Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.
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.
I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd.
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.
Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn’t really be interesting to me.
In Hollywood you just fail upwards.
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.
If you’ve got a huge Hollywood star in your film, they’re getting $32 million, and everyone else gets their bus fare.
I’m not a big Hollywood guy. I don’t know how the machine works. I leave that to people better than myself.
I don’t think the competition’s so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out from the parade of models trying to make it in Hollywood, which helped launch my career beyond the one-night-stand horror movie.
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 truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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.
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.
I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids.
Hollywood studio executives don’t recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers.
I like sundresses with cowboy boots, little shorts with big wedge heels and a big piece of turquoise. I also love classic, Old Hollywood romantic styles. I’m ‘country girl meets city girl’ circa 1930.
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.
I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.
What I got which was unusual, especially as a child actress, was parents who believed that Hollywood was not that important. They told us education, family, health, all come first and they meant it.
The 1920s was the beginning of the media age. For the first time people were taking influences from the radio, Vogue and Hollywood.
In Hollywood if you’re good looking, tall, have okay teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you’re short and fat, it’s a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already.
I wouldn’t say Hollywood is anti-Republican, I certainly haven’t experienced that.
Hollywood will accept actresses playing ten years older, but actors can play ten years younger.
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.
After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn’t mine to begin with.
Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded.
Hollywood regency never goes out of style.
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.
And learn to tie a bow – it’s not difficult and there’s no excuse for either a clip-on or the hideous Hollywood straight tie.
The theme of old age doesn’t seem to fascinate Hollywood.
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.
As long as it is supported by Democratic politicians and by liberal Hollywood players, censorship is a useful tool to stifle dissent.
I like being in movies that have a great story. I’m not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It’s a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work.
Having that college experience and a social life that didn’t revolve around Hollywood was absolutely crucial.
I’m impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work.
People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it’s the least expensive to make them.
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.
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’m on the board of the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which is run by Dr. Stacy Smith – she conceived of the inclusion rider. What I love about the inclusion rider is it uses the fact that Hollywood is based on hierarchies, and it knows that these key players have persuasive power.
I feel like a survivor from an age that people no longer understand. I want to try to explain what the 1930s – the golden age of Hollywood – was truly like. People forget that America was such a different place then, not yet the dominant force in the world.
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.
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.
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.
In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you’re on ‘The Golden Girls.’ They age you so fast.
I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they’ll make another one.
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.
Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.
