I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy.
In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom.
I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.
Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
I’m still ambivalent about Hollywood. I think that’s why I made ‘Star 80.’ To deal with the ambivalence. I really wanted to succeed Gene Kelly, and I thought it was a fair bet.
One says also, it is one of the most faithful men in Hollywood, and makes again more interesting it equal.
I had a really negative look at the night-life side of Hollywood, which I really didn’t like. I went to New York to focus on modeling, and then of course found that New York was not any different from Los Angeles.
Prior to ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ – the first one in 2003 – I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I’m saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.
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.
You thought the stage, you thought Broadway: that was the pot at the end of the rainbow. The idea of being in Hollywood was like going to the Moon or Mars.
My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.
I’d rather deal with a Mob guy shaking hands on a deal than a Hollywood lawyer, who, the minute you get the contract signed, is trying to figure out how to screw you.
I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents’ friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.
I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollywood together. We were about four.
The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we’re going to DVD anyways. We’ve got that covered.
The Harvey Weinstein scandal was a clear indicator of the situation in Hollywood, and I cannot say that it doesn’t happen in Bollywood.
I don’t want to be in Terminator. I don’t want to go to Hollywood.
When I first landed at Pixar, I felt like I found this creative oasis with John Lasseter… It’s what you thought Hollywood was going to be.
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.
Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn’t suit my taste, so I thought, ‘OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.’ And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
I don’t think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
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.
You can’t write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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?
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn’t really have what you’d call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.
I want to be someone who is a great representation of a black woman in Hollywood, a black woman in the entertainment industry.
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?
Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.
At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia.
Every citizen in every country in the world now grows up in two nations. Their own and Hollywood.
I remained Ryan’s companion on the Hollywood party circuit, growing inured to sex and drugs before I was in my teens.
I believe that God felt sorry for actors so he created Hollywood to give them a place in the sun and a swimming pool. The price they had to pay was to surrender their talent.
There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.
I think my performance in ‘What’s Love Got to Do With It’ was powerful. I was so unafraid and confident. You know, it was the first mother of black Hollywood. I was Tina Turner’s mama. That’s what started it all. I had fallen in love right before that movie, and I had absolutely no fear in me.
The sexism in Hollywood is not particularly overt – because the system is good at hiding it.
Hollywood is like Picasso’s bathroom.
I tell you, I’m really not what you’d call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola.
Liberals in Hollywood can’t stand when Americans resonate to conservatives on television.
In Europe an actor is an artist. In Hollywood, if he isn’t working, he’s a bum.
Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.
I’ve sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn’t capture the characters.
I think a lot of African-American kids don’t have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you.
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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.
We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and put them in the Hollywood telephone directory and stacked those telephone directories up, we’d have a pile of telephone directories 70 miles high.
There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there… watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years… Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.
Hollywood comedy has gotten really silly and absurd, and I like that.
There is a bit of arrogance with ‘Hollywood’ types that doesn’t sit well with game developers.
I’m not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.
Hollywood has the idea that movies have to be dumb. But especially movies for or about teenagers have to be really dumb!
If you think of human experience as a pie, then the wedge Hollywood is reflecting now is getting smaller and smaller.
In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it’s passed around the world so quickly.
The ultimate dream is a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can’t understand it.
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.
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.
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.
Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
