve never heard anyone in the public or among my friends say, ‘Oh, I love Winona Ryder.’

At the time I came along, Hollywood’s idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!

They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, ‘But doesn’t it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn’t it be set in New Guinea?’ And you say, ‘But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.’

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract.

Generally I don’t like doing remakes, but I think that’s more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people’s minds, but to me, it’s just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It’s all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it’s over. That’s Hollywood.

I know it’s a film and all of that, and it’s a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you’re in pain and it hurts, and you’re desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it’s so seductive and you just do… and all that.

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.

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.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That’s what our purpose is in this business. You’re merchandised, you’re a product. You’re sold and it’s based on sex. But that’s okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded.

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.

After I got to Hollywood, I resented that I didn’t get a crack at more dramatic roles because I photographed so beautifully.

Tarantino’s stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood.

I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?

For some reason, Hollywood seems to have painted me as a gorgeous vixen at times or the sweet girl.

How did I get to Hollywood? By train.

I’m the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

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.

The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That’s my dream, to make such a German film.

I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood.

Now I love LA, but there are a lot of weird aspects to Hollywood.

Hollywood as a whole has recently been made aware of the Negro’s true position in America and our responsibility toward the subject.

There’s something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

I don’t necessarily need Hollywood.

I think everybody else in Hollywood, including network execs, has the opportunity to ask for a raise or a change in scenery in a much shorter time frame than actors. But I do think the networks have to protect themselves.

Providing ‘freemium’ cloud storage to society is not a crime. What will Hollywood do when smartphones and tablets can wirelessly transfer a movie file within milliseconds?

National film industries tend to move in cycles. In Australia right now, we’re on a high, a feeling of potential, which as yet shows no sign of flagging. But the word ‘industry’ is misleading. A small national cinema has no industry in the Hollywood sense.

Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

I’ll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.

In Hollywood they’re getting younger, but believe me, it’s not the food. It’s the plastic surgery.

I got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn’t take it seriously any longer.

I worked in Hollywood as a reader and a would-be writer for about 6 years before I sold my first story.

I didn’t want to just work within Hollywood when I started a production company. I wanted to be able to collaborate with great artists from all over the world.

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 was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.

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.

I’ll probably not be the best actor in Hollywood, and I am okay with that. But I will be the hardest working one, and I’ll be the one that people like to work with because I show up on time, and I don’t complain.

True friendships don’t fade in Hollywood, as so many myths about show business would have you insist.

Winning is everything in Hollywood.

I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.

In Hollywood you can see things at night that are fast enough to be in the Olympics in the day time.

I don’t find Hollywood interesting, so I’m thinking of studying architecture instead.

My favourite actor is Daniel Day Lewis. He’s the finest actor in Hollywood. I’ve studied his performances.

The only person who has artistic control is the director, and ‘director’ is how you spell God in Hollywood.

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.

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.

Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I’d like to find it one day… If I want to go out and have a good time, I go to New York.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

It doesn’t matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don’t think he’ll raise it out of the New York people, I don’t think he’s going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where’s the money going to come from for Barack Obama?